Alberta Buffalo Shoot, not a hunt. Filled the freezer with a big bull.

[bearpaw]

As for Bearpaw your comment about Bison hunting, you ought to try Wild Bison for a fun hunt, they aren't the same as the ranch one at all, pretty wary about everything...  Ranch Bison is a shoot but wild is totally excited, don't knock it before you tried it...

Perhaps I should have worded it better, I wasn't knocking the buffalo, I like to hunt anything, I was just commenting because I didn't think buffalo are as wary as other animals. Perhaps it's because the wild ones I have seen (Utah and Montana) did not have heavy hunting pressure, so they just weren't very wary. I did not think they reacted much differently than the ones I have hunted on private ranches in MT and SD.

I have never been around the wood bison in northern canada, perhaps they are much wilder acting and perhaps I made an improper assumption about them.

[cohoho]

You ought to put in for the draw in AK, a couple of different herds, crappy odds but do able....  Very wary, alot more than Moose where for certain... They'd spot us and be gone, ran like crazy like the movies show.  Super cool when they came thundering by, such power and rumbling when there was 20-30 going by.  On the ranch in Montana yea, I'd agree 100%, they moved only when the truck door came open, other than that they thought it must have been feeding time and stayed near..  Except for the four or so that escape the fence, they never looked back at all...

[robb92]

Looks like you had a good time!!! Would love to fill the freezer with one someday!

[bearpaw]

cohoho, if I hunt alaska it will probably be for brownies, sheep, or caribou. We are satisfied with the buffalo bull my wife has mounted and for meat I'll just go to another ranch or for a wild one I might someday get lucky and draw Utah, but thanks for the advice anyway, I appreciate that and will remember in case my priorities change someday.

This sounds like a really good deal in Canada, I have friends in Whitecourt I have been promising to visit someday anyway, they may even know the guy with the buffalo.

[7mmfan]

I'd love to harvest a buffalo one of these days. A few of us are heading back to Wyoming next year to deer hunt and i've thought about looking into a buffalo along the way somewhere.