IR
Thanks so much for the great information! You did a good job of describing it and I understand it. Not at all how I thought they may have done it.
Everyone with a Sharps or BPCR rifle should hunt a buffalo at least once! Would love to have had you out here but unfortunately I had to retire from buff hunts due to health reasons (cancer treatments) which really drag me down. I am really going to miss the hunts (14 years worth) and all the great people I have met from around the country (48 of 50 states) and the many friends we have made, including many on this forum.
Rounded up and sold the herd the first week of April which was an experience in itself as they were never in a corral.......makes for some exciting times
I will send you a PM re: some possible recommendations and advice on buff hunting. My last buff hunt for myself is a few posts down on the hunting forum, "the guide gets to go hunting" to give you an idea of what the sandhills here look like. I have dispatched a lot of buff, but this was the first occasion I had to plan a hunt and brought my wife along as videographer and camera lady. I have kept detailed anatomy carcass pictures from a lot of our hunts over the years which are really a great aid in determining shot placement. A lot of learned behavioral characteristics of buffalo. Most of our hunts over the past 5 years have been with BPCR rifles. Lots of advice to future buff hunters regarding that
If you talk nice to Mike on here maybe you can get him to send you a PDF file of Edition # 2015-1 of "The American Sharpshooter" , a great publication by the way of C. Sharps. An article by Dick Saveage of his buff hunt in 2014 here with his 45-110 c. sharps "old buffalo gal". Dick is a heck of a shot and also my mentor. Some good advice in the article on buff hunting as well. 100 yard between the eyes shot on purpose. Been trying to get him to do that for a couple years. He practiced a lot before attempting. I took a rogue bull with a between the eyes one time at 100 yards with my patch and ball .50 cal Hawkens after he put the chase on my wife and I. Head shots are extremely tough. Anyway probably more than you wanted to know
Just got back in from shooting my own C. Sharps 45-110 PPwith heavy barrel. Doing pretty well at 600 today.
Thanks again!
RR
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