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DanaM:
I wasn't going to say anything but can't hold my peace. What you plan on doing bears no relationship to hunting.
I think you should rethink this and just pay a butcher to take care of it. You still get the meat, hide, bones what have you.
Might as well shoot a cow in the barn.

Just my opinion.

stiknstring:
I won't comment other than to say that is NOT really hunting . I would not even consider a canned hunt of any sort myself. There is no sport in killing a caged animal.

sailordad:
I have to agree with Dana ,ifn its in a pen,weather its 20 foot pen or a 2 mile pen,it is still a pen.Therfore its not really hunting imho.
Not that I would turn down the meat(bison is sooooo much better than that greasy a-- beef).  so i guess to each his own,good luck and watch out for the angry cow.

billy:
Ok ya'll, I read some of these posts and now I'VE gotta put my 2 cents in.  Here goes.....

I know everyone says "if it's in a pen, it's not hunting."  Well...have any of ya'll ever tried it??

Early this past fall, a lady asked me and my friend to try and shoot a deer that was in her 8-acre fence.  The deer had been eating her flowers and she wanted the deer out of her property, whether it was dead or alive.  She was trying to fence the deer out, but somehow this little yearling had gotten in.  Now, only about 3 acres were wooded, the rest was pasture.  I was armed with my primitive bow, my buddy had his Mathews compound.  We chased that damn deer for over an hour.  It ran circles around us and finally found a way outta the fence.  Neither of us ever got a shot opportunity. 

Here's my take:  If it were me, and the buffalo is gonna end up dead anyway, I would probably try and shoot it with my primitive bow, just to see what it could do.  Hell, he's using a PRIMITIVE BOW for christ's sake. Of course I wouldn't be reckless and take questionable shots, but when would any of us ever have the opportunity to take a buffalo? 

Wild animals still have wild instincts and can run away, and as long as it's over 25 yards away it may as well be 25 miles away.  If a patch of woods is surrounded by suburbia and you hunt deer in that patch of woods, then suburbia acts as a fence.  If you hunt in a funnel where deer movement is concentrated, then the landscape can act as a fence.  If you sit in a blind on a deer trail and pile up brush to force deer near your blind, then you are, in essence, building a fence to make the shot easier. 

If you were to hunt in a 2 square mile fenced-in ranch, and you spook a deer, is it gonna run 2 miles, get cornered in the fence and wait for you to shoot it?  HELL NO.  It's gonna run in circles, circle back, cross its own trail, and confound you to the point that you're gonna look like a bumbling idiot.  I don't care what anyone says, just because it's in a fenced in area, it is in no way like shooting fish in a barrel.  Try it, then I'd like to hear you say "oh man...that was too easy."  I'll bet you won't. 

wvfknapper:
I agree with Billy,  in that it's still an animal , it's not tied up...I think it would also be interesting to see how well primitive equipment did on a Buffalo..........I figure a lot of people on here have hunted hogs and exotic animals on those game farms, no different,, a lot of people use feeders and food plots, those are about the same..............Plus the main thing is, all Danny asked was if anyone would trade him some arrows for a nice Osage stave and if anyone thought his equipment was sufficient to do the job, He didn't ask to be judged about his desire to achieve something he felt would be interesting to him , or if it was ethical.


wvflintknapper

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