Well Joe you should be back by now and I'm hoping for a successful trip/report
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I made it! ;D I also put this same hunt in two sections, here and in general hunting. I'm having trouble attaching pictures today so I will post this and add pictures after.
It was a sacred buffalo hunt and I went through the Native American smockings and prayers around a buffalo rug with all the tools used in the hunt and each of us were individually smocked along with. After that we would load up and drive to find the buffalo. When the buffalo were located we would get out and carefully get close to the herds. We were then instructed to ask for a bull willing to sacrifice itself to step away from the herd. I had seen this done several other times but could not hear as well but when I did it about five bulls stepped out around outside the herd, so I picked the one out that was pointed to and as told I asked the bull to present himself and when I did the bull looked forward and this is when I shot. I aimed at the axis just behind the head and at the shot the bull just folded up and his head hit the ground and he rolled over and did not even kick.
That 500 grain paper patched bullet did it's job, and the back up shooter did not get a chance. He stood and shook my hand and said that I was the first 45-70 shooter that did not require more than one shot that he had seen. I wondered if this was from most that use the lighter bullets but who knows. The bullet was recovered and weighs 431.4 grains which is not bad beings it crushed the atlas bone and was found under the skin on the far side.
I was initiated being my first bull and I ate the bulls last tear off his cheek and I also ate a bite of raw liver, heart and kidney which were not that bad but I would prefer liver over the others. ;D
My bull was also the last of the season and I got to attend the closing ceremony where the tobacco was passed in a pipe and prayers were given to the buffalo, land, water and all involved or anything or anyone else you wanted.
After a bull is shot we would surround it with vehicles to keep the other bulls away while the prayers are given to the downed bull. This also protected the hunter from the other buffalo while it is bled out and removed from the field for dressing.
It was a sacred buffalo hunt and I went through the Native American smockings and prayers around a buffalo rug with all the tools used in the hunt and each of us were individually smocked along with. After that we would load up and drive to find the buffalo. When the buffalo were located we would get out and carefully get close to the herds. We were then instructed to ask for a bull willing to sacrifice itself to step away from the herd. I had seen this done several other times but could not hear as well but when I did it about five bulls stepped out around outside the herd, so I picked the one out that was pointed to and as told I asked the bull to present himself and when I did the bull looked forward and this is when I shot. I aimed at the axis just behind the head and at the shot the bull just folded up and his head hit the ground and he rolled over and did not even kick.
That 500 grain paper patched bullet did it's job, and the back up shooter did not get a chance. He stood and shook my hand and said that I was the first 45-70 shooter that did not require more than one shot that he had seen. I wondered if this was from most that use the lighter bullets but who knows. The bullet was recovered and weighs 431.4 grains which is not bad beings it crushed the atlas bone and was found under the skin on the far side.
I was initiated being my first bull and I ate the bulls last tear off his cheek and I also ate a bite of raw liver, heart and kidney which were not that bad but I would prefer liver over the others. ;D
My bull was also the last of the season and I got to attend the closing ceremony where the tobacco was passed in a pipe and prayers were given to the buffalo, land, water and all involved or anything or anyone else you wanted.
After a bull is shot we would surround it with vehicles to keep the other bulls away while the prayers are given to the downed bull. This also protected the hunter from the other buffalo while it is bled out and removed from the field for dressing.
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Excellent Joe . Great pic's , write up and bullet performance , but then you don't have to convince any of us about the merits of paper patching 
Well you would think that we wouldn't have to convince anyone but probably about 40% of the folks shoot cast and another 59% shoot jacketed bulets. :Outfitter said:Excellent Joe . Great pic's , write up and bullet performance , but then you don't have to convince any of us about the merits of paper patching
Only if they knew better. Very few of us out there that shoot paper patched bullets but those of us that do know that it is the way. 8) 8) 8) ;D ;D ;D
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