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Melanistic Buck - been waiting to share this with y'all!
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09/07/17 05:42 PM
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Son of a Blitch
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This is a picture of a melanistic whitetail buck I harvested on Nov. 11, 2016 at my family's ranch in Central Texas. I have been waiting to share this picture and story with y'all for the last 10 months! I wrote an article about "Black Beauty," as we called him, and the article was just published in Quality Whitetails magazine this month (QDMA's magazine). I gave them first right's to the story, so I had to keep this private until the magazine came out. I have a copy of the article on my website. Feel free to check it out when you get a chance if you want to check out the full story: http://www.mapmyranch.com/black-beauty.html ~George Blitch
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Re: Melanistic Buck - been waiting to share this with y'all!
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09/07/17 05:47 PM
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Re: Melanistic Buck - been waiting to share this with y'all!
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09/07/17 05:48 PM
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Re: Melanistic Buck - been waiting to share this with y'all!
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09/07/17 05:52 PM
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Re: Melanistic Buck - been waiting to share this with y'all!
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09/07/17 06:02 PM
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That's awesome! Thanks for sharing. Here's hoping his offspring display the same coloration.
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Re: Melanistic Buck - been waiting to share this with y'all!
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09/07/17 06:37 PM
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Very cool deer. Great pic of it in your link.
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Re: Melanistic Buck - been waiting to share this with y'all!
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09/07/17 06:43 PM
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Thanks for sharing. Great story and awesome buck!
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Re: Melanistic Buck - been waiting to share this with y'all!
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09/07/17 07:08 PM
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Thanks for sharing. Great story and awesome buck! X2
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Re: Melanistic Buck - been waiting to share this with y'all!
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09/07/17 07:14 PM
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Re: Melanistic Buck - been waiting to share this with y'all!
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09/07/17 07:26 PM
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Great story, and an awesome buck sir!
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Re: Melanistic Buck - been waiting to share this with y'all!
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09/07/17 07:30 PM
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Great story, and an awesome buck sir!
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Re: Melanistic Buck - been waiting to share this with y'all!
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09/07/17 07:49 PM
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That's one hell of a trophy. Good job and congrats.
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Re: Melanistic Buck - been waiting to share this with y'all!
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09/07/17 08:03 PM
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What kind of mount did you get? Full body?
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Re: Melanistic Buck - been waiting to share this with y'all!
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09/07/17 08:11 PM
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Thanks for sharing. Great story and awesome buck! X2 Amazing looking buck...
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Re: Melanistic Buck - been waiting to share this with y'all!
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09/07/17 08:19 PM
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Thanks, everyone. It has been a very special journey for the first day I saw him to putting out the story and pics. Glad to finally be able to share it with y'all. I got a shoulder mount done. Will post some pics tomorrow. Got it back and it turned out great! Also, in the printed article from Quality Whitetails, there is a subsection that discusses melanistic deer. I've cut and pasted it here to check out. Cool info:
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Re: Melanistic Buck - been waiting to share this with y'all!
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09/07/17 08:21 PM
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Fantastic story and buck. That is a true trophy! I did the same thing last year with hunting one single specific deer...it's truly satisfying to get the One you are after. Congrats!
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Re: Melanistic Buck - been waiting to share this with y'all!
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09/07/17 10:50 PM
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Thats the biggest one I have ever seen. We have a few but a 6 point is the largest we have seen. Yours is almost beyond belief, great story and trophy.
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Re: Melanistic Buck - been waiting to share this with y'all!
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09/08/17 12:06 AM
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Fantastic buck. One of the better racks I have seen on a melanistic buck.
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Re: Melanistic Buck - been waiting to share this with y'all!
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09/08/17 12:21 AM
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Thats probably the best melanistic buck I have seen. I see several a year around here but they never seem to amount to much.
Congrats
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Re: Melanistic Buck - been waiting to share this with y'all!
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09/08/17 12:23 AM
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Great article. Congrats on a once-in-a-lifetime buck. What are the odds he sired another melanistic whitetail?
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Re: Melanistic Buck - been waiting to share this with y'all!
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09/08/17 02:18 AM
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What kind of mount did you get? Full body? yup, I wana see the mount! Also was his left ear messed up? Regardless he's an amazing deer!
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Re: Melanistic Buck - been waiting to share this with y'all!
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09/08/17 11:54 AM
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Re: Melanistic Buck - been waiting to share this with y'all!
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09/08/17 12:46 PM
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awesome buck and story. Really enjoyed it. Congrats on an awesome buck!!!
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Re: Melanistic Buck - been waiting to share this with y'all!
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09/08/17 03:21 PM
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That is cool. I've seen a bunch of piebald deer and one albino, but never a melanistic deer.
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Re: Melanistic Buck - been waiting to share this with y'all!
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09/08/17 03:38 PM
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