Post by Bill on Jan 28, 2008 23:41:43 GMT -5
2 buddies of mine and another friend of theirs had the chance to go Buffalo hunting this weekend. Seems the Buffalo bull had gotten loose and now one could get it back into its corral. It had found it liked its freedom and wanted to stay that way. The buffalo had been feed pretty good the last 3 years and it weighed around 2,000 lbs.
On its walk about on about 10,000 acres of some of Nebraska's finest which means pine ridge country with cliffs and all kinds of up and downs it would just walk through any fence it came too which was also driving the owner of the property nuts trying to keep the rest of the critters fenced in. And it was his Buffalo. ;D
Anyway these three guys got an invitation to hunt the Buffalo. Do some searching for Beaver Wall country north of the Niobrara river and south of the Pine Ridge Indian reservation on the Nebraska side. Well it took them most of two days to catch up with the Buffalo. When they did they found it sleeping on a sidehill in the sun. One tried to sneak around and above and the plan was that when he got there the other two would then try to do the same and if it didn't work they would have the Buffalo in a kind of a cross fire. Well it didn't work. The first guy got around but the Buffalo must of smelled him as he jumped up and took off like a bat. They ended up having to track him another 3 miles before they finally got within 140 yards of him. I guess he was angling up a hill when they caught up with him and they decided to shoot. Two were shooting .300 RUM's with 180's and the other a .30-06 with 180's. My buddies said when they shot him with their .300 RUMs you would of thought that they had missed. No reaction at all. The .30-06 made him take no notice at all. Thinking they had maybe missed they all fired again. Still nothing. This time one of them told them all to shoot just behind the front leg and up about 4-5"s and when they did this it went down. He finally remembered that the heart was laying down next to the bottom of the chest and clear to the front. Seems they were shooting like they would a deer or elk and all they were doing was taking out the lungs and not much else and it just didn't affect the Buffalo at all. The heart shots did the job. Not much heart left.
When I was being told the story of the hunt my buddy was putting the backstraps on ice. He was holding one of them up and it was about a foot off the floor and even with his head and he is over 6' tall.
I just kept thinking that it sure would be fun to hunt buffalo with my .45-90 and a 535 grain bullet and see how it would do against the .300 RUM. in bringing down that buffalo.
On its walk about on about 10,000 acres of some of Nebraska's finest which means pine ridge country with cliffs and all kinds of up and downs it would just walk through any fence it came too which was also driving the owner of the property nuts trying to keep the rest of the critters fenced in. And it was his Buffalo. ;D
Anyway these three guys got an invitation to hunt the Buffalo. Do some searching for Beaver Wall country north of the Niobrara river and south of the Pine Ridge Indian reservation on the Nebraska side. Well it took them most of two days to catch up with the Buffalo. When they did they found it sleeping on a sidehill in the sun. One tried to sneak around and above and the plan was that when he got there the other two would then try to do the same and if it didn't work they would have the Buffalo in a kind of a cross fire. Well it didn't work. The first guy got around but the Buffalo must of smelled him as he jumped up and took off like a bat. They ended up having to track him another 3 miles before they finally got within 140 yards of him. I guess he was angling up a hill when they caught up with him and they decided to shoot. Two were shooting .300 RUM's with 180's and the other a .30-06 with 180's. My buddies said when they shot him with their .300 RUMs you would of thought that they had missed. No reaction at all. The .30-06 made him take no notice at all. Thinking they had maybe missed they all fired again. Still nothing. This time one of them told them all to shoot just behind the front leg and up about 4-5"s and when they did this it went down. He finally remembered that the heart was laying down next to the bottom of the chest and clear to the front. Seems they were shooting like they would a deer or elk and all they were doing was taking out the lungs and not much else and it just didn't affect the Buffalo at all. The heart shots did the job. Not much heart left.
When I was being told the story of the hunt my buddy was putting the backstraps on ice. He was holding one of them up and it was about a foot off the floor and even with his head and he is over 6' tall.
I just kept thinking that it sure would be fun to hunt buffalo with my .45-90 and a 535 grain bullet and see how it would do against the .300 RUM. in bringing down that buffalo.