Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Other Big Game => Topic started by: Kent Hunter on January 30, 2009, 11:05:10 PM
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Hey Cohoho. This is especially for you. Your were kind enough to share some photos of your bison mount with me last year when I was trying to decide on the type of mount that I wanted for my bison. I had him done with a slight left turn. He measures 4'2" from the top of his hump to the bottom of the briskit and 4' even from the wall to the tip of his nose. He's a big boy. I'm very pleased with the results.
Also my friend, because of your experience and great stories of your bison hunts in Alaska. My hunting partner and myself are starting to research those same hunts. We are going to start putting in for the draw starting this year.
(https://hunting-washington.com/cpg/albums/userpics/10102/DSC02643%7E0.JPG)
(https://hunting-washington.com/cpg/albums/userpics/10102/DSC02644.JPG)
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The horns on him are massive. I wouldn't know a good score if it hit me in the head but they are some serious horns on that guy. This one was at a game park near Girdwood, south of Anchorage that I used to always go look at for size estimates before we'd head out hunting, man I think yours beats this beast... I got a book of information if you get drawn, truthfully, nothing like your hunt for this one, extremely wild and weary but still no matter what fun as heck for any of them... Good job...
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:dunno: I don't know cohoho. Kent hunters bufflo doesn't quite have the afro yours does. May be making the horns look a bit smaller. Though I think Kent Hunters has a bigger diameter at the base.
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WOW!! That wild bull is fantastic. I sure hope I get drawn in the next few years. Great picture Cohoho.
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Wow! Nice Mount.
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That one isn't wild he is at the Gridwood nature park, he is old as the hills and extremely huge body wise... This was first of spring so his winter fur is full right now and and JJ Afro was making the horns look littler than they appear... I got gobs of pictures of him, and keep looking at all the other bulls at every angle to be sure of what I was shooting when I went up in Delta Junction. The extremely huge ones are easy to pick out, but the wild ones don't really have the chance to grow, but several have been taken, they just don't grow like the captive ones do... It was the younger bulls in the winter after their junk has curled inside that are difficult to tell apart from old cows, except for the diameter of the horn and curve, especially at 100 plus yards or more... Thank goodness we always shoot on opening day while their stuff hangs low to identify them better... :chuckle: And besides there is a serious fine for shooting the wrong species... Ouch... Here identify which ones are bulls and which ones are cows, remember they aren't going to be this still while their feeding... It is hard at certain angles...
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Nice trophy, KH!
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Very nice, KH! Gets a bit crowded with them big 'uns on the wall, huh?
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Good pics!!! Would love to hunt one someday.
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The top picture of them staring was this situation: I was helping a friend that got drawn and he was down the edge of the field about three hundred yards the other way, tried to move in on them a bit and let them get a wiff of me or a small sight and move in his directions, but they cut across this big field instead and they didn't of course go the direction intended and they froze and stared - then they got very nervous and stomping crazy looking at me, from about 75 yards. I was prone and was in the middle of this incredibly huge field with no where to go. Thought they were going to go ahead and charge all together... Finally had to stand up and move out of that immediate area quickly, they ended up going the opposite direction towards my buddy, but somehow he never got a shot off, they were just moving to much to ID a good bull from the group.. He did end up getting one a few days later...
