trophy bison at hunt

[edward]

this is the trophy bison,1698bs field dressed.i learned a lot on that hunt.

[alukban]

You can't post a pic like that without details Sir!

Gun, load and distance please?! Nice!

[edward]

the pic is from about 1994,i was shooting my scope sighted ruger custom hawkeye in 44 mag.we had gone up a dry river bed to a dead tree to look what was going on.about 40 or so yards away was this bull.long story short i fired off a shot and was surprised it didnt fall.had a lot to learn in those days,was shooting a good solid bullet.any way,5 shots later it still was alive,it had walked off about 30 yards and laid down.the guide didnt want me to go after it as the owner had been gored the year before by a bull that was used by a couple of bow hunters for a pin cushon that had laid down and was thought dead,but he wasnt and the owner had approached the bull unarmed and paid a dear price by being thrown up a tree with a hole through his thigh.any,after about 30 mins i couldnt take it anymore and went in and shot it in the back of the head.that was that,not a good story but we learned a lot that day,since then we have killed around 10 or more bison for meat only,all head shots,over quick and fast.

[magnumwheelman]

A guy should look at the vitals for a lot of these animals before shooting them... we had the chance to shoot several for the meat from a local large fenced farm several years ago now... MRS cousin shot one using a 30-06, with 180 grain round nose bullets... put a nice 3 leaf clover shot pattern into the upper nose area from a facing down hill head on shot, trying to hit the brain or spine... darned thing just sat there starring at us for almost 3/4 hour before it went down...

we learned a lot shooting the 3 we got the chance to shoot, before they moved them out of the area...

nice buff BTW...