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Albinos Abound!
Awesome photos of albino deer, bears, elk and moose sent in from our readers.
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If I was in the woods, having done everything properly and called one of these big guys into shooting range, I would not hesitate to make the shot. Albinism is actually a genetic weakness so taking the trophy would not harm the gene pool and in some ways might strengthen it. Either of these bulls are impressive and "white or not" would be worthy of bragging rights. I remember when I was in early teens, that one of the local hardware stores (where you bought your hunting guns and ammo) had a standing offer of a free "top quality" shotgun for two categories in ringneck pheasants: longest tailfeather....and albino. When hunting, regardless of the species, an albino harvest is probably a once in a lifetime opportunity and most will never even experience the opportunity.
Note: my post was about the albino elk. If indeed they are "NOT" in middle of huge protected area with little or no natural predators where no hunting is permitted, the "hunt", the "stalk", the "calling to within shooting range" would be extremely impressive as these two obviously have beaten considerable odds to reach their current proportions without the advantage of being able to blend into the surroundings like their normal kin; they would be more wary and less likely to be lured in by normal hunting practices.
I say this tongue in cheek because its possible the photographer got these shots in middle of a huge protected area where it was easy to get within camera range because the elk were already acclimated to close proximity to humans. The captions on the photos were non-committal to the location of where the photos were taken.
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If I was in the woods, having done everything properly and called one of these big guys into shooting range, I would not hesitate to make the shot. Albinism is actually a genetic weakness so taking the trophy would not harm the gene pool and in some ways might strengthen it. Either of these bulls are impressive and "white or not" would be worthy of bragging rights. I remember when I was in early teens, that one of the local hardware stores (where you bought your hunting guns and ammo) had a standing offer of a free "top quality" shotgun for two categories in ringneck pheasants: longest tailfeather....and albino. When hunting, regardless of the species, an albino harvest is probably a once in a lifetime opportunity and most will never even experience the opportunity.
Note: my post was about the albino elk. If indeed they are "NOT" in middle of huge protected area with little or no natural predators where no hunting is permitted, the "hunt", the "stalk", the "calling to within shooting range" would be extremely impressive as these two obviously have beaten considerable odds to reach their current proportions without the advantage of being able to blend into the surroundings like their normal kin; they would be more wary and less likely to be lured in by normal hunting practices.
I say this tongue in cheek because its possible the photographer got these shots in middle of a huge protected area where it was easy to get within camera range because the elk were already acclimated to close proximity to humans. The captions on the photos were non-committal to the location of where the photos were taken.
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