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6:14p, 2/9/25
I'm posting this for a friend of mine in Northeast Colorado who has one of his trophy ten year old bulls offered for a hunt. Last year's top bull went to a Georgia hunter & that same hunter is returning this year for a 15 year old bull. Generally his hunts are sold at regional sportsman's & hunting shows which he will still attend but I suggested him to give the Tex Ag's site a try also. I know nothing about the hunt other than it needs to take place by the end of March. If you want contact information feel free to pm me & I will provide you with his contact info.
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6:50p, 2/9/25
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I'm just here for the comments.
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6:54p, 2/9/25
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Free rangeish one with my 45-70 is a bucket list item
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In reply to AgResearch • 6:58p, 2/9/25
I like the way you put that. "Free range-ish"
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7:04p, 2/9/25
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How much does it cost to process one of those bad boys?
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7:05p, 2/9/25
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I once saw picture pinned to a cork board at a small sporting goods store in Colorado … a man was posing with his trophy buffalo … in the back ground of the photo was a pickup truck and a couple of other buffalos laying around a pasture. Always seemed like an odd thing to pose as a trophy.
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In reply to AgResearch • 7:13p, 2/9/25
AgResearch said:
Free rangeish one with my 45-70 is a bucket list item

Bareback with bow and arrow wearing only loincloth, or GTFO.
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In reply to Deerdude • 7:15p, 2/9/25
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I guess a kink is a kink.
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7:18p, 2/9/25
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Do you get to pet it before shooting?
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7:19p, 2/9/25
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What's his name?
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In reply to Yesterday • 7:20p, 2/9/25
The processor used by the owner selling hunt charges 1.05 per lb. hanging weight, with weight being about 6 to 700lbs. Hunt does take place in large pasture and pens showed in pics used for pulling calves off and sorting cows. Big expense I would think is getting head mounted
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7:43p, 2/9/25
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Could we take him to Idaho and run him off a bison jump instead of shooting?
I saw this one near Challis, Idaho this summer so I know where to go.
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9:56p, 2/9/25
They will probably just run him out of his 0.05 acre pasture into a squeeze shoot so that "big game hunter" doesn't miss.
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11:00p, 2/9/25
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In reply to Mas89 • 6:41a, 2/10/25
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Could go to Plainview, Texas. The Plainview Point was found in a Bison Jump. Anyone who has been to Plainview will now express shock that there is a cliff that tall in Plainview
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In reply to CanyonAg77 • 7:11a, 2/10/25
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Hey I'm just looking for a reason to go back to Idaho/ Salmon River valley after the snow melts. I really want to buy something there so I have to go regularly. This is the actual jump site.
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In reply to Mas89 • 7:58a, 2/10/25
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I always wonder how many riders mis-judged the stopping point and went over with the bison.
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8:24a, 2/10/25
There is something special about the American bison to me. It's the one "game" animal I won't hunt, eat, or wear.
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In reply to Corps_Ag12 • 8:30a, 2/10/25
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Corps_Ag12 said:
I always wonder how many riders mis-judged the stopping point and went over with the bison.

My assumption is that buffalo jumps predate the modern horse. If an Indian had a horse, he chased the buffalo. Before they had horses, running them off a cliff was the way to kill them
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In reply to Mas89 • 8:40a, 2/10/25
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Buffalo jump in Plainview is a lot shorter and lot less scenic. JBut you can see it on the approach to RWY 22


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In reply to Cibalo • 8:56a, 2/10/25
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Cibalo said:
There is something special about the American bison to me. It's the one "game" animal I won't hunt, eat, or wear.


They are amazing animals but why wouldn't you support the consumption and by products from the animals from the ranchers. I understand that it's a stretch with the term hunting though. They could never survive in the wild again unfortunately except in our Parks out west. The ranches that raise them for profit do a tremendous job keeping their numbers up and the meat is great!
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In reply to tmaggies • 9:06a, 2/10/25
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The "hunts" from 1867 to around 1884 could not really be considered hunts as well. They were merely being slaughtered for the most part.

