Around my home farm on the southern edge of the Ozarks mountains, it's rare. I killed this one on our lease about 75 miles southwest of here in the Ouachita Mountains and I see quite a few with dark markings there. I dropped this one off with a friend of mine who does taxidermy for a living, not to get mounted, but because he always needs good capes. When I picked up the rack later, he told me he was saving this cape for a show piece he was going to do for competition, because of the unique markings.