reasonable price buffalo hunt

[redneck]

anyone know of a reasonable price hunt. don't need the meat only the hide and a video of a fair cahse hunt. I ll be using a 75 cal flintlock trade musket. prefer east of the miss river

 

[Carl Fowler III]

Don't know of any hunts...but sure do know buffalar meat is mighty tasty and you gits lots of it! If'n you go, be sure to give us the details! :v

 

[redneck]

de tails I don't eat tails only sirlon and tenderlion

 

[Karl Helweg]

http://www.chiniak.net/buffalo/ There are a few other Alaska hunts that you can easily Google.

I'll be glad to take that nasty meat off your hands if you are giving it away. :wink:

Doug seems like a nice guy and good guide if you would prefer a wild hunt: http://www.interioralaskaguides.com/Bison.html There is a "Transfer of Possession" form right in the back of the ADF&G regulation book.

 

[Vaino]

Don't know what you're trying to achieve, but a "fair chase" buffalo hunt east of the Mississippi? Can't eat either the hide or the video..... so, what's up?......Fred

 

[Sean Gadhar]

anyone know of a reasonable price hunt. don't need the meat only the hide and a video of a fair cahse hunt. I ll be using a 75 cal flintlock trade musket. prefer east of the miss river

If you have not dealt with a "green Buffalo hide" do NOT under estimate what you are getting your self into. As a boy my neighbor had a saying "it'll take three men and a boy" He might have been a Buffalo skinner in another life. Best you bring help if your gona try to work that hide your own self.

On a side note if you hunt out west let me know I'll try to come help you get that hide in your ??Trunk?? :shocked2: :idunno: ?? I'll even bring 3 or 4 coolers to haul away that meat you don't want :grin:

 

[George T.]

I did a bunch of searches and did a bunch of reading. The cheapest that I came up with is $1400 for a cow hunt. It was in one of the Dakota's. There was a 80 cent a pound processing fee also and the hide care was extra also.

All in all not my idea of cheap. Geo. T.

 

[54ball]

For East of the Mississippi your going to have to have this.

 

[Carl Fowler III]

You do realize that most people on this forum will not recognize what that is....right? Although it is timely! :v

 

[Rifleman1776]

I did a bunch of searches and did a bunch of reading. The cheapest that I came up with is $1400 for a cow hunt. It was in one of the Dakota's. There was a 80 cent a pound processing fee also and the hide care was extra also.

All in all not my idea of cheap. Geo. T.

Strikes me as a reasonable price.

 

[Sean Gadhar]

You do realize that most people on this forum will not recognize what that is....right? Although it is timely! :v

Did you just call us Eloi or Morlocks :grin:

 

[Spikebuck]

The Lower Brule Sioux Reservation near Chamberlain, SD has reasonably priced buffalo hunts. One does have to draw, however. Non-tribal individuals are allowed into the draw.

 

[Bon Sauvage]

Love it!

 

[zimmerstutzen]

Heard of a buff farmer somewhere about 40 miles from Penn State that lets guys into his pasture to shoot a buff. All processing etc is the shooter's problem. Heard, that the guy charges a $1.00 to $1.25 a pound dead weight for the animal. Price is supposed to include him lifting it with his back hoe for skinning and quartering. Unfortunately, I think that rules out having a USDA butcher shop from processing it. Owner charges more to take them for slaughter. In the late fall, a buddy and I might split one. I currently don't have facilities to hang it to age. He wants the head but not the hide. I know what a pain the hide is, once priced getting a hide tanned for a robe. a decade old used car was cheaper.

 

[Sean Gadhar]

ok I guess I'll be the one to say it.....


How many Buffalo are you gona hunt in your life??

Because if it's just this one. Well,5 years from now on that chilly morning at a big rendezvou when you have that robe over your shoulders sipping coffee with everyone. And someone asks "say RJ, I hear tell you killed that Buff, tell us about it.

:nono: You don't want to say, "she was eaten corn from a bucket and I got a green mark on my ramrod when I shot using the guys john deer for a rest. :redface:

Just my opinion :idunno: but a guy with a buff robe is a reason to sit and listen to the tale.

****Have one you want to tell******

I know you said fair chase, I just wanted to keep that thought up front in your mind. :v

 

[zimmerstutzen]

There's no doubt that a farm raised buff is killing meat, not anywhere near fair chase. But considering that public buff is pretty much off limits and most are privately owned, how many spreads are big enough to actually have unfenced buffalo to chase. Except for those few, it is simply the size of the pen containing the buff.

There is a well known "hunting preserve" on a river island quite near here. The "wild" boar walk up to the hunters thinking the farmer is there with the feed cart, because they only associate humans with dinner time. Like I say, killing meat, not really hunting.

 

[crockett]

I was checking out prices about a year ago and my recollection was there was a place in Colorado where for $4,000 you could get a trophy bull and then two or three places in Kansas, etc where for around $1,500 you could shoot a good sized cow.
It all depends on what you are trying to accomplish. If you want to have fun and get a lot of good meat the cow seems like a good deal. The mountain men shot cows because they are better eating so a cow is PC. If you get 400 pounds of meat and figure $4.00 a pound is a cheap price for beef in a lot of areas, well 400 x 4= 1,600. You get the price of the hunt back plus you had all the fun. Seems like a good deal.
My buffalo hunt never materialized. I thought it would be great to do it with a bunch of other mountain man era muzzle loaders and then butcher the animals in the traditional way, instead of doing it like a deer, prop the cow up and split the hide on top and down both sides and take off the hump ribs and then do a boudin with the intestine and tenderloin and smash up the marrow bones and eat the fat. An experience never to be forgotten.

 

[Little Wattsy]

anyone know of a reasonable price hunt. don't need the meat only the hide and a video of a fair cahse hunt. I ll be using a 75 cal flintlock trade musket. prefer east of the miss river

"Fair chase" is relative as most herds are privately owned... but you can get a sneak and stalk in Oregon for about $5K on a bigger bull.

 

[Kapow]

You are a funny bugger!