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First of all this was NOT a free range hunt, it was on a 600 acre high fence where I owned and kept two bull bison. I decided to kill one of them for the freezer. As I am a lifelong trad bow shooter and flintknapper the weapon of choice was a natural.... Dwyer Defiant R/D longbow, 57# and hickory shafted arras with self knapped stone points... raw Texas chert tri-notch...  raw Coastal Plains Dalton style point...  Birmingham, Al | ||
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I tried twice to approach the bulls but they wern't allowing it. They were NOT tame animals. Finally made a 300 yard stalk under a steep hill and climbed to the top. The bulls were 30 yards away and moving towards me. I drew while the lead bull went behind a large pine tree and waited. At twelve yards I took a broadside shot to the rear of the left shoulder, arrow penetrated to the cresting, hitting both lungs. The bull spun around and jogged off as I hit him with a second arra...hitting too far back on a large rib. The head fractured and penetration was maybe eight inches. The bull went two hundred yards and down from the first arrow...  Thats my grandson Dylan who was along with me. He will tell you he is now a "buffalo hunter".... The bull was near 2000# live on the hoof  after processing I got near 700# of meat in two freezers...  and a eight foot by ten foot hide to be tanned..  troy Birmingham, Al | |||
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Very cool, shot my buffalo couple years ago, the wife says i might have to go shot another one soon as she is missing the meat. Thanks! Brian Clark Blue Skies Hunting Adventures www.blueskieshunting.com Email at: info@blueskieshunting.com African Cape Trophy Safaris www.africancapesafaris.com Email at: brian@africancapesafaris.com 1-402-689-2024 | |||
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I gotta tell you, I'm impressed. Great job. I shoot a buffalo almost every year with my Sharps, and we love the meat. A 1650 pound bull will fill a 21 cubic foot freezer. | |||
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 That is great.Very impressed with your Stone Points. Congratulations! | |||
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well heck yeah! i'd say the same thing! Awesome! NRA Life Member Gun Control - A theory espoused by some monumentally stupid people; who claim to believe, against all logic and common sense, that a violent predator who ignores the laws prohibiting them from robbing, raping, kidnapping, torturing and killing their fellow human beings will obey a law telling them that they cannot own a gun. | |||
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Super work on those points. That is one awesome animal. Steve "He wins the most, who honour saves. Success is not the test." Ryan "Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." Stalin Tanzania 06 Argentina08 Argentina Australia06 Argentina 07 Namibia Arnhemland10 Belize2011 Moz04 Moz 09 | |||
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the hide is almost salt dry and ready to send off... and the Bison burgers are to kill for.... troy Birmingham, Al | |||
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Cool. I have a question . Where'd you get the Bison? Thanks. The things you see when you don't have a gun. NRA Endowment Life Member Proud father of an active duty Submariner... Go NAVY! | |||
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I got two bulls three years ago, given to me by a man that couldn't keep em fenced. Birmingham, Al | |||
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Great stuff!!! DRSS | |||
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this is the second arra, point broken by impact fracture. It failed to penetrate more than 5-6 inches. The first arrow with a different head did the deed.  troy Birmingham, Al | |||
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Dtala, first, congrats on hunting your bison with your own traditional point. Secondly, have you ever been to the Old Stone Fort knap-in at Manchester, TN? Seems like we met some years ago. I haven't touched any flint in 5 years other than expanding my artifact collecting. Cheers, David Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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Great that you did it that way. I have a $250 piece of Obsidian sitting on my hearth waiting for me to start chipping away. I would love to kill a deer with a stone pointed arrow. | |||
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Awesome animal! I would love to hunt such an animal, to bad we don t have them in Europe. | |||
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They do have them in Europe, they are called wisent or European bison. I don't believe any hunting of them is allowed. I do know someone that shot one at a game farm in the US however! | |||
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great job! very interesting hunt/harvest. I love buffalo meat too! | |||
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My mistake, we have wisent in Poland and they can be hunted but for the insignificant price starting from 20.000 euros.  | |||
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George, it would probably cheaper for you to fly to Colorado to shoot one! | |||
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How much money we talk for this hunt? Sorry for offtopic! | |||
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Originally posted by srose
I had no idea Obsidian brought that kind of money. When I was a kid we'ed go to eastern Oregon I knew a place there where I could pick it up by the bucket. DTala- Great post I really enjoyed your last topic with the deer and turkey, I'm still finding it hard enough to hunt with a longbow and modern broadheads I doubt that I'll ever garduate to your level of pure archery. George Dina - I don't know what the current price is but you can shoot a Buffalo at the tripple U ranch in South Dekota fairly cheap. That is the ranch where Dances with wolves was filmed. I got mine there for about $1200 but that was 15 years ago. I'd guess you can still do it for $2500 or so. Thats just a guess. DRSS NRA life AK Master Guide 124 | |||
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I just checked and the hunt price is $2750 for the head and hide, $4200 if you want to keep the meat. I have a friend from Austria who hunted with them the same year I did. I'm sure he thought it was much cheaper than Wiesent from Poland or Belarus, also much bigger than the European buff. For the guys here who would like to shoot one with a bow like DTala the Triple U will only do that if you take the meat also for the $4200 price. I went with a friend on a free range hunt. He was lucky enough to draw a tag here in AK. Bisen being what they are I did not see much differance between hunting them (free range) on a barly farm in AK or a big ranch in SD. I guess there is a reason why the market hunters were able to bring the numbers down from millions too thousands in a few decades. DRSS NRA life AK Master Guide 124 | |||
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Sir, how large was the area were you hunt? | |||
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As I recall the ranch is something like 70,000 acres (30,000 hectors). DRSS NRA life AK Master Guide 124 | |||
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