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Buffalo "hunt"

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fence_stretcher

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I was fixin fence way down in the draws of a pasture yesterday morning. I came around the hillside and saw a big bull buffalo standing there. What a site! I've only been working for this ranch since October and I couldn't think of any neighbors that had buffalo. I called the boss from the radio and he couldn't believe it either.

The closest herd is about 15 miles away. Boss got on the phone with the buffalo outfit and they thought that it could be one of theirs.

Their pilot went up in the air that night and spotted it in about the same spot I saw it. They came over this morning to shoot it (it's too much to try and chase one of these things around and try to load it). I sooo wanted to pull that trigger but I don't know these folks too well so I didn't ask. The fella' pulling the trigger said they have a sweet spot right behind the ear. It was a little tense, at one point he started to charge. It got to about 75 yds and they finally put it down. It got up again and went another 25 yds or so and finally went down for good.

Here's some pics:

Here he is at about 200 yds:

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Here's the guy from the buffalo outfit taking aim: (I had a great view!)

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Walking up for the final shot (this thing is still alive):

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Here's me with my trophy (I wish):

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Folks checking out the kill:

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Loading it up:

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It was a fun time, even if I didn't get to shoot it! I'm glad I got my photo with it. Hope you enjoy the photos. These animals are an awesome creation!
 
Real nice pics. Bet it was quite a site to see one of those things. It was probably a once in a lifetime chance to see one.

Catch ya later,
MN Farm Girl
 
Neighbours buffalo where out on the hiway the other night. I'm hoping I don't get that close to one. I think they would make a very nasty hood ornament and not something you need when doing that 1:00 oclock cow check :shock: :shock:
 
Wow!!! is about all I can say.

I've always thought buffalo were such beautiful creatures...to be so ugly LOL They are, I guess, what you'd call Majestic. Not that I'd have any trouble whatsoever eatin a buffalo burger. I've had em, and they are perdy good burgers.
He looks huge in the first picture....but not as big in some of the others.

I guess Bull Buffalo are easy to come by if they can just go shoot one of their herd bulls??? I mean....what if that was one of their best bulls? I didn't see any tags in it's ears. How would they know?

Thanks for sharin the pictures. I woulda asked for the hide before I asked for a burger LOL
 
Wow that is really a neat deal. There is a feller about an hour or so east of here that has buffalo and he just explains it this way "You learn to respect them real quick". From what I understand they must be fairly fast for there size and they are in no way tame and they darn sure don't understand how strong they are for there size so they are a real handful to deal with. Lucky you found it in the daytime and was able to get it handled safely... Nice shots thanks... 8)
 
Man that sucker is bleeding.. What caliber gun where they using on him? Almost wonder if it would be quicker just to pump him one through the boiler but I know notta about killing buffalo except that the local locker shot one 3 times in the head and just pissed it off until they brough a slug gun over.. At least I think it was a slug, might have been a muzzle, can't remember the story 100% anymore and who knows what percentage of truth the story I got was :lol: :lol:

Bison is a bit lean for my tastes but to each their own.. If I remember right Turner used to get rid of his bulls pretty young and basically had hunters come out and kill them because otherwise they would tear up the facilitis too much.. Again, can't remember the info 100% and who knows how accurate it was when I got it.
 
I had a big bull get in my calving field a couple years back-I got the wife out with the video camera to record the kill shot and it lasted about a half a second-I shot him where his neck joins his shoulder with a .270 and he just dropped-never even twitched which kind of surprised me.
 
This may sound like a dumb question, I know they probably couldn't herd him back to where he belonged, but why shoot him? I was thinking maybe they could of tranquilized him, then loaded him up and go back to the herd...Just curious...pretty awesome sight..glad you had a camera!
 
Thanks for the pics, that's quite the country. That ole bull looks pretty natural in it.
Up here there is a limited entry hunting season for buffalo, and I'm getting a little worried about the number of them and the nearness of them.
I had a horse get gored by an old bull like that once when I was in the mountains, it nearly killed it. Poor things only crime was being short tied at night and that buffalo just walked up and stuck it right behind the front legs on both sides kinda like it was aiming for the heart. It made a fist sized hole in each side of the horse. I've had lots of run ins with them, so I like to see them laying down like in your pics.
I posted this a few months ago, these were our neighbours escapees. We downed an even dozen in one go-round.

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the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
I guess Bull Buffalo are easy to come by if they can just go shoot one of their herd bulls??? I mean....what if that was one of their best bulls? I didn't see any tags in it's ears. How would they know?
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We use to own some property next to a guy that ran buffalo, One day we saw a big bull walking through the yard so we gave the guy a call and he said to just shoot it and if we wanted it to just butcher it or he would come haul it off.

He said that once a bull get to wandering you will never be able to keep them in again so its just better in the long run to shoot them.
 
we lived on a place in colorado here awhile back that had buffalo
they kept them in about six sections and they would let folks come out and hunt the old bulls to get rid of them
the corral set up they had was awsome
but they olny penned them when the weather was bad and they could get the in the trap with feed
the guy that worked them said they worked easy as long as it is their idea
but if you tried to force one in like a cow they would come get on you in a hurry but if you just set the gates and move around in the right spots they would go though the chutes and such on their own
they had an 8 wire high tensinle hot fence around that place and it kept them in good but when the water gaps got washed out and some got out they just shot them also
i asked him why they didn't just rope a little calf that got out one time and he told me if you rope them around the neck their wind pipe would get crushed like an elk and they would die any how
until later
jerry
 
To answer some of the questions:

The bull didn't have any ear tags in it but it was one that they had been missing and had distinctive marks on it.

When you have one loan bull out by himself, it's near impossible to get him loaded. These animals aren't cattle. I always kind of, in my mind, compared them to cattle in ways. After yesterday I now understand these things are a completely different animal and would just as soon kill you as to look at you. We were 200 yds away and when the guys started shooting, this thing started charging us.

They were using a 30-06 and a 7mm. They say there's a sweet spot right behind the ear about the size of a baseball.
 

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