One of my favourite deer species on earth are one I get to hunt every year, that is the Fallow deer.
They have an antler structure similar to moose, with "palms" sometimes as big as a dinner plate standing out amongst most other species.
Also interesting, as far as I know they're the only deer that come in multiple coat colours as standard. They vary from white (not albino or piebald), through to menil, red (common) and into black. It is normal to see multiple or even all colour phases. White is generally the rarest, partially because they stand out so well and get shot first. My personal favourite is the menil, it took me a lot of years to shoot a good menil buck.
Enjoy the pics
All four colour phases in one pic
Menil with point structure
My brother with a Red or common colour phase and good palms
One of my brothers with a really good black phase buck.
And my best buck, I'm not into scoring but my taxidermist who is one of the national scorers did it and he qualified for the top 20 in the country. I didn't enter him in though.
They have an antler structure similar to moose, with "palms" sometimes as big as a dinner plate standing out amongst most other species.
Also interesting, as far as I know they're the only deer that come in multiple coat colours as standard. They vary from white (not albino or piebald), through to menil, red (common) and into black. It is normal to see multiple or even all colour phases. White is generally the rarest, partially because they stand out so well and get shot first. My personal favourite is the menil, it took me a lot of years to shoot a good menil buck.
Enjoy the pics
All four colour phases in one pic
Menil with point structure
My brother with a Red or common colour phase and good palms
One of my brothers with a really good black phase buck.
And my best buck, I'm not into scoring but my taxidermist who is one of the national scorers did it and he qualified for the top 20 in the country. I didn't enter him in though.
