advice on hunting rifle for Bison

Far more important is to take along 4 or 5 of your biggest and dumbist friends to do the heavy lifting!! Bison are big and heavy!!
 
gunsmith1951 said:
Do you like that caliber?:nest:
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I'm more of a fan of the 6.5x55 Swede and for a Bison trip I would just haul out my 45/70 (loaded with TSX) but all this talk of 9.3x62 has me taking a peak at that cartridge. :D

Gibbs505 said:
Far more important is to take along 4 or 5 of your biggest and dumbist friends to do the heavy lifting!! Bison are big and heavy!!
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IMHO this sounds like the best advice in the thread. :D
 
With all this 9.3x62 talk in this thread, I think it only fitting that the 35Whelen should be mentioned as a very good choice as well.



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They're just dinks to deal with, period. When the quarters weigh 300 lbs there's no easy way to deal with them. Just trust in good old fashioned Norwegian Steam!
 
I finley got in tuch with alberta wild life and its a no-go for bison so this hunt will have to wate.
Deer,and Elk are okay but not bison.
Soo nex year I will put my name in the LEH draw for Bison in BC
thanks guys
 
carverk said:
I finley got in tuch with alberta wild life and its a no-go for bison so this hunt will have to wate.
Deer,and Elk are okay but not bison.
Soo nex year I will put my name in the LEH draw for Bison in BC
thanks guys
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Hey Carverk, don't you have those wild long hair hippie cattle that you can hunt year round on the eastside of the north island? I've heard about them but never seen one on any of my trips to Haida Gwaii.
 
hippie cows

hawk-i said:
Hey Carverk, don't you have those wild long hair hippie cattle that you can hunt year round on the eastside of the north island? I've heard about them but never seen one on any of my trips to Haida Gwaii.
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haahaa We do have hippie cows and two legged hippie's!
We had a rookie RCMP who came across a fild full of cow's thinking thay where wild cow's he empted two lee endfild magazines on sum poor farmers herd of cattle thinking thay were hippie cow's haha
The cop's had to put them in a dump truck and sold them cheep LOL
We all have dun sum dum-ass thing when we where young haha but nothing that crazzy
 
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carverk said:
I finley got in tuch with alberta wild life and its a no-go for bison so this hunt will have to wate.
Deer,and Elk are okay but not bison.
Soo nex year I will put my name in the LEH draw for Bison in BC
thanks guys
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Why? As bison aren't classified as game or domestic animals, I don't understand the problem. - dan
 
dan belisle said:
Why? As bison aren't classified as game or domestic animals, I don't understand the problem. - dan
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The wild population of Wood Bison, which is a subspecies of the American Bison (Plains Bison), is listed as threatened in Canada and they are considered a "game" animal in Alberta.

I posted the following link in the first page of this thread. It answers many questions.
http://www.mywildalberta.com/Hunting/GameSpecies/documents/BisonHuntingEducationBooklet-July2010.pdf

As for the "farm" or domesticated" Bison, I believe there are no restrictions...so you can buy one from a farmer/rancher and shoot it at any time of the year.
 
dan belisle said:
When did that happen? We used to just go north and hunt them whenever. - dan
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I don't know for sure but my guess would be long enough that even if you are 70 years old today you would have suffered some serious consequences had you been caught! If you are native then maybe you had special rights? Regardless, the animals were thought to be extinct for many years and the Alberta herd was apparently only discovered in 1957. It was in the late '80s that their status changed from the "endangered" to "threatened".
 
Wasn't that long ago. Because the bison weren't game animals, nor domestic, nor protected, you could just track them into the Caribou Mountains and hunt them whenever. Winter was best for access. I recall stopping at the High Level F&G office to see if they were aware of the herds whereabouts on the way in, and they didn't mention anything about protected bison. Just told us to stay out of the park and watch out for woods caribou. - dan
 
dan belisle said:
Wasn't that long ago. Because the bison weren't game animals, nor domestic, nor protected, you could just track them into the Caribou Mountains and hunt them whenever. Winter was best for access. I recall stopping at the High Level F&G office to see if they were aware of the herds whereabouts on the way in, and they didn't mention anything about protected bison. Just told us to stay out of the park and watch out for woods caribou. - dan
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Anything out of the park is fair game. On the west side side of the park Agriculture Canada is deathly afraid of anthrax and brucelosis are going to be transferred from bison to cattle and they would like to destroy the herd. Anything out of the park is also fair game.
In McMurray they have been hunted as long as I can remember.:welcome:
 
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