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?