The herds now, like basically lots of game animals and their predators, have to be managed now by man because of man.
Better to hunt or humanely kill the older animals than have them die a pretty gruesome old death.
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Charismatic Megafauna
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In reply to CanyonAg77 • 9:19a, 2/10/25
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Also, buffalo jumps weren't necessarily cliffs where they fell to their deaths. Many were basically dead end canyons or blocked off gullies with indians hiding on the sides who then killed the trapped/disoriented bison with spears and rocks
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In reply to tmaggies • 9:19a, 2/10/25
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tmaggies said:
Cibalo said:
There is something special about the American bison to me. It's the one "game" animal I won't hunt, eat, or wear.


They are amazing animals but why wouldn't you support the consumption and by products from the animals from the ranchers. I understand that it's a stretch with the term hunting though. They could never survive in the wild again unfortunately except in our Parks out west. The ranches that raise them for profit do a tremendous job keeping their numbers up and the meat is great!
Yep. Lots of good work preserving Bison going on these days. Only a few places they live and even there, they are not a "hard" hunt. You just shoo them really.

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9:31a, 2/10/25
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Somebody dig up the Alaska thread where the guy had to raft back to civilization after killing a bison. That was a hell of a read.
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In reply to Charismatic Megafauna • 9:37a, 2/10/25
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Username fits?

The Plainview Point site is a very small cliff, maybe 20-30 feet. It was excavated and all of the Plainview Era bones removed in the 1950s. Since then, it became a caliche pit and trash dump, which seems a shame.

But the bones and relics are al gone, so I guess it doesn't matter
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9:39a, 2/10/25
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Do they cut the ear tag out before mounting the head
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9:40a, 2/10/25
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Many years back. (25 or more I think). There was an older rancher in far west Texas that had around 10,000 acres or more that had some Bison and did limited hunts.
He really tried to make the hunt as challenging as possible as you hunted off horseback and used Shilo Sharps rifles he had with open tang sights and were only allowed to get so close.
It was a whole experience thing. You camped out with only what your horse could carry…. just a bed roll…camp fire, no tents etc.
One of the hunters we had on our place told us about it and showed us pictures. Can't remember the name of the ranch or the guys name or even if he is still around.
I thought that would be a pretty cool experience.
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In reply to Cibalo • 9:48a, 2/10/25
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Cibalo said:
There is something special about the American bison to me. It's the one "game" animal I won't hunt, eat, or wear.
You are missing out on good eating. Sucks to be you.
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9:59a, 2/10/25
If you love the American Bison you should probably hunt/eat/wear them. That creates demand for the animal which gives it value
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In reply to schmellba99 • 10:06a, 2/10/25
schmellba99 said:
Cibalo said:
There is something special about the American bison to me. It's the one "game" animal I won't hunt, eat, or wear.
You are missing out on good eating. Sucks to be you.


Probably sucks to be you as well
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10:06a, 2/10/25
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I was lucky enough to kil a free ranging Buffalo on our cattle lease in the palo duro canyon in 1994. This herd was part of the original Goodnight herd before they captured all them and moved them to the state park at quitaque. I got a beautiful mount. As far as the meat. I wasn't a fan of. Better have a good set of
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In reply to nealan • 10:06a, 2/10/25
nealan said:
If you love the American Bison you should probably hunt/eat/wear them. That creates demand for the animal which gives it value


I love dogs too. Doesn't mean I need to hunt/eat/wear them.
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In reply to Cibalo • 10:09a, 2/10/25
Dogs weren't almost exterminated from the landscape and struggling to hang on. I respect your opinion though. As long as you're open to other's hunting eating and wearing them
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In reply to nealan • 10:14a, 2/10/25
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Yep. Perfect example is there are more Addax, Scimitar Horned Oryx, and Dama Gazell's under high fences in Texas than in their native homelands. They are all three considered critically endangered in their native lands.
As long as people hunt them, enjoy having them and like eating them here in the U.S. they won't go extinct.
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