WB
Little more than caliber to consider...
Monday, March 25, 2019, 11:34

Personally, and have shot only one smaller Bison with a .51 cal., my small bore would be .375/235 gr. That would be the power level of a 375 Win. carbine and hoping to use very precise shot placement. In a revolver I'd have a little reservation of using anything under .41 and 220 gr. I've personally seen Gary bowl over a HUGE Buffalo bull, probably north of 2500 lbs. as it was closer to 6' at the back than not. He used a little .41 GNR G2 Contender Pirate barrel and a low power fixed Burris scope. I think the bullet was a 170 gr. Serria JHC or maybe the silhouette JFN. It was like you yanked the rug from under it. Perfect bullet placement.

I used a .510 GNR revolver and 410 gr. cast bullet at 1100 fps. It was all I could stand to shoot without flinching in my gun. I took a shot from maybe 30-40 yds. and his nose hit the grass. It was not dead at all, he just was incapacitated and could not stand with two broken shoulder bones. I had to shoot him in the neck point blank to finish him off. Sort of what Gary did from 50 yds. I did not trust myself with a neck shot from that distance.

Then again I read a story about Mike Ventrino that was not published. He and a buddy shot a Bison around 11 times over a several mile chase in the snow with huge period buffalo guns and ammo. One was a .50 something and I forget the other. In real world hunting stuff goes sideways many times and the Hero gets to taste humble pie.

It's all on you buddy, when the hammer drops!