21 Replies to “There’s a reason”

  3. All thru that story I was rooting for the bison. Especially in the wild, stupid has its own set of “rewards.” The fool got luck. I wonder how much meat he managed to drag back to his truck. Not much is my guess with an exhausted 72 yr old hunting partner. Hopefully that’ll make for a happy wolf pack.
    ALL across the prairies are sites called BUFFALO JUMP – or similar. Well here’s some news for all you tree hugging idiots who thought the 1st Nations were THE first eco-conscious Mother Earthers. Those buffalo did NOT jump off those cliffs because of chronic depression. They were stampeded. Most died but they know from bone records mane smashed spines and took WEEKS to die. Others broke legs and also died slow painful deaths. The natives camped out for a time until the stink got too bad, I guess. They made some boots and coats, gorged on fresh cheeseburgers and then made like a flock of birds leaving hundreds, sometimes thousands of dead and still dying animals. VERY eco conscious

  4. Three shots and he didn’t kill it?
    So many questions:
    How far away from as he? What size gun/ammo? Is he a terrible shot?

  5. Head-Smashed-in-Buffalo Jump is a prime example of, pardon the irony, whitewashing history. The archeologists that have excavated the site have found thousands on bones beneath the cliffs. Any thinking person has to only look at the size of a buffalo and realize that when the herd was driven over the edge the only animals that were properly butchered were the last ones over the edge. Drive a few hundred beasts over a cliff and then butcher and use all of the meat and hides would have been a monumental task before the meat started to rot. Each animal would have to be butchered in situ. Try butchering an 800 lb. animal in situ taking the meat and leaving the guts and then start on the animal that is below, doesn’t take long before you realize that you are not going to butcher and use all of the animals that have been killed. The best of it is the stronger of the herd is killed and never used as only the weaker animals are left at the top of the heap.

  7. Cue the PETA twits to CHEER the Bison for … teaching this evil hunter a lesson. Although I am not a hunter, and certainly not a Bison hunter, I think it is a little harsh to criticize this man’s hunting skills. Am I wrong in thinking that BIG game don’t automatically drop dead when hit like a video game image? Seems as though I have read that Moose are particularly resilient, and will charge the hell out of hunters who fail to make a perfect kill shot. I find it hard to believe that the average hunter is capable of a perfect one shot kill. And it seems to me that tracking your wounded prey is pretty much de rigor … and is actually the RIGHT thing to do … the humane and ethical thing to do. Not to just let the animal go to die and go to waste. As for me? I LOVE Bison burger!

  9. A farm friend raised buffalo and he herded them with horses. He once said that if a buffalo charges your horse jump off the horse. The buffalo can out run the horse and hopefully the buffalo will attack the bigger animal and not you.

  12. He probably bought Steel Jacket bullets, they are used for practice and sold cheap.. Years ago my buddy bought an Army & Navy 303 & ammo.. He went bear hunting and after firing 4 shots he ran like hell..Yep! steel Jackets

  13. Hard not to be a armchair quarterback on this… waiting for the animal to lie down and bleed out, and yes, if I was to track a wounded buffalo, my rifle would be in my hands, one in the tube, with my thumb on the safety.

  16. Agreed, Antenor, Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump does not exude good conservation methods. Back in the day, when I was with there with the Guides, we were told that the Indians believed that they had to kill the whole herd or any survivors would warn other buffalo who would then know to avoid the area.
    That being said, herding the buffalo to the jump and stampeding them at just the right time had to be an extremely tricky and dangerous business, particularly before the Indians obtained horses. Given the risks involved in the whole procedure, one can understand why they didn’t just cut out the animals they could harvest, leaving the rest behind.

  17. I’ve been hunting for over fifty years,and the guy in the article isn’t a very smart hunter. A hunter usually takes a moose with one or two kill shots,placement is vital.Some guys get desperate and shoot at a running animal three hundred yards away and then the chase is on.
    The only time I was ever challenged by a bull moose was just after I’d shot the cow he was with, ruining their romantic interlude. I threw a big stick about five feet long at him when he was about 50 feet away,and he ran off,thankfully,or he’d have been a dead bull,and I’d have had to explain him to the game warden.
    I wonder what caliber of rifle he had,should have been a .300 Win.Mag at minimum, better a .338 or better with big heavy slugs.A fellow I worked with hunted buffalo and used a .416 Rigby.
    The comments are fairly typical of the ignorant anti-hunter crowd,who wish the animal had killed the hunter,we’ve all heard that before.
    As for the Indians and the buffalo jumps, given that they had to dress,skin,and portion out the meat with stone tools, I bet the wastage was horrendous.

  18. While North America had only Bison; Europe, Asia and Northern Africa had Bison, Auroch and several related sub-species of both.
    The Auroch were the wild ancestors of our domesticated cattle. Except they were twice as big and probably twice as mean and had even bigger, sharper horns than the Bison (their very close cousin).
    For 1.8 million years, the Auroch were our favourite meal which is why they are highlighted in the cave paintings from Europe. Why did the Neanderthals have so many broken bones? It was from hunting Auroch (and Bison I guess as well). Imagine beef steaks that are twice as big, enough to feed whole tribe for a week.
    We hunted the Auroch to extinction, the last one died in 1627 in Poland.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurochs
    Of course, in four different locations, they were domesticated but it was apparently extremely difficult to do and took a lot of time and breeding. We bred them smaller as well probably because of the danger factor.

  20. Never hunted bison, but I wouldn’t even approach an apparently dead moose without my rifle ready, in case it suddenly stood up on me. Stumbling through the bush after a wounded animal with your rifle on your back??? This story makes no sense.
    It is a privilege to get to hunt a bison. Here in Alberta, there were 125 tags issued last year, and 15,641 applicants, so less than 1% were drawn in the lottery. Then you have to go way up in the northwest corner of the province to hunt them.

  21. If you’re a lousy shot you should take up a hobby other than hunting.
    There is no excuse for lacking the skill to make a clean kill shot I too was rooting for the buffalo in this guys case!

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