My wife, daughter and I harvested a buffalo today at the Flying D, here in Montana. It's an 18 month old bull, and it took two arrows (pass thrus)and a 170 gr. Nosler flat point from a .308 (in the ear) to finally drop him.
Butcherin' tonight, tomorrow and probably Sundaytoo. We've got him quartered down in the garage already. Buff tenderloin on the grill tonight!
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1. It is a Mathews Conquest II, 70lb, Bemans, 125gr Muzzy. The arrows are heavy, not sure exactly how many grains total, as I prefer kenetic energy transfer on impact over distace, vs speed (arrows chronograph at 261fps, I shoot my buddy's lighter arrows and they chrony at 310 out of my bow, his are about 410 gr I think). GMMAT the bow is a little longer in design as I am 6'-6" and prefer a longer draw/longervalley. Also, this buff is an 18 month yearling bull, so he's really not all that big.
2. The Flying D is a place you can go to "harvest", not hunt a meat buffalo. They actually do have some free ranging hunts for more money. This bull was a $995er, but they have some 5 1/2+ year old dry cows for $795. They eat okay, but the yearlings eat much better. You shoot them out of a 200 acre pasture, and the ear tags are color coded to denote the type of buff you get to shoot. I got a blue tagger as you can see.
3. And buckhunter14, no they don't usually take that much shooting to put down. I just sucked yesterday, off my game I guess. I put both arrows below the lungs and behind the heart, and he was going to take awhile to expire. They give you two arrows, period, so I went with the wife's .308 on the ear shot. No meat ruined though!
Not sure it's for me but from the smiles on your faces you and yours had a blast and in this situation nothing more counts.
Will your wife chew the hide into a nice buff robe for you?? Not sure mine would.
I think if you had wanted to be authentic you would have driven it over a cliff to it's death. Nice job bud..
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I am signed up for a Bison hunt out here in January. It sounds like a little more of a "hunt", as the animals are free ranging over a number of square miles - butis still a canned hunt in the sense that they can't really get away. I am told that the shot to take is to wait for animal to step forward, with the front leg that is facing you broadside or slightly quartering away, and put the arrow kinda low in the armpit of that leg. Bison are anatomically different than deer and elk, and have their heart/lung area quite a bit lower and further forward than you would expect. They are also pretty tough. A buddy of mine shot one in the chest with a .416 Rem Mag and the bull looked at him as if "Is that all you got?" There was a deal on Outdoor Channel awhile back where Ted Nugent shot one a couple of times with his Magnus Stingers and wound up trailing him for most of the morning before he finally expired.
BTW, for my taste buds, bison is about the best tasting meat on the planet.
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Buffalo harvest! Fun for whole family!
