Shooting bison
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I Luv Herfrds
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Had a similar incedent here in Montana. Guy had a neighbors bison keep getting into his hay. He gave them several chances to get them out and finally shot them. Never heard how it all ended.
Got the Hatfields and McCoys going in our county over some cattle getting into a neighbors wheat fields constantly and were shot.
seems to be that a simple solution is just shoot the animals rather then try to work with the neighbors. But when you get a jerk neighbor there is not much you can do.
Got the Hatfields and McCoys going in our county over some cattle getting into a neighbors wheat fields constantly and were shot.
seems to be that a simple solution is just shoot the animals rather then try to work with the neighbors. But when you get a jerk neighbor there is not much you can do.
Mister Twister
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NR here- it's kind of shoot on sight up here if you get buffalo in your cows. I had a bull get in a few years back and start hooking cows-I found two fresh slips then gave him a 130 grains of pain reliever. Been quite a few rifle roundups of stray buffalo over thge years most with the owners permission.
SHAWN
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Mister Twister said:
I figured you being the man you are you would have done it off a horse with a longbow?!? just like the indians, since there are no cliffs to run em off up there. LOL Shawn
cowpuncher76
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I worked for a big ass outfit on the Colorado-Utah line several years ago (better part of a decade now, actually, yikes!). One of the neighbors used to run a pile of buffalo instead of cows, but they kept ripping out his fences, so he'd end up getting trespassed by the BLM several times a week. He ended up selling the damned things, but his last gather left seven or eight bulls of various ages running loose on the desert.
We had standing permission from him to shoot them if we saw them.
So one day, I'm in a company Cherokee, after having made the long-ass trip to town. I turn onto my road and this damned buffalo bull is standing in the middle of the road looking at me. I jerked my pistol off my hip and piled out of the Jeep.....
Then piled back in when I realized the damned thing was considerably larger than the Jeep! I sat there for twenty minutes waiting for that big SOB to move out of the road, wondering if he was gonna try and take the truck....
I learned a valuable lesson that day. A .45ACP 1911A1 is a popgun when you're standing twenty feet from a mature buffalo bull!
We had standing permission from him to shoot them if we saw them.
So one day, I'm in a company Cherokee, after having made the long-ass trip to town. I turn onto my road and this damned buffalo bull is standing in the middle of the road looking at me. I jerked my pistol off my hip and piled out of the Jeep.....
Then piled back in when I realized the damned thing was considerably larger than the Jeep! I sat there for twenty minutes waiting for that big SOB to move out of the road, wondering if he was gonna try and take the truck....
I learned a valuable lesson that day. A .45ACP 1911A1 is a popgun when you're standing twenty feet from a mature buffalo bull!
PureCountry
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Some parts of Alberta our Livestock Inspectors(Brand Readers) or the SPCA get alot of calls about buffalo or bison. Some people run them without knowing how to fence them in or manage them, and it goes sideways in a hurry. Most times if we can't get them back in easy enough, we have to shoot them as it's a public risk having them on public roads.
Don't shoot them straight on in the head though, there's alot of skull there to crack.
Don't shoot them straight on in the head though, there's alot of skull there to crack.
Northern Rancher
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Right where the neck joins the shoulder-they don't even twitch.
Hereford76
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one of my buddies shot 30 some buffalo owned by the tribe several years back. they had this ground way overstocked with buffalo and were always breaking into their property and the tribe did nothing about it. after a couple years straight having to deal with them the son on the ranch sat patiently along a stretch of fence and laid them down as they came onto the property. he got caught but not punished or fined like this guy in the article.
Mister Twister said:
Same deal here NR, last year we shot 12 in one go and the year before that 13. Buffalo that are miles from home don't go home, so they might so well go in the freezer. Somewhere I have a photo of several buffalo down with women skinning them.... a heart warming sight for sure :wink:
My worst fear is for them to end up running wild out on crown range. It would make our elk problems look pretty minor.
Shortgrass
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Some buffalo got away from a packing house in Colorado Springs a few years ago, and the city cops found their .38's a little small for a buffalo gun! The cops did actually shoot them in town!
