Post by Ron Kulas on Feb 28, 2018 12:27:33 GMT -6
This destination bowhunt will take place in the hill country of Utopia Texas in Uvalde county and since the plan is to bring all the meat home, I will be making the 21 hour drive from my home in South East Wisconsin. I will meet up with other hunters in Dubuque Iowa on March 28. In all, there will be 6 of us in a few trucks pulling trailers loaded with coolers.
This particular ranch encompasses 20,000 acres (32 sq/miles) and is home to many native and East Asian and African species. The ranch has an excess water Buffalo population that needs to be culled. We will be targeting Water Buffalo cows and perhaps other species (playing it by ear at this point). The ranch owner offered us a very attractive deal to help him reduce his water buffalo numbers and I am itching to do further testing and evaluation of some archery gear I designed and spent a year and a half developing and and to set my broadhead sharpener with yet another brand of broadhead. and because I did not have any other traveling hunts in my Calendar at this time of the year, I jumped at the chance.
Here is the object of this bowhunting product testing adventure.
Fresh on the heels of my successful archery hunt for Vancouver bull and Polynesian pig in Hawaii, I'm gearing up for this hunt with some new (to me) broadheads. The heads I bought earlier for this hunt that I planed to use on water buffalo suddenly seemed inadequate for the task so I while sitting in a hotel room on the big island of Hawaii, I placed the order for some 250 grain Cutthroat broadheads. Reading and viewing the pictures about archery tackle for water buffalo scared me straight so once again I will be using a total arrow weight of 700 grains. Also, Im doing further product testing on a drop away arrow rest that I spent a great deal of time developing. In fact, I will be using the latest version of rest parts I made on my 3D printer. Im also evaluating 2 bow mounted camera mounts I've designed so this opportunity came at a perfect time since there is normally little opportunity to kill stuff with a bow in April.
adventurousbowhunter.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/from-the-field-water-buffalo-anatomy-shot-placement-part-1/?vm=r
I placed an order for 250 grain, single bevel, Cutthroat heads.
I'm currently making more arrows to replace the once that were damaged or left in the remains of the bull carcass up on mount Mauna Loa on the Big Island of Hawaii. Since we used the gutless method for that bull, I was unable to retrieve some of my arrows from that hunt. I plan to use the same dual walled aluminum arrows that will have a finished weight of 700 Grains. In addition, I plan to boost the draw weight of my Bowtech bow from its current setting of 64 Pounds.
I want to make it clear that this is a cull hunt. The ranch owner has an excess of Water Buffalo and he wants some removed. Normally his 3 day Water Buffalo Bull hunts (includes lodging and meals and use of the butcher shed and walk in cooler) costs $6000. Water Buffalo cow hunts with the same accommodations are $3000.
Because this ranch wants to reduce the population over the Easter weekend, we are specifically targeting cows and he has reduced the cost to $1650. That's not bad for some grass feed organic beef. It should also be noted that these are not tame or penned water buffalo. They are free roaming the 20,000 acres but this is indeed a fenced hunt (although I dont think Water buffalo require a high fence) meaning some folks will be opposed right off the bat. I look at it as a way to hopefully fill the freezer with beef, test a new broadhead, test a new prototype arrow rest, test a new bow mounted camera mount and get out with my bow in late march and get out of cold Wisconsin and head to the deep south for a few days.
This particular ranch encompasses 20,000 acres (32 sq/miles) and is home to many native and East Asian and African species. The ranch has an excess water Buffalo population that needs to be culled. We will be targeting Water Buffalo cows and perhaps other species (playing it by ear at this point). The ranch owner offered us a very attractive deal to help him reduce his water buffalo numbers and I am itching to do further testing and evaluation of some archery gear I designed and spent a year and a half developing and and to set my broadhead sharpener with yet another brand of broadhead. and because I did not have any other traveling hunts in my Calendar at this time of the year, I jumped at the chance.
Here is the object of this bowhunting product testing adventure.
Fresh on the heels of my successful archery hunt for Vancouver bull and Polynesian pig in Hawaii, I'm gearing up for this hunt with some new (to me) broadheads. The heads I bought earlier for this hunt that I planed to use on water buffalo suddenly seemed inadequate for the task so I while sitting in a hotel room on the big island of Hawaii, I placed the order for some 250 grain Cutthroat broadheads. Reading and viewing the pictures about archery tackle for water buffalo scared me straight so once again I will be using a total arrow weight of 700 grains. Also, Im doing further product testing on a drop away arrow rest that I spent a great deal of time developing. In fact, I will be using the latest version of rest parts I made on my 3D printer. Im also evaluating 2 bow mounted camera mounts I've designed so this opportunity came at a perfect time since there is normally little opportunity to kill stuff with a bow in April.
adventurousbowhunter.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/from-the-field-water-buffalo-anatomy-shot-placement-part-1/?vm=r
I placed an order for 250 grain, single bevel, Cutthroat heads.
I'm currently making more arrows to replace the once that were damaged or left in the remains of the bull carcass up on mount Mauna Loa on the Big Island of Hawaii. Since we used the gutless method for that bull, I was unable to retrieve some of my arrows from that hunt. I plan to use the same dual walled aluminum arrows that will have a finished weight of 700 Grains. In addition, I plan to boost the draw weight of my Bowtech bow from its current setting of 64 Pounds.
I want to make it clear that this is a cull hunt. The ranch owner has an excess of Water Buffalo and he wants some removed. Normally his 3 day Water Buffalo Bull hunts (includes lodging and meals and use of the butcher shed and walk in cooler) costs $6000. Water Buffalo cow hunts with the same accommodations are $3000.
Because this ranch wants to reduce the population over the Easter weekend, we are specifically targeting cows and he has reduced the cost to $1650. That's not bad for some grass feed organic beef. It should also be noted that these are not tame or penned water buffalo. They are free roaming the 20,000 acres but this is indeed a fenced hunt (although I dont think Water buffalo require a high fence) meaning some folks will be opposed right off the bat. I look at it as a way to hopefully fill the freezer with beef, test a new broadhead, test a new prototype arrow rest, test a new bow mounted camera mount and get out with my bow in late march and get out of cold Wisconsin and head to the deep south for a few days.