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Friday I got a call from some rancher friends who have a buffalo herd. A two year old bull had escaped and was on another ranch 10 miles away. They said they were going to put it down and asked if I wanted the meat. So, not being a total idiot, I rounded up a helper and we drove the 2 hrs to the ranch. When I got there, they asked if I'd brought my Sharps...turned out they were waiting so I could shoot it. Darn! Knew I should have brought a rifle just in case!
No problem, they handed me a Marlin 95 in .450. Long story short, we finally located the bull. But he had also located us. He was heading for dense brush and timber offering only a Texas heart shot.
Finally, just before he got to the thicket, he turned just enough to give me a slight quartering shot. Not very good, but it was all I was going to get. I put the bead on him and fired. Range was about 130 yards. Took out the top of his heart and he was down.
I now have a freezer full of buffalo. I'm a happy boy, even if I did have to use a borrowed gun. But at least it had a lever!
Man what a deal, Bout a year ago my b.i.l. got a call from an old guy he knows who just killed his bull he couldn't keep in the fence, told him to come and get all or part but my b.i.l. is to squemish to butcher something, asked me a couple days later if I would have went to get it, I told him I couldn't believe he didn't call me, how can someone be so civilized, sissyfied or what ever it is to butcher out something, the old guy dug a hole with a backhoe the next day and rolled it in no one even had the gumtion to cut out the backstraps, Congrats on all the free vittles
Fred.
Telephone call + escaped animal + cull = Bring a gun... or 3. Because Murphy got the phonecall too.
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Nice shooting. That hind leg sticking up has got my curiosity up. Is someone holding it up, or did you wait a while before taking the photo?
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Kirk, the photo was taken about 45 min to an hour after the kill, right after we hauled it back to the ranch. He was over 10 miles away following his escape. It was over 90 degress and he had a stomach full of grass, so it was beginning to swell. Not to worry, the meat was fine.
Old Savage: the buff is one the left. You can tell because it doesn't have any grey in its beard.
If this happens again (they had to put down another escapee a few weeks ago), I'm taking a rifle even if they say it'll be dead by the time I get there.
These folks are great. I'm an archaeologist at the University of Ok. We have been working on a large prehistoric bison kill site on their ranch off and on for several years. About 3 or 4 years ago, they let us cull out a bison cow (that one I did get to shoot with the Sharps .45-90) that we butchered using stone tools, following the butchering patterns we were seeing in the bone bed at the kill site. We had a blast.
The load was Hornady factory, the one with the red tip. Don't know the bullet wt or velocity. It entered on the right side, took out the top of the heart and exited just behind the left foreleg. A sumac on the far side of him was literally covered in blood; there was not one green spot showing on that sumac. Looked like you'd sprayed it with red paint. He bled out fast.
Can't give any necropsy results as we didn't open him up. The hide was completely rubbed off so I split it down the spine and peeled it down the sides. We took all 4 quarters, the straps and one rib rack. That completely filled up all the ice chests. I don't know how much we got but it was a lot. The cow bison I shot a few years ago yielded 278 lbs of boned out meat. We weighed one of its backstraps; 28 lbs of pure meat, no waste! This little 2 year old bull was larger than that cow, so I'd estimate we got somewhat over 300 lbs.
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