Ray,

How much $$ to come down to Nebraska to hunt Bison? It sounds like a hunt of a lifetime for me. Waiting on a pemit up here could be just that, a lifetime. Thanks

Brent,

There is a farmer/landowner type guy up in Delta Junction that has his own herd of bison and allows "hunts" similiar to the one on this thread. I saw the ad in the ADN under Guns a few days ago.

If you're talking about the bison "shoot", then I know the place you are talking about. It costs $2500.00 and they drive out in the truck used to feed them in,of course they all come running over to the truck, then they tell you what bull you can shoot.

A brother hunter was telling me about it last week, his X brother in law and another friend went up and shot two and just got back. He was asking him how in the hell did he shoot one, he knew he never drew a tag. He said it only cost him $1000. but we think he just didn't want to admit it cost that much for the bull.

If you got the money, and it's what you want, go for it. I like the story of Rays hunt, bustin ass in that terrain would make the experience that much better for me, a little different than the flat barley fields and woods of Delta too.

Brent,

That must be the "hunt" I was talking about. Your friend only payed $1000 for this?

Eddie is his name, he claims he got a good deal but his partner had to pay the full price. I don't know the rest of the story why, just what my friend Chuck had told me. Chucks dad had drew a permit last year and they found a big one up there.

After a day and a half of nothing some kids rode by on a wheeler, they told them a herd was less than 1/4 mile away through the woods in a large field. They follewed them until later that afternoon and finally got to within shooting distance with the 460wby, one shot and he went down.

Ray,

I am leaving in 4 weeks for Nebraska to fill the ol' freezer with bison once again. Could you provide some additional information about the outfit you are hunting in Nebraska. You can send me a PM if you like. I would be very interested in hunting there next year.

Thanks!

HI,

MARK IN SC, nice pics and congratulations on your hunt. I may have not paid attention to your post, but how far were the shots on the Buff. I understand that the range may be limited to the 4570 trajectory just wondering how far. Thanks,Kev

Kev, I shot my bull at around 130 yards. The first shot (which would have been enough) was a pass through. I aimed half-way up the chest just behind the vertical line where the long, shaggy hair on the shoulders meets the shorter hair on the body and hindquarters. The second shot was on the point of the shoulder, and did not exit.

Smelling the blood and sensing that my bull was in trouble, another large mature bull rammed him broadside, knocking him off his feet, then started goring him. We jumped in the truck and chased the other bulls away before they ruined the cape on my bull. Not very nice critters. I have seen videos where Cape Buffalo bulls do the same thing.

My cousin shot his yearling bull with a .30/06 at about 150 yards. His aimpoint was the same as mine for my first shot. The yearling ran 50 yards, tettered back and forth a few times, and hit the ground.

Wow, Russell! That must have been one huge cow! Any idea what the live weight or carcass weights were on her? Combined, my mature bull and my cousin's yearling bull yielded a total of 700 pounds of boneless meat.

If I can find the bill around here ("ha!"), it seems like it was 380-something... hence my "about 400" report. I don't know, she was big. I was glad, after it was over, that I did NOT shoot a trophy-size bull, because I ran out of freezer space as it was with the cow... and that was after giving some of it away to my folks and my gunsmith buddy. If I ever do a large bull, I'll first make sure I have adequate freezer space. She was a mature cow, that's about all I can tell you... that, and the fact that gutting a bison isn't ANYTHING like gutting a whitetail!!! Man, the guts just keep coming and coming and coming! Guts, guts, guts! And when you're done, the body cavity is cavernous! I swear, I probably could have gotten an echo out of there! And ribs??? Lord howdy, I'd never seen RIBS like that before! Nope, sure wasn't like a whitetail!

I dropped mine with one shot from my Remington rollingblock chambered for .45 2-4/10", using a 520-grain slug.

Russ

I just did some searching and I was wrong. It was 460 pounds of meat, costing me $334.01 to be processed. For the "processing," I not only got all that meat, but they pulled the hide off for me, salted it, and packaged it and the head up separately... I thought it was an extremely "reasonable" cost.

Russ

[ 12-02-2002, 21:07: Message edited by: Russell E. Taylor ]