The 243 Winchester vs Buffalo

Funny story....we head shot a full size 9 year-old Wood Bison with a 250gr Hornady Interlock out of a .338. Thing rolled over just like that video. While I jumped in and out of the pick up dodging another pissed off bull I managed to hook it up to a pickup, and we dragged that beast to a safe area to hang, skin and quarter it. Roughly 20 minutes later I was peeling back the ultra thick hide around the rear shank to stick a meat hook in when the SOB started trying stand up. That would be the bull that had a bullet hole in its forehead from a .338 Win Mag. After a bloody mad scramble to grab the nearby 45/70 a 350gr Hornady in the ear finally settled him down for good.
The .338 bullet hit the forehead and bent riding up through the heavy bone and into the boss area at the top of the skull. It was incredible how that massive amount of bone redirected all that SD and energy and stopped it in inches.

I am a minimum 30-06 with a 200gr premium on the wild boys for sure. Through the shoulders is safer than in the face.
 
rem338win said:
Funny story....we head shot a full size 9 year-old Wood Bison with a 250gr Hornady Interlock out of a .338. Thing rolled over just like that video. While I jumped in and out of the pick up dodging another pissed off bull I managed to hook it up to a pickup, and we dragged that beast to a safe area to hang, skin and quarter it. Roughly 20 minutes later I was peeling back the ultra thick hide around the rear shank to stick a meat hook in when the SOB started trying stand up. That would be the bull that had a bullet hole in its forehead from a .338 Win Mag. After a bloody mad scramble to grab the nearby 45/70 a 350gr Hornady in the ear finally settled him down for good.
The .338 bullet hit the forehead and bent riding up through the heavy bone and into the boss area at the top of the skull. It was incredible how that massive amount of bone redirected all that SD and energy and stopped it in inches.

I am a minimum 30-06 with a 200gr premium on the wild boys for sure. Through the shoulders is safer than in the face.
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Nice hearing more of this said, a lot of folks seem to think deer rifles are good for everything in North America (not lumping the .338 in that of course). There is a pretty big step between Bison and everything else. Hell of a story by the way, I'm sure you were more surprised than him.
 
Not allowed in the Yukon, has to be larger than a .308 and .338 is recommended. That being said, I take Mountain Caribou and Porcupine Caribou with a .243 100grain bullet all the time. Most are one shot kills with the bullet going through the animal. Shot placement is the key. Bison can be tough and laws are drafted for the average shooter to reduce the amount of wounded animals.
 
Ardent said:
. . . There is a pretty big step between Bison and everything else. Hell of a story by the way, I'm sure you were more surprised than him.
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And that was one of them puny little plains buffalo at that, never mind one of the monsters that roam Northern BC and the Yukon! We saw one along the Alaska Highway a few years back that dwarfed the African buff that adorns the wall in our living room. A .243 for bison? Apparently common sense isn't as common as we'd like to think.
 
Publication of stupidity incites more stupidity... This phenomenon is increasing rapidly in this technologically connected world... To all of our detriment.
 
^ This.

These idiotic clowns "proved" that a close-range head-shot under ideal conditions at a stationary target will kill a large animal. Great. Now they "know" that their .243 is a bison cartridge.

Up next: they try the same thing, but at 800 yards using a laser rangefinder and a Huskethingamabob scope. I bet we won't get to see that video.
 
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