Ever Shoot A Buffalo...

[LeeDoo]

Never shot one, smelled a dead one when I was out lookin for a good spot to prairiedog fish though ..

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Helped butcher a couple... turns out they were poached of the crow indian res. but I didn't find that out til later.

Good job on taking him down though. We had a couple of 'em get out here two years ago... they would go find horses in pens, jump in and gore the horses to death, and then start running again. They killed a lot of horses.

 

[Gimpster]

That's a job
Get any choice cuts out of the deal ?

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[LeeDoo]

Yeah, got pretty much whatever meat I wanted. Not the biggest fan of buffalo though. I prefer elk, but hey it was free!

 

[Gimpster]

I hear ya, elk is better in my mind
Beefalo was popular around for a while, I can handle that better than buffalo

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[Snow Fox]

I just cant believe you put it down with an M4 thats straight up freaky talent. I dont know anyone of the gun world that would even attempt to shoot a diseased buffalo with a tac .223, crazy bastad

Thanks for the compliment Nate, believe me if I ever get a chance to shoot another Buffalo I want a much bigger gun.

I was talking to someone today that knows a lot about Buffalo. From the way it sounds this Buffalo has been roaming around loose for the last two years. A bunch got loose and two were not found. He has been hanging out in Northeastern Albany County up in the rugged country near where the Laramie River cuts through the Laramie Range. It had been hiding up there for this long before it went nutty and started heading south. He was saying that a Bull Buffalo, when they are alone for such a long time will basically go nuts. He also said that they are excellent hiders when they want to be. They can then be very dangerous and nothing should get in their way. They instinctually head south, it is their ginetics. So I don't think he was diseased, basically he just lost his mind and went batty. It is a pretty crazy story, and I just happened to be included at the end.

 

[Snow Fox]

Helped butcher a couple... turns out they were poached of the crow indian res. but I didn't find that out til later.

Good job on taking him down though. We had a couple of 'em get out here two years ago... they would go find horses in pens, jump in and gore the horses to death, and then start running again. They killed a lot of horses.

Thanks,
Are you talking about Albany County? If so, this Buffalo could have been from the bunch that were running loose a few years ago. That is how long he has been feral out running wild. There were several put down a couple years ago. The one thing about Buffalo, when you are shooting them they just stand there and don't run very far. I guess a good reason why so many were killed and they almost became extinct.

 

[XC700116]

Between a muzzle break, a mercury recoil reducer, and alot of balancing to the action it kicks very much so like a .243. I can shoot it all day, for awhile when that was my main hobby it was my varmint gun. 70+ rounds a day easily. But even after reloading your still looking at $4.30 a round. And thats my low rent ammo. My competition ammo is about $17.90 a round, but all of my bullets are turned on a lathe from Germany with a BC of 1.128 those rounds are my mile+ shooters

Originally Posted by Nate
Had a guy from Michigan take my .338 cheytac out south of town by Wright and shoot one at 200 yards. Dropped like a sack of rocks with a 300gr Sierra MK goin 3718fps at the muzzle We were all impressed.



This aint a pistol budddy gun is almost 6' long and weighs about 16lbs

Yeah I know but I really like my hand cannon. Just couldn't resist feeding back a little guff. I still want to get my paws on a 50 BMG just for grins but I can't get past the price tag, for the gun and the ammo, for something that I'll probably never really use much.

 

[Snow Fox]

Here is a picture of the big brute.

 

[XC700116]

Yeah he ain't tiny is he.

by the way nice shootin Fox

 

[Gimpster]

he'd make a good rug

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[Nate]

Yeah I know but I really like my hand cannon. Just couldn't resist feeding back a little guff. I still want to get my paws on a 50 BMG just for grins but I can't get past the price tag, for the gun and the ammo, for something that I'll probably never really use much.

.50 has become obsolete and is a waste since Cheytac industries flooded the market on just exactly how a case should be engineered. My .338 Cheytac will embarass any .50 on and off the range, and even more so the .375 Cheytac.

Case dimensions of the Cheytac are a work of art in there very own, .50 had it for a long time, but all it is is a 30.06 on a 3:1 ratio. Same case dimensions as a 30-06 06 hasnt won any awards since the 60's or so.

Cheytac took Dakotas ideas and made it to there very own.

granted, Cheytac's weapons are built soley on the purpose of human targets, and not that of armor or anti-aircraft, thats where your .50 will be needed.

I use mine for neither and just the fact im just a peckerwood with too many guns

 

[LeeDoo]

Thanks,
Are you talking about Albany County? If so, this Buffalo could have been from the bunch that were running loose a few years ago. That is how long he has been feral out running wild. There were several put down a couple years ago. The one thing about Buffalo, when you are shooting them they just stand there and don't run very far. I guess a good reason why so many were killed and they almost became extinct.

Naw, it was up around the Lovell area... I've only been in Laramie for about a year, so that's all news to me.

Nate, you get to use your Cheytac on any prairie dogs yet?

 

[XC700116]

OK Nate you got my attention.

I checked out their website and all I can find info on is the .408. where can I find some more info on the "lighter" calibers? Ha ha "lighter" who would have ever thought I'd use that word in conjuction with a caliber like that

Oh by the way as soon as my move is done with I'll be bringing my A-bolts up to have a little more tuning done. Looking like Mid-November. I also gotta send out my new AR receiver for the build up on that. Sending it to Mike Milli. He's a friend of my Brother's so he's getting that job. Dang this is getting expensive again.

 

[Blu Du]

we have shot 2 buffalo. ended up taking them in the head. we were shooting in the neck untill the farmer said there spine is on the bootom of there neck. i didn't care for for the steaks but the hamburger was very good. shot one with a 280, 30.06

 

[switchback]

Between a muzzle break, a mercury recoil reducer, and alot of balancing to the action it kicks very much so like a .243. I can shoot it all day, for awhile when that was my main hobby it was my varmint gun. 70+ rounds a day easily. But even after reloading your still looking at $4.30 a round. And thats my low rent ammo. My competition ammo is about $17.90 a round, but all of my bullets are turned on a lathe from Germany with a BC of 1.128 those rounds are my mile+ shooters

Geezus Billy, we need to talk (Beverly Hills Cop)

 

[XXL]

I was in on the first of the Buffalo hunts when Montana enacted their hunting season. It was more of a shoot than a hunt( in later hunts they got skittish of humans and ran off, but not the first ones). It was comical, the press (all lefties and anti hunters ) all runnin' around in shoes and tennie runners in two feet of snow and ice, slipping and falling and freezing, big expensive cameras dunked numerous times in the snow. They were all pretty grossed out when it came to the gutting process, I told them that the steak they had last night came about the same way except that all the killin' and gross stuff was done in a giant slaughter house by workers that do it for people who don't have the guts to do it themselves. Then in the later years we worked security when they hauled the buffalo to the slaughter house in Livingston, they started out killin' them with big handguns like .357 Herret and such, then the guys started using their duty handguns .40 S&W and 9 mm's. They were above them shooting them right where the skull and spine meet. I don't know how close the Indians rode to the beasts but I bet they could have taken similar shots from horseback.

 

[Scott]

We raised buffalo for over 15 years....

To me shooting a buffalo isn't that exciting.

 

[Snow Fox]

We raised buffalo for over 15 years....

To me shooting a buffalo isn't that exciting.

I sure thought that it was rather exciting. Using an M4 with tactical ammo proved to be a challenge. Tactical ammo is designed for shooting humans and to not overpenetrate to prove dangerous to bystanders. It is definitely not designed for a 1500 pound critter like him.