S&W 500 Takes Buffalo

[grit]

This guy took a buffalo at 100 yards with an unscoped 4" 500...

One Shot, Clean Kill

Nice shot!!!

 

[2Loud4You]

I agree, nice shot.

 

[duckloads]

Shooting an animal while it's laying down?!! I don't have the words.

 

[Iggy]

Whut duckloads sed!!

At least they got it out of the corral...

 

[mod34]

Niiiiicccccceeeeee

I didn't even have the stomache to finish watching it. What a "sportsman". A- -

 

[DeathGrip]

Maybe he should'a started a stamped?I don'no...

 

[conn ak]

Looked a bit closer than 100 yards.

 

[G-Mac]

Underwhelming at best.

 

[mod34]

He could have just saved the cost of one round of .500 ammo and knocked it in the head while it ate corn out of the trough at dinner time.

 

[grit]

I did not grow up hunting, so I am definitely learning etiquette as I go. I wasn't aware that shooting an animal that was laying down was a bad thing. Please let me know if there is a lesson to be learned from this.

 

[Crazy K38]

shooting an animal laying down is like shooting a man in the back while running from you unarmed, VERY unethical. Same is to be said for dove that have landed on a branch or ducks on water. Yes it was a good shot with a pistol but as the same time it was an unethical shot. Some people still go by the rules of hunting some don't

 

[Hermann]

1. I do not think this is at 100 yards.
2. This is not hunting, just killing

- there is no pride in something like this, I agree with Crazy K38 100%: VERY UNETHICAL!
- I would not consider this guy a fellow hunter.

 

[2Loud4You]

There are some interesting responses here compared to hunting hogs with night vision and thermal imaging.

 

[Swissman]

Originally posted by Hermann:
1. I do not think this is at 100 yards.
2. This is not hunting, just killing

- there is no pride in something like this, I agree with Crazy K38 100%: VERY UNETHICAL!
- I would not consider this guy a fellow hunter.

+1 what Herman said!!

I guess that I can say it with less words than Herman: "What a ringmuscle!"

Swissman

 

[duckloads]

There are some interesting responses here compared to hunting hogs with night vision and thermal imaging.

There are those who might think that killing ferrel hogs, by whatever means possible, is just protecting their livelyhood as farmers or whatever. I don't remember where, it might be here in Alabama, but hunting / killing ferrel hogs is open season year round. An invasive species can certainly destroy an ecosystem.

I was kiking on the Appalachian Trail the last few years. When we were hiking through the Smokies, we were told to be on the look out for "Government hog killers" who came out at night with night vision goggles to kill the ferrel hogs that were tearing up the mountains.

I like eating my steaks and chops, and I used to like duck hunting more than breathing air. BUT, walking up to an animal and killing him while he chews his cud in the guise of a "hunt"?!!!........I still don't have the words.

 

[glypnir]

If buffalo aren't lying down, they are walking up to check you out. And that's generally the job of the big males.

And, so far as I know, there are no buffalo wandering around free, except in and near Yellowstone.

I won't call them domesticated, however. I know a manager of a ranch that has buffalo (and elk). He says they make sure that the males are gone one way or another before they get past 3 years old.

Apparently 10 year old males think it's fun to flip pickup trucks over.

I have no real desire to "hunt" buffalo, but I sure like to eat them.

 

[duckloads]

I have no real desire to "hunt" buffalo, but I sure like to eat them.

I've never had any buffalo. My local market has some on occasion. I guess somebody's got to knock them on the head. I'll have to get some someday. If I really like it, I might get the urge to knock one on the head myself.

Be safe.

 

[grit]

Thanks for the responses fellas...good info.

Buffalo is good eatin'...very lean and tasty. If you're ever passing through Oklahoma, there's a restaurant right on I-40 about an hour west of OKC that makes great buffalo burgers and steaks.

 

[zercool]

From 17 seconds of film it's tough to tell whether he had to to stalk/crawl to that spot, but I kinda doubt it too.

Local farmers sometimes get nuisance deer tags which allow the taking of does (no antlers, no spots, no fawns in attendance) over the spring and summer. I've used these a few times with a friend, and we don't call that "hunting" either. We drive to the edge of a hayfield or beanfield, walk in a hundred yards or so, and set up a camp chair about an hour before sunset. If a deer walks into the field, we shoot it. (And clean it and butcher it.) It's "shooting". Or "killing" if you prefer... but it sure isn't hunting. Meat still tastes good though.

 

[BobsSmith]

Not too impressed sorry. I have seen pictures of Buffalo "hunts". If you can call it a hunt.

Looks like it would be like shooting a cow in a pasture.