Buffalo

I just looked on the web site and the hunt is like everything else...it's gone up...I took what they called a spike bull..which was 20-24 months old..the total cost was 900 dollars..It now is 1125...
This isn't one of those hunts that you have to work at it or you come back empty...they are going to make sure you get your buffalo...and it is the experience that they're actually selling...that's why they incourage you to wear vintage clothing and use old rifles...the rifle I used was the oldest one I own...an old Remington 35...but most of the hunters used Sharps or other models...most were in 45-70 or bigger..like I said they are selling the experience and not just the buffalo...after supper at night and all the guns are put away, everyone has beverages of choice and set around the fire...the owner ( Lee Hawes ) will kinda get the conversation started by telling the history of the area...what it was once known as the( Great Slaughtering Grounds)..he will tell you how many buffalos it is estimated that were once killed in the area which was a tremendous number...also he explains how the natives actually killed them...most were not killed by shooting them with an arrow from a running horse, but were actually stampeded off of the cliffs and they actually would fall to their death..like I said..this isn't in the same class as an Alaska hunt but the price wasn't bad at the time... counting the meat and the hide...the hunter gets everything...It's one of those things that I am glad I went on and could actually afford it at the time...BUT...now with the cost of gas and everything else going up except for wages....probably won't happen again for awhile..the web site for the hunt is http://www.hawes.org/hunt/
Oh, one other comment...it was amazing to me just how tough these things are...I watched a big bull....I mean really big...anyway the guy shot him 6 times with a double barrel 60 caliber muzzle loader ....hit him really good...we followed him and his buddys for about 3/4 of a mile before he spit up the bits...but like I said...he was huge..Thanks for listening to me ramble....I apoligize if I wrote too much...