Would you shoot this deer in New York? I know it has antlers/horns but no way does it look like a Whitetail Deer. Elk, Moose, and Goats have antlers/horns but you cannot shoot them in New York while deer hunting. Hunters are taught to know your target before shooting. I for one would not have shot this deer, it is not a Whitetail Deer.
http://blog.syracuse.com/outdoors/2010/12/non-native_11-point_black_fall.htmlNon-native, 11-point, European fallow deer shot by hunter in SpaffordPublished: Wednesday, December 01, 2010, 9:52 AM Updated: Wednesday, December 01, 2010, 12:10 PM
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You don't hear about this every day. David Hutcheon, of Liverpool, shot an 11-point, European fallow deer in Spafford recently.
"It apparently escaped from someone who raises them (for meat or hunting)," he said.
The deer had a black tail and its body was completely chocolate brown, Hutcheon said.
"It didn't have a rack like a whitetail. It was a webbed rack with little points coming off it," he said. "The spread (on the antlers) was 20 by 20 (inches)."
Hutcheon said he was in a ground blind watching four does and a buck at about 200 yards away when he heard a rustling in the woods behind him.
"I initially thought it was a squirrel and then I saw its antlers bouncing up and down in the woods," he said. "I shot it at about 35 yards."
Hutcheon said he checked the Internet and discovered his species of deer is native in places like the Scottish Highlands and elsewhere in Europe.
"It's kind of unique. It's nothing you're ever going to see in the U.S.," he said.
