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I've looked at all previous buffalo threads and they have me excited!

Thanks in advance.

This is a cow taken on the Kaibab Plateau, AZ in August 2014. Eight years old, estimated 850#, 88" P&Y (minimum is 100"). The meat yield is much greater on Buffalo than on elk, moose, deer, etc. My family still eats Buffalo about 3-4 times per week.

Good Luck Muche!

I will not pass a mature bull but I'd like to see what a 3-4 year old looks like compared to a 6-8 year old. I'm sure body size will be a good indication. Hopefully this summer I'll get to look at a bunch while scouting.

http://www.coueswhitetail.com/forums/topic/57917-2015-house-rock-buffalo-hunt/

There are more nice bulls on the coueswhitetail.com site under buffalo forum.

Sureshot, I have a tag for here in Alaska.

My friend did enter it in the Compton's Record Book for Traditional gear. Quite an accomplishment. C

The only thing I can add to judging Bison size is body size...as big as a VW bus! We were on a motorcycle trip through Yellowstone one summer. Some of the herd had wandered on to the road, so we stopped and gave them the right of way!

So.....here comes a cow with a giant bull in tow...walking down the center line...they both pass by at about 3 feet of my wife and I sitting on our bike....I said about 50 "Hail Marys" and I'm not even Catholic!

We look forward to your adventure!

Mark

I'm sure you have seen this picture before, but I'll take any excuse I can to post it again...109" even.

They like to swim too! This one is from Nahanni Butte, NWT

It will really help to see a few bulls next to each other while hunting I think.

Huntinelk that's an awesome bull! Love the photo. He looks real wide, do you have the tip to tip width measurement handy?

Thanks all, hopefully we can all learn a little something.

Gene

Good for you, brother! I hope you kill a beast! Please post pictures.

Read Steve Rinella book American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon

Great book on AK bison hunting.

Man it's fun to see where you came from and where you are going. Fun journey . Glad I get to be a part of it some times. Here's to a great fall. Hunt Dawg

Any more photos out there with scores?

Thanks again.

Notice the number of entries from Coconino County in AZ. That is the House Rock herd where Elkstabber got his and where I will hope to kill mine this summer. I have a cow tag for AZ though which is clearly not anywhere near as cool as an Alaska hunt for a Bull but I only paid $650 for my tag and only put in 3 times total. I'll take it for one of the few fair chase Bison hunts in the world.

I'm a member of PnY but have no idea how to search the record books for scores and locations. Can that be done online?

I've looked at the top ten at that link though, some real bruisers on there.

A full search cannot be done online of the records program. The books have all that info. If you want to borrow one, let me know. Or you can purchase them online :)

Mark

what was your setup?

Was real lucky on this one as all I was looking for was a decent looking Bull and this was the first one we found that I could stalk. After I pointed him out to my guide I asked him how good he was and he told me 15-16" (horn length) I told him that was good enough and went after him. After I had him on the ground I asked my guide again how good he was and he said 15-16", I told him it was over 18" after I spread my hand along his horn. He ended up at 18 1/4". I was plensently surprised and very very happy.

I should have service in the evenings to post a few updates. Will see how it all shakes out.

Thanks for all the pictures!

Good Luck. I believe that Bison are very underestimated as a game animal.

Good luck, Raobb

Good luck Nick. Bonk a big one!

The weather is great, not too cold at all and it looks to be sunny with little wind. Not quite normal for here this time of year, especially the wind. Normally it's blowing like crazy. Either way we aren't complaining.

On the way to our camp this eve we saw a big bull, all by himself, cross the road from public ground to a section of private I can hunt. That was nice to see.

Plan for the morning is to look around the place we are camping since we saw a few piles of buffalo scat nearby and it wasn't old.

After that, go talk to another place I've lined up which I think will be pretty good and it has access to the river so even if they aren't here, a few should be near the gravel bars and islands.

This should be a fun time. Either way, 6 months to try but each day we are losing a considerable amount of daylight.

Sunrise tomorrow is 753am.

Northern lights are out.

His was smaller, but "smaller" is really relative when discussing these beasts

Aaron

Best of Luck, Jeff

Third day we hunted in the morning where apparently there were around 40-50 in a field the eve before and had zero sightings. Went to ask another landowner for permission and he said sure. Scouted the borders of his property real quick and set up 300 or so yards from where the freshest sign was. My hopes were to spot some animals entering the field and then stalk them once in it.

Around 7pm I began to think about how if I didn't get one this trip it that the animals would be spookier, weather much colder and the lack of daylight. Just then my buddy caught movement. I waited for them to get behind a wind row and began my stalk. It took a bit but eventually was able to get to 48 yards of what I thought to be the best bull in the group. One arrow to his heart and around 30 seconds of wobbling I watched him fall over. Pretty incredible feeling.

Then we loaded him whole into the pickup and brought him home :)

One thing I'll add, the land owners in Delta Junction were some of the nicest I've ever encountered.

Rough scored him around 104. Will see come December how that pans out.

Congrats Nick

Good luck, Robb

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Just curious if you're willing to share, what broadhead did you use?

Awesome bull. Congrats!