RE: Do you keep the meat
I have never tried to debone a buffalo, but I think it would be a lot harder than deboning an Asian, because the buffalo bones are shaped more like feathers than "y"s. I think it would be hard to do. But if you have a lot of fish, like bowfishers often do, there is a fairly boneless piece of meat that runs along the top of the back that you could cut off. Some might see this as a bit like cutting the tongue out of a four-legged buffalo, but if the meat is going to waste anyway.....