Posted on 10/26/2014 10:18:08 AM PDT by cripplecreek
An 11-year-old hunter from Oceola Township, Michigan, took a rare albino 12-pointer with a crossbow last week while hunting with his father. The albino buck was well known in the area, but Gavin Dingman ended up being the lucky hunter to harvest it. Sadly, the celebration ended for Dingman and his family, as they became the subject of death threats and social media backlash.
"My dad was just like, 'Take a deep breath. Are you sure you can take the shot? If you're not 100 percent, we don't want to injure it,'” Dingman told the Livingston Daily on Monday. The boy explained that he'd been quite nervous, but he harvested a six-point buck last year, and his father, Mick, was confident in his abilities. “Quite a few of the guys in the neighborhood were trying to get it," Mick added.
The family was making arrangements for a full body mount of the animal to be made as a (very large) reminder of the young hunter’s success. The Livingston Daily story even quoted the boy's father as saying, "He kind of feels like a rock star right now. Everyone is calling, all of the hunting shows and hunting magazines." But social media backlash had cast a dark pall over the boy's experience by the time OutdoorHub spoke to Mick Dingman on Tuesday. "We've had death threats and everything else that you can imagine," he said.
The OutdoorHub reporter expressed his regret and wrote, "Hopefully not too long from now, Gavin and his family can look back on this hunt with only pride and good memories."
Imagine my surprise. Well, you don’t need to really. There is none ;)
What joy comes with killing this beautiful creature?
A couple of years ago, there was an employee of a company that provided swans to complexes who was drowned by a swan, in his kayak. Water gardens are big in these places. The bird sat on him and drove him under until he stopped moving.
Is that the herd at FermiLab, outside of Chicago, in Darian?
An albino deer is defective I am surprised the liberals didn’t demand an abortion.
east shore of Seneca Lake on the Seneca Army Depot... they came here from Germany and since the Q area was heavily, and i do mean heavily fenced/patrolled, the heard grew and grew but somehow, they still manage to get out
who said the kid isn't hunting for fun food and management???
heard=herd...
That’s just dumb. No one said there should be a law or anything, just why not wait for the next one, since many people think an albino animal in the wild is special.
Definitely not from humans. Other than a bear, what in Michigan would go after it?
When I lived up that way, most people used hunting and fishing as a primary food source.
Of course it’s not worse.
Albinos can be mean. Ask Charles Bronson.
Right, it is an unknown reason. I’ve lived, shot, fished and hunted from VA to Fla. I wouldn’t have harvested that deer unless my family really needed the meat and there were no other deer around.
Don’t worry, there will be more Albino deer.
Albino animals have two genetic traits in common. Pink eyes and a white coat. Deer in pix has regular, not pink, eyes. Maybe some time back during the post ice ages there were all white deer.A later posting by a FR had pix of a small herd of all white deer.
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