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<blockquote data-quote="CMP70306" data-source="post: 2406831" data-attributes="member: 36999"><p>Turns out the guide actually has one better. They had a bull that they named Brutus, huge bull with very wide horns and an orange strip of fur on each side of his head instantly distinguishable from all the other bulls. They liked him so much that he was off limits for the hunts and got to live 16 years until his health started to decline. They decided that it was his time so a friend of the club brought an original 1874 Sharps manufactured in 1876 and loaded with black powder and paper patch bullets. The hunter dressed in a bison fur coat and the rest of the staff dressed in traditional Western attire for the hunt. </p><p></p><p>Once it was done everyone got to shoot the rifle and get their picture taken with Brutus to give him a proper send off before they got a full body mount done and he now resides at the entrance of the lodge where he gets to great everyone.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The guide was telling me that they did a hunt one time for the club and left the bison out overnight in 10 degree weather thinking it would be fine to skin the next day. When they skinned it the next morning they actually found that the hide retained so much heat that some of the meat on the down side had actual started to spoil. </p><p></p><p></p><p>The rifle is a Shiloh in 45-70 and I was using 42gr of H4198 to push the 402gr Hammer at around 1800 fps.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CMP70306, post: 2406831, member: 36999"] Turns out the guide actually has one better. They had a bull that they named Brutus, huge bull with very wide horns and an orange strip of fur on each side of his head instantly distinguishable from all the other bulls. They liked him so much that he was off limits for the hunts and got to live 16 years until his health started to decline. They decided that it was his time so a friend of the club brought an original 1874 Sharps manufactured in 1876 and loaded with black powder and paper patch bullets. The hunter dressed in a bison fur coat and the rest of the staff dressed in traditional Western attire for the hunt. Once it was done everyone got to shoot the rifle and get their picture taken with Brutus to give him a proper send off before they got a full body mount done and he now resides at the entrance of the lodge where he gets to great everyone. The guide was telling me that they did a hunt one time for the club and left the bison out overnight in 10 degree weather thinking it would be fine to skin the next day. When they skinned it the next morning they actually found that the hide retained so much heat that some of the meat on the down side had actual started to spoil. The rifle is a Shiloh in 45-70 and I was using 42gr of H4198 to push the 402gr Hammer at around 1800 fps. [/QUOTE]
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