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NW Buffalo Hunt?
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I'm glad you specified the "Tatonka" buffalo and not the ubiquitous "Rotunda" variety of buffalo running around up there!
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My Uncle's good friend went to hunt Buffalo in 2024.
I don't have any specifics but it was reportedly akin to shooting a volkswagon bug parked in a field.
This individual has done a lot of African "dangerous game" hunts too, so take that as you will.
I don't have any specifics but it was reportedly akin to shooting a volkswagon bug parked in a field.
This individual has done a lot of African "dangerous game" hunts too, so take that as you will.
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Yep, not much to it if you are where they are. But they have always facinated me.
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Friend told me he was going to go on a buffalo "hunt". I pictured him going accross Great Plains on a horse until they found a herd. Then stalking up within shooting distance and killing one. Then watching the herd run off over the plains. I was excited to here the story of the hunt when he got back.
He rode the buffalo farmers hay wagon out into a fenced field full of a buffalo. From the tractor pulling the wagon, the farmer shot the buffalo you could kill with colored paint balls. The color of the paint ball represented the price of the buffalo. They then shot the one they wanted.
Describing that as a hunt is misleading. I have worked harder trying to get steers caught in a field before the mobile slaughter guy showed up than that buffalo hunt.
He rode the buffalo farmers hay wagon out into a fenced field full of a buffalo. From the tractor pulling the wagon, the farmer shot the buffalo you could kill with colored paint balls. The color of the paint ball represented the price of the buffalo. They then shot the one they wanted.
Describing that as a hunt is misleading. I have worked harder trying to get steers caught in a field before the mobile slaughter guy showed up than that buffalo hunt.
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I would like to hunt buffalo with my Hawken rifle.
Having talked with a few folks who have hunted buffalo on a game ranch setting...
They all have stated it more a matter of shooting....rather then hunting.
All that said....
The idea still interests me.
Andy
Having talked with a few folks who have hunted buffalo on a game ranch setting...
They all have stated it more a matter of shooting....rather then hunting.
All that said....
The idea still interests me.
Andy
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There is one guy that offers hunts on horseback and you stay in a teepee. When you kill you Buff they come get it in a wagon and haul it out for you. NOT CHEAP THOUGH!
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@Old Warrior I have been to this ranch many times with friends and family https://fouracesranch.net/. High fence hunting isn't my thing but at the time you could come along for a $100 trespass fee that they would apply against animals harvested. So I would tag along as the experience was still very akin to that of hunting camp with the exception of animal harvesting. There was a bunk house and double wide mobile home that you could stay in. The last time we were on the ranch for a hunt, Clark still owned the property but it has since changed hands at least once and the pricing has gone up substantially. I think the last time I was there was in the 2008 to 2010 time frame.
The hunting was as hard or easy as you wanted to make it. When we were going you were allowed to drive on the ranch with four wheelers, trucks, etc.. though the roads were challenging for pickup trucks (ranch rig had chains on the tires year round). The ranch is rather large, I think about 2.25 miles east to west and has significant elevation gain over that distance. Some of our group would use four wheelers to run around the ranch to locate their animal, then put a stalk on or get into a shooting position. The other part of our group which I was usually with was on foot and it was much more like a traditional hunt, great physical exertion to get up to the back of the ranch, going cross country to cover ground, seeing all manner of animals and almost always out of site of any fences. Once an animal was on the ground, the ranch foreman would come up with either a trailer/four wheeler or ranch truck and bring the animal back down to camp. They had a skinning shelter and walk in cooler on site. You could either hire the foreman to process the animal for you (skin, quarter) or handle that process yourself.
Our group over the years harvested every animal they offered at the time to include yak, water buffalo, bison, fallow deer, all the sheep and goats, pigs, russian boar and I am sure I am missing some. Pricing for a yearling bison when we were going was $400 - $600, meat bison were $1,000 and you could shoot any bison on the property for $2,400 - $2,800 and they had some monster bulls. They also had a program where you could donate the meet and get a charitable contribution letter for $4 or $5 a pound hanging weight. Most bison bulls would get you a large enough tax write off to where the hunt cost was close to nothing. Many in the group used the hunt as an opportunity to use family guns handed down through the generations such as winchester high walls, lever guns, muzzle loaders, pre-64 model 70's, etc....
The hunting was as hard or easy as you wanted to make it. When we were going you were allowed to drive on the ranch with four wheelers, trucks, etc.. though the roads were challenging for pickup trucks (ranch rig had chains on the tires year round). The ranch is rather large, I think about 2.25 miles east to west and has significant elevation gain over that distance. Some of our group would use four wheelers to run around the ranch to locate their animal, then put a stalk on or get into a shooting position. The other part of our group which I was usually with was on foot and it was much more like a traditional hunt, great physical exertion to get up to the back of the ranch, going cross country to cover ground, seeing all manner of animals and almost always out of site of any fences. Once an animal was on the ground, the ranch foreman would come up with either a trailer/four wheeler or ranch truck and bring the animal back down to camp. They had a skinning shelter and walk in cooler on site. You could either hire the foreman to process the animal for you (skin, quarter) or handle that process yourself.
Our group over the years harvested every animal they offered at the time to include yak, water buffalo, bison, fallow deer, all the sheep and goats, pigs, russian boar and I am sure I am missing some. Pricing for a yearling bison when we were going was $400 - $600, meat bison were $1,000 and you could shoot any bison on the property for $2,400 - $2,800 and they had some monster bulls. They also had a program where you could donate the meet and get a charitable contribution letter for $4 or $5 a pound hanging weight. Most bison bulls would get you a large enough tax write off to where the hunt cost was close to nothing. Many in the group used the hunt as an opportunity to use family guns handed down through the generations such as winchester high walls, lever guns, muzzle loaders, pre-64 model 70's, etc....
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By the way................
The one I spoke of on horseback, is not in NW, but in a plains state. So, you are going to have to add a plane ticket, or a 3 day leisurely drive to and from.
The one I spoke of on horseback, is not in NW, but in a plains state. So, you are going to have to add a plane ticket, or a 3 day leisurely drive to and from.
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Ground Bison was selling for $18.00 a pound at Safeway and I wanted to see what my new, (at that time) .458 SoCom AR would do, so I signed up for a, "Guided Hunt" in Utah. Like your friend said, there was no, "Hunting" to it. It was like shooting a VW in a parking lot. 
All things, including airfare, one European skull mount, I had a dressed 380 lbs of Bison. At $18.00 a pound I about broke even. Al this with minor hassle over my rifle at the airport.
It was an interesting experience, but I would never do it again.
*Note Bison has virtually no fat so, don't try to cook it like beef.
All things, including airfare, one European skull mount, I had a dressed 380 lbs of Bison. At $18.00 a pound I about broke even. Al this with minor hassle over my rifle at the airport.
It was an interesting experience, but I would never do it again.
*Note Bison has virtually no fat so, don't try to cook it like beef.
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...we have Buffalo up here?
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At the time of my hunt, I would see a large bull Bison on a farm here in Skagit county. They may have have been raising it for meat, as I haven't seen it for some time now. 
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From what I have read from those who have experience with this the most 'dangerous game' on an African hunt is drunk poker in the evening.....
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You know, now that you mention that, there used to be a guy who raised Buffalo over in JeffCo, just outside of Chimacum. I remember seeing them as I drove by. Lots of Angus out there, too, so there may have been some cross breeding going on.At the time of my hunt, I would see a large bull Bison on a farm here in Skagit county. They may have have been raising it for meat, as I haven't seen it for some time now.
Haven't seen those Buffalo for quite a while now.
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