Posted on 03/02/2010 7:08:12 AM PST by decimon
Bison...yum.
a Maryland bison farm: www.gunpowderbison.com and they will ship!
It really didn’t take long to destroy the herds. But there were a lot of hunters. Hides were at a premium and it created an industry for awhile.
The military also encouraged it because it took their main source of food away from the Indians, prompting them to accept treaties and go on the reservations.
We have, or had (don’t know if they still are around or not...), a bison farm not far away from us here in North-Central Illinois. I never stopped, so don’t know if they sold local or not. But I’m pretty sure it was a commercial operation, selling to a national restaurant market.
All of that red makes it look an RNC wet dream.
Explaination of the map and on the continued efforts to get the Biodiversity Treaty parts and pieces enacted one way or another:
http://www.takingliberty.us/Narrations/usa/usa/player.html
In my county in Northern CA there was a ranch that grew Bison, but because they allowed hunters to go in and shoot some of them whenever the rancher wanted to harvest them, the greenies raised he** and the ranch went out of business. Now, instead of seeing Bison wandering the hills, we see cows, deer and other animals, but no bison.
Greenies have been the death of this country and they continue to dance on our corpse.
One of the biggest scams of the country is the myth that Buffalo went extinct, they were down to just a few but they rallied, thanks to Yellowstone and certain ranchers.
Guess they want another Johnson County War. OR: they have no clue what happens when free-range cattle bump up against widescale farming.
BINGO!
OK, a bison isn’t a killer whale. They’re still big, wild animals. When I went to Yellowstone a few years back, the rangers advised staying as far away from a bison as they did the grizzly bears.
Not that it made any difference to most people.
Exactly what I was thinking.
Wish I had room to raise a few. Buffalo meant is excellent and very low in cholesterol.
.45-70 should do the trick. Back in the day, they used up to .50-110, but those were all black-power cartridges.
See my post #10.
I’ve read where the 1886 Winchester (mine’s .40-82) was also chambered for the .50-110 at one time. It was called the ‘buffalo express’ or some such...
“wood bison”
The 45-70 and its variants killed most of the buffalo. 45-70, 45-90,45-100, 45-110 and the 45-120 are all good. The 50s came out at the very end of the shooting, the early 1880s, and didn’t play that much of a role.
45-70 is the proper size for a buffalo gun, but I would get a Past shoulder pad, (Magnum) as the recoil can really damage (yes, damage) your shoulder. These guns are very near artillery.
My favorite buffalo rifle is my H&R Buffalo Classic. Based on a very early design (1860s) it looks like an English sporting rifle with a break open action.
It is a real screamer.......
I had a bison ribeye a couple of weeks ago and it is difficult to put into words the degree of delicious.
Indeed, so.
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