White Buffalo/Bison

MonikaC

Well-Known Member
At a bison ranch a few hours' drive from home. There was a road along the southern border of the ranch that I initially thought was a private ranch road, but after I turned around & looked again, I think it may be a public road. Nevertheless, it was not one I wanted to drive down in the RAV4, so I'll go back with the FJ sometime. To be more accurate, it wasn't a road I thought I could get back out of & onto the pavement with the RAV......

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AlanLichty

Moderator
Cool to see an exception like this specimen. I like the first shot where the light brings out the contrast to the rest of the herd a bit better.

Smart to know your vehicle's limits in advance of finding out the hard way. I have spent far too much time learning from the latter method 🙄
 

MonikaC

Well-Known Member
Cool to see an exception like this specimen. I like the first shot where the light brings out the contrast to the rest of the herd a bit better.

Smart to know your vehicle's limits in advance of finding out the hard way. I have spent far too much time learning from the latter method 🙄
I learned my vehicles' limits the hard way in my 20's...... Back then, I would give myself 3 tries to get in somewhere before giving up/giving my vehicle a break. I'm too old for that now!
 

MonikaC

Well-Known Member
Great find and like Alan, the first is the one I favor.
That one was taken right before the brown one challenged the white one & made the white one run off. I hoped I had captured the action, but missed it. Otherwise, they were all just eating.
 

AlanLichty

Moderator
I learned my vehicles' limits the hard way in my 20's...... Back then, I would give myself 3 tries to get in somewhere before giving up/giving my vehicle a break. I'm too old for that now!
It's remarkable how thoroughly we absorb the curriculum from the University of Hard Knocks 😎
 

JimFox

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Staff member
Awesome work Monika! I am almost 100% sure where this is and the road you are talking about, I will text you later to double check. If it's where I am thinking, I have shot there a few times by myself and with the grandkids as they had a blast seeing all of the bison too.

I really like #1 a lot, that white bison is awesome and very special.
 

MonikaC

Well-Known Member
Awesome work Monika! I am almost 100% sure where this is and the road you are talking about, I will text you later to double check. If it's where I am thinking, I have shot there a few times by myself and with the grandkids as they had a blast seeing all of the bison too.

I really like #1 a lot, that white bison is awesome and very special.
Outside of Hartsel
 

Debbie Stahre

Well-Known Member
Great find! I like #1 best. Do you know that to American Indians, a White Buffalo Calf is the most sacred living thing on earth?
 

ckcarr

Founding Member
That, is an awesome find!
Nice image!


Also makes me want to dig out some Ted Nugent records...
 

MonikaC

Well-Known Member
That, is an awesome find!
Nice image!


Also makes me want to dig out some Ted Nugent records...
Thanks, Craig.
Does Uncle Ted also make you want to shoot something.........? Have you ever seen his hunting show? I've only seen a few episodes long ago but it was pretty hilarious with his unabashed shilling for his sponsors & plenty of melodrama. Kinda interesting Nugent refers to the great white buffalo as a "he" when in the myths, it's a "she".
 

MonikaC

Well-Known Member
Great find! I like #1 best. Do you know that to American Indians, a White Buffalo Calf is the most sacred living thing on earth?
Thanks, Debbie. And, yes, I do. I sent some JPEGs to friends who sent them to their Lakota friends. Hopefully, this truly is a harbinger of the arrival of the times they believe the white buffalo represents. I'm certainly ready for it!
 

ckcarr

Founding Member
Thanks, Craig.
Does Uncle Ted also make you want to shoot something.........?
No, just makes me want to drink and play music loud...

Kinda interesting Nugent refers to the great white buffalo as a "he" when in the myths, it's a "she".
A friend told me once how you can tell the male from the female bison as it's often hard for the inexperienced to tell. But it's actually easy, you just go roll them over!
 

MonikaC

Well-Known Member
Great image, Monika. Do you get white meat out of a white bison?
It took me a while to remember this, but I used to have a patient who raised her own pigs for meat & she preferred the white ones as she said their meat was sweeter, so maybe it would be similar.
 
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