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Re: Post your Albino/Piebald/Melanistic!

Posted: October 14th, 2010, 4:58 pm
by BucksNBuffalo
BamaK wrote:Hope this works.... is this one??? :geek: Image

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BamaK,

I noticed something on your buck there and looked around, and I hate to say that is NOT a melanistic :( . First giveaway as you can see in your picture is the white throatpatch. A melanistic deer has no throatpatch whatsoever. Second, I looked around in your recent hunts and saw no notataion of any BT, Mule Deer, or WT bucks being melanistic. By notation, I mean as noted next to the animal on the statistics screen. You'd knw for sure then. FInally, I have killed numerous ones of that color varaiant, so that is basically just another BT deer, but why it is on the darker side is odd. New color variation? Can a dev please shed some light here?

Re: Post your Albino/Piebald/Melanistic!

Posted: October 14th, 2010, 5:56 pm
by NAOutdoors
Any time you are unsure with the darker colored Blacktails you can check your statistics and if it is a Melanistic (albino & piebald also) it will say so next to it.

Re: Post your Albino/Piebald/Melanistic!

Posted: October 14th, 2010, 5:58 pm
by Cireme
BuckBeast wrote:where in the world did you find this?
It's simple. This is the new common whitetail male portrait:

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And this is his URL:

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http://gubbengoman.thehunter.com/static/img/statistics/animals/whitetail_deer/whitetail_deer_male_common.jpg
Replace whitetail_deer by mule_deer, roosevelt_elk or blacktail_deer, and common by albino, piebald or melanistic. Tadaaam.

Re: Post your Albino/Piebald!

Posted: October 14th, 2010, 5:58 pm
by Mrlex13
DereFonzie wrote: Also, if EW are listening: Having some Melanistic deer would be great! :D

And some albino birds wouldn't go amiss either :)
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Golden Pheasant
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Pheasant

Re: Post your Albino/Piebald/Melanistic!

Posted: October 14th, 2010, 8:06 pm
by BamaK
Thanks Buck and NA.... i didnt think to look at the last hunt stats..... "after further review" it did not say anything other than , you killed a BT buck...... Rats!!! :D

Re: Post your Albino/Piebald/Melanistic!

Posted: October 14th, 2010, 9:36 pm
by DereFonzie
I love golden pheasant, theyre one of my fav birds :D

Im not sure if they are ever hunted though :? , but I havent looked into it at all.

Re: Post your Albino/Piebald/Melanistic!

Posted: October 15th, 2010, 1:33 am
by BucksNBuffalo
Well, the way I see it overall is this: I'm very, very happy to finally see Piebalds and Melanistics in the game. We have asked for this for a very long time, and I'm glad EW decided to include them. Now, what makes it really cool is with the deer species you really never know what you're gonna get. Might hear a doe call, and now you'll be wanting to see it because you never know if it's actually a rare deer! Great job and thanks Devs!

Re: Post your Albino/Piebald/Melanistic!

Posted: October 15th, 2010, 9:12 am
by Wishmaster3
Looks like they have increased the number of "rare" animals. I've found my first albino Blacktail Buck yesterday...wasn't able to take him down, but at least to capture him on video:

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Re: Post your Albino/Piebald/Melanistic!

Posted: October 15th, 2010, 9:21 am
by outrider
Wishmaster3 wrote:Looks like they have increased the number of "rare" animals. I've found my first albino Blacktail Buck yesterday...wasn't able to take him down, but at least to capture him on video:

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nice vid,...yep, you wait a second to long, ...and their gone................................ :D

Re: Post your Albino/Piebald/Melanistic!

Posted: October 15th, 2010, 9:23 am
by Harbard
Ha, you could have taken a shot there, thanks for sharing the vid instead though :D