Buffalo Bob

[bobw]

Kurt my spikes hide is prime and really nice, I am going to call a guy today for fleshing and salting prior to shipping . The guy at the processing plant was a pro skinner and it is almost flesh less now. I don't think he moved more than 100 yds start to finish.

Dick, yeah it certainly gave a hint of what the old guys dealt with, dealing with horses instead of a Suburban would have meant atleast a 7-8 mile ride plus gutting skinning and quartering. We are sissies today.Can easily recommend Rick's operation but it may not be that simple for one to get booked with him. He has a backlog and enuf repeat customers that he is busy . One needs to talk to Rick and make his own arrangements. When I go back it will be for a 2 1/2 year old, not because of any reason other than after you split one with your ex. You sure wish it was bigger. My hanging halves were 315# s. I had the processer cut stks, round and chuck rsts and the rest ground, the stks and rsts totalled 100.4 lbs(they weigh and lable each pkg) and 86 pkgs of ground buffalo. So about 185#'s - or +. I might add that I had him process the tongue,liver and heart. I wanted to try all the stuff I've read about for 40+ years and not only that after gong shooting on Weds Rick and I went back out and picked up a 65# bag of buffalo chips for me to try to cast bullets on a bc fire and COOK with. Yeah I want to try it the way the old guys had to do it. We did some gong shooting Tues and Weds. My 40-70 shot okay at 200 yds and when we backed up to 400yds I got out my 50 3 1/4 and had it on target with the first shot. I think 400 is about as close as Ricks buff target needs whacking with a 50 as it left some serious dings there.Before we quit I gave it a cylinder full of 250 gr Keith style swc's out of my M29-3 6" sw 44 magnum and scored 2/6. With cold temps and the wind the gong shooting wasn't a long lived activity. On Weds one of Rick's friends came over and we shot some more. at 336 lazered yards the wind was blowing hard enuf that I had to hold square on the buffs hind quarter to compensate for the wind and keep them in the chest with my 45-2 7/8. With the ladder up I had to just cover the '3' line with the top of the slider for the elev. It was the kind of shooting that none of us gets enuf practice at. Great food and very comfortable cabin for the stay. Yes I'll try to go again. bobw