Jump to content
Sign in to follow this  
ARO

Wild Wyoming Bison

Recommended Posts

Got extremely lucky in 2009 and drew a NR bison tag in Wyoming. The wife and I headed out to Jackson the last week of Oct to try and kill a Tatanka. We hunted hard for 6 days, but could not connect on one. Saw plenty in the park, and had a close call mid week. By the time we got to them, an outfitter had shot 2 out of the group, and the rest headed for the hills. I headed back to MD empty handed, but told the wife I wanted to come back out in Dec, since the tag was good till Jan 3rd.

 

Flew back to Jackson solo mid Dec to try again. After a 4 hour hike, I was able to spot some tracks in the snow, and followed them till I caught up with a group of 6 bulls. Ended up taking my bull in the very north corner of the NER. Had to hire Tag-n-drag to bring horses and sleds in to get the bison out. It was an experience of a lifetime.....literally!

 

bison.jpg

 

bisonskull.jpg

 

105_1320.jpg

 

105_1340.jpg

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Thanks. We found the those grizzly tracks on the first trip, Needless to say we kept looking over our shoulder, all day.... :unsure:

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Wow ...wow and WOW....welcome and congrats on what looks to have been a great time.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

AWESOME! Way to hang in there and get the job done! Congrats, Looks like a great bull! Thanks for sharing the great pictures! Beautiful place. Welcome to the site!

 

Lance

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Thanks everybody. The only bummer of the whole experience, was a lesson learned the hard way. It was minus 22 F, the day I shot him, by far the coldest I've ever hunted in. When I went to take pix of him, my camera was toast. So I used my cell phone, and sent my wife the 2 pix you see. Then when I got home and went to get the pix off the mini sd card, it somehow got formatted , and all the pix were lost. So the only 2 pix I actually got of the bison, are those 2 grainy pix. The other pix are from the first trip. I'm still beside myself for letting that happen.

 

On a side note, I completely understand when people talk about a different kind of cold out west. If it was that cold here by the ocean, it would hurt your skin to go outside....lol

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
Sign in to follow this  

×