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check out this blue deer from Texas posted by harhey.

Harhey's Blue Buck

Has anyone seen or heard of this variations?

what have you found out so far, about your blue buck harhey?

hi Jason , thanks for the interest. I am still coming up empty in my research. I havent as of yet been able to find out anything. The only reference I have found to a blue deer is a legend of a blue deer. Apparently it took place in the early 1900"s and one of the wealthy Rockefellers was involved.
He offered a reward in the neighborhood of $100,00 for the person who brought him the Blue deer . As it turns out ( at least in my opinion ) It was nothing more than a land scam perpetrated on those who rushed to the area where the deer had been seen , to collect the reward.
Other than the legend , I have been told by my taxidermist that the deer is some form of melanistic ( black ) deer, and by another local man who is a contract trapper said the same thing . None of the hunters Ive talked to have seen anything like him.
Their was a black 7 point Buck
killed last year about 50 yds from where the Blue Buck was taken.

i always thought 'melanistic' meant black, but apparently there are several variations. here is a good article:

www.northamericanwhitetail.com/weirdwhit...1201melanistic/#cont

says its very rare

Ive already read that article , its one of the most informative on the subject I have found. If you google melanistic deer , you will see many variations of the black coloration.
Some are pitch black like the 7 point killed lat year where I hunt, others are kinda chocolate and still others are kinda charcoal. As far as I can tell at this point a blue variation isnt included in any information on melanistic deer. I will keep searching , but Im already running out of sources , at some point I may inquire at my State Fish and Game Department.

you mentioned a taxidermist, what type of mount are you getting?