April 8th, 1860; the spring buffalo hunt

[RanchRoper]

Well not really a buffalo hunt, but my targets were my buffalo today. Nice day, cold @19F but sunshine. Blinding glare in fact. I need to get the dark safety sunglasses I guess, but since the old frontier cowboys shot with no sunglasses I guess I can too. But it was VERY tough to see the little corner targets on my 2 twelve inch bigger targets.

Anyhow, 2 targets at 50 yards, off hand standing with open sights on my 45 Colt 1860 Henry. Ammo was Sellier & Bellot 250 gr LFN. It's ok ammo, and the cheapest factory stuff I can find so far on the Canadian frontier.

First few buffalo, I decided that anything inside the 2 inner circles was a kill. I guess that's a 4" target. Anything touching any of the little corner targets was a kill. Man they are tiny at 50 yds. 25 rounds and a few kills. Anything outside of my defined kill zone, I wounded the critter and it trampled me to death. Oh well, that's a good cowboy story on it's own. Not bad for blinding snow glare. No wind though for a change.

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2nd herd of buffalo, again 50 yds and anything in the middle or outer diamonds was meat on the table. Again, some major squinting going on, but i'm ok with the results. My family won't starve.

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Love that Henry rifle....

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[Cofisher]

Proud of ya boy!

[PT7]

Great and entertaining cowboy story. As usual, very good shooting although you said the "wounded critter trampled you to death." So if you were trampled, who is that in the picture holding the Henry?!?

And glad to hear that Maria was blowing elsewhere during your shooting time. But you still shoot spot on either way, RR, with or without Maria howling all around you. Good job once again.

Take care.
PT7

[RanchRoper]

It's rare to have a no wind day here. Good to get out to the range, and winter might be taking it's leave of us for awhile this week. Time to get horseback and go see if the grizzlies are up yet...

[North Country Gal]

Time and time, again, you manage to shoot great targets under some very demanding conditions. Love it.

Send some of that spring weather, our way. Got down below zero, last night and we've had as much snow so far in April as we had in all of February. Spring? What spring?

[RanchRoper]

Will do NCG. Thanks to all of the folks for the kind words. Here's the lonely little 50 yd board today lost in all the whiteness....

[JEBar]

considering your handicap, nicely done .... having to compensate due to the lack of a cross wind shows you can overcome such adversity ..

[RanchRoper]

...aiming straight at the target? Who would have thought?

[BigAl52]

Darn I thought when you said you was going to the range you were gonna do some manure pile shootin.

[RanchRoper]

Darn I thought when you said you was going to the range you were gonna do some manure pile shootin.

At the pile or from the pile? What's your preference?