I wanted to share this with you guys..
Last Friday morning I took a fallow buck with my bow in Greensboro, AL.
There have been no sightings of this deer of any other in the area. There are also no high fences within 40 miles of us, and he did not have a tag or holes in his ears from a tag. This could have been a descendent of an escaped captive fallow, or a very rare sighting of what could be a true wild fallow left from the 20's when they attempted to populated a fallow deer herd. According to outdooralabama.com' they estimate about 40 left from that herd.

Wolbach, that looked like a good picture that my brother showed me. Very impressive kill. I have no idea where that thing came from.

To post pictures, I think it involves getting a photobucket account, there are directions on the general forum at the top.

-BH

if you dont want to start a photobucket account i can post them for you.

email me at rebelpiper@bellsouth.net

I have a buddy with property in Marengo and Wilcox county. He said they seen them ocassionally in the 90's. Said they were very dumb and had to pull up and bump one with the truck bumper once on his property to get it to move out of the way.

Id love to see pics.

Wow never heard of them. But I looked them up I would like to see the pics and I would like to see more of them in this state

Very nice!!! congrats.

awesome trophy...congrats!

Nice!!!

Congrats that's great deer

Thats an awesome trophy congrats to you.Did anyone happen to age the deer?

I'm having the taxidermy guy pull the jaw bone, I didn't want to mess anything up since I'm getting him mounted. They aree going to age him for me

wow! that's cool! it would be a trip to see that thing walking into your stand!
just from little i read, he's a long way from areas where fallow deer were introduced (attempted) in 1920's and 30's. gotta wonder how he got there and how long he'd been walking around avoiding his ultimate fate, as it turns out?

Cool buck! I would have loved to shoot him! My Dad killed a fallow doe in Camden in the early 90's.
Congrats!!

That is very cool

very interesting how he got there. there may be more in the area than people think, who knows

I know there were several that escaped in Chilton County a couple of years ago.

CWolbach,
Congrats on your fallow stag.
Check your PM.

I bet you thought $&##%@#&*$&@ when you first saw him!!!! That's awesome man, my dad went to college in livingston and said they had some running around down there in the early 70's. First time he saw one he made a promise to himself he'd never drink again, then he realized it really was a fallow deer he was looking at. Congrats again buddy

That's awesome. I bet that was a big suprise lol. Congrats man.

There are some wandering around Adamsville/West Jefferson area.

I can't believe no one else has said this, so let me be the first...... He would have been a good one next year!


Just joking. Once in a lifetime trophy there. No trail cam pics from the summer?

Haha, I actually got that comment from a guy down at the club, followed by " the only thing that would make it better is if I had killed him". Thank you guys for the comments, definitely a once in a lifetime opportunity and experience. And yes you are correct about what I was thinking when I saw him...."#$%&+&%$$#&*"

No trailcam pics, no sightings or any word of him before I saw him Friday morning.

That is freakin awesome right there!! Congrats!!!

Very cool

I use to see one all the time on the side of the road in Marengo County. Saw him two years in a row.

Drummons have a high fence all the way round their property. It is located right across the road from Forever wild or the old State cattle ranch. Do not know if they have any fallow deer on their property or not.

That is unreal. Congrats!

That is awesome. Congrats

Congrats on a very unique buck! I killed a couple of fallow bucks near Millers Ferry back in the 70s. One had 18 pts and the other 14. They were much flatter than the antlerson yours, and really didnt look like him at all.

I have seen some picture of typical fallow antlers, most of them get wide (front to back)and web like. These started to get like that, but something makes me wonder if this could be a product of a whitetail/fallow breeding. Although i have been told that they will not breed together, consider if you are a lonley fallow walking around, and you see a hot doe whitetail, and possibly a few beers later..magic could happen. I'm hoping to get some insight from a wildlife biologist or maybe someone that knows a lot about the fallow

I'm guessing its completely legal to kill these should I ever see one right? What are the laws for those in the know.

Nice congrats

They have some fallow deer at Donavan Lakes fishing club south of Marion,not to far from Greensboro.

There were several killed in the Camden area back in the 70s that showed characteristics that would indicate a cross between a fallow and a whitetail. I know that a whitetail buck will breed a mule deer doe, and have read several articles about the detrimental effect that is having on the mule deer population in areas where they overlap. The mule deer buck is not aggressive enough to breed a whitetail doe, but the whitetail buck has no problem with the mule deer doe. I'd think they'd have no problem handling a fallow doe either. It would be interesting to find out if this deer is a cross.

I've often wondered if the fallow does getting bred by whitetail bucks was partly responsible for the fallow deer decline in Wilcox Co. Any hybrid would be sterile, and it may be that the whitetail bucks had as much to do with their disappearance as hunters.

Here's the antlers from my largest fallow. I've seen some that were much larger. As you can see, they look a lot different from CWolbach's deer.

I thought that Auburn put out some mutated hybrid deer back in the 80's here is West Alabama near the Sipsey Valley area. They are supposed to grow twice as fast as your average deer and have a larger body than the pure whitetail. They have characteristics of Red deer, Fallow and whitetail. Anyone seen one around the Pickens/Tuscaloosa area?

A buddy of mine killed a fallow buck in Geiger about 5 years ago. A high fence just across the Mississippi line was damaged in the last hurricane.

Sweet Nice Buck!!

Fallow and whitetail canot cross. The whitetail buck may try it, but the sperm will not take.

Fallow are an old world deer, their genetic makeup is very different. Muleys and whitetail are new world deer, and their genetics are very close. Hope this helps

Interesting...I have not heard that yet, thanks for the info

antlers look more like sika than fallow

I know of several that look very similar to that that are kept in a 5 acre enclosure in the Greensboro area. It is more than likely one of those captive ones that escaped. I will check with the guy and report back if he is missing any.

My dad hunts down there with y'all at Bucksnort. I came down there with him a few times last year when I was on leave with the military. I like the club and the people. Wish I would've gotten in this year!

You inspired me to look around and read several articles on the subject. Looks like the old hunters from Wilcox Co back in the 70s were wrong - the whitetail and fallow won't cross, I guess there is just a lot of variation in fallow deer, and most of us don't see enough of them to realize it. Thanks for correcting my bad guess.

sika don't palmate like that fallow.....

I Talked to the guy who had the 3 deer in a pen and showed him this picture. He said it is one of his that got out. He said a tree fell on the fence of his 5 acre pen and they got out and only one has come back, so there is another one out there. He did say they were tame enough that his grandchildren hand feed them through the fence.

Good post Waldo - glad to see you're on here now.