Know Your Bison

[Subdeacon Joe]

[Trailrider #896]

And they are great eating, too! 

[DeaconKC]

Okay, which one gets better lift on selfie pic morons?

[Dapper Dave]

Do not pet the fluffy cows...

[Rye Miles #13621]

Then there’s this….

 

https://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/bison-vs-buffalo.htm

[Doc Shapiro]

His name is Bob.

[J-BAR #18287]

As a USDA/FSIS veterinarian, I have some experience with slaughtering bison for human consumption.

 

Most of them do not like confinement.  Getting one from a trailer or truck into a corral with narrow lanes leading to the stunning box was sometimes impossible due to the bison's preference to not move.  Which resulted in the butcher shooting the animal between its eyes while still in the trailer/truck.  Tricky, but doable with patience.

 

That shaggy coat becomes a source of contamination during skinning.  Any hair shed onto the carcass must be removed by knife trimming;  blasting hair off with a water spray won't remove bacteria sticking to the meat.  Most butchers save very special words for skinning a bison.

[Subdeacon Joe]

55 minutes ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

Then there’s this….

 

https://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/bison-vs-buffalo.htm

 

From the article:

 

"That couldn't be further from the truth. In Yellowstone National Park, bison tend to injure more visitors than any other animal. "

 

What other animals do the bison injure?

[Rye Miles #13621]

4 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

From the article:

 

"That couldn't be further from the truth. In Yellowstone National Park, bison tend to injure more visitors than any other animal. "

 

What other animals do the bison injure?

Funny 😄 

[J-BAR #18287]

Buffalo, Missouri is about 43 miles north of Springfield.  The high school mascot is the bison.  Come cheer for the Buffalo bisons!

 

😂

[Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103]

Kudos to Rye for that article ... if for no other reason than I had instant visuals on what looks like a waterboo, what looks like Mbogo, and what looks like Big Shaggy!

The three mental silhouettes are quite different!

(I've known all three to share a profound lack of tolerance to Homo Stupidicus!)

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

1 hour ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

From the article:

 

"That couldn't be further from the truth. In Yellowstone National Park, bison tend to injure more visitors than any other animal. "

 

What other animals do the bison injure?

Impossible!  They're tame, you know....or so I heard from idiots for all over the world the summer I worked at Yellowstone.  Heard the same thing about bears and moose, etc.

[Doc Shapiro]

3 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

Impossible!  They're tame, you know....or so I heard from idiots for all over the world the summer I worked at Yellowstone.  Heard the same thing about bears and moose, etc.

But, but, Moose are the gangsters of the forest!

[watab kid]

interesting i learn more here by accident than design , so we have bison .....need to correct what i told my kids in early life i guess 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Bison Bill, Bison City, NY, ...and others... just don't ring like "buffalo" does.

[Sedalia Dave]

[Trailrider #896]

So. anybody out there shoot a bison rifle? Still, if'n you are goin' huntin' in Africa, better take somethi' heavy. Cape Buffalo can take a lot of punishment and still stomp ya.  Friend of mine who used to guide, usually packed a .500 Nitro Express double rifle, and occasionally something bigger. For shaggies in North America a .45-70 or .50-90 will do, if you place the bullet properly.

[Pat Riot]

I prefer wood smoked over plain bison. 

 

Apparently in this poll the wood bison is over the plain bison. 

 

[Rye Miles #13621]

So was there buffalo or bison in upper state New York? You know, Buffalo, NY ?

[Pat Riot]

12 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

So was there buffalo or bison in upper state New York? You know, Buffalo, NY ?

They were buffalo chickens. Where do you think they got Buffalo Wings? 

[DeaconKC]

[Cypress Sun]

Myasishchev M-4

 

 

Also known as the Bison

[Dapper Dave]

On 6/28/2025 at 10:24 AM, Sedalia Dave said:

Raul Julia's last role, great actor, great loss. 

[Buckshot Bear]

Sandy Valley Bison

https://sandyvalleybison.com.au/

 

 

[Sedalia Dave]

6 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said:

Sandy Valley Bison

https://sandyvalleybison.com.au/

 

 

 

I wonder how anyone kept the first bison shipped to OZ from destroying the ship.

[Sedalia Dave]

Not a Bison

 

 

Not a Buffalo

Edited June 30 by Sedalia Dave

[Buckshot Bear]

11 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:

 

I wonder how anyone kept the first bison shipped to OZ from destroying the ship.

 

It would have been a feat, I wonder if they were calves?

[Black Angus McPherson]

We had 3 bison get loose out around here yesterday.  "One of the owners" got herself gored trying to herd them back to where they belonged.  The police shot them, on the owner's instruction, because they couldn't get them wrangled and were in a populated area.  I got a kick out of it when the news folk said the locals started "harvesting" the bison almost immediately.  The owners were ok with it because they didn't want to see all that meat go to waste.   mmmmm, bison burger sounds pretty good right about now.  Newsman on the scene said he heard 8 to 10 shots.  I wonder what caliber rifle they were using.  I'd have thought a .223 would take more than that to put down 3 bison.  I say rifle because it didn't look like a shotgun the PD was carrying on the news feed.

 

Angus

[Sedalia Dave]

On 7/1/2025 at 6:55 PM, Black Angus McPherson said:

We had 3 bison get loose out around here yesterday.  "One of the owners" got herself gored trying to herd them back to where they belonged.  The police shot them, on the owner's instruction, because they couldn't get them wrangled and were in a populated area.  I got a kick out of it when the news folk said the locals started "harvesting" the bison almost immediately.  The owners were ok with it because they didn't want to see all that meat go to waste.   mmmmm, bison burger sounds pretty good right about now.  Newsman on the scene said he heard 8 to 10 shots.  I wonder what caliber rifle they were using.  I'd have thought a .223 would take more than that to put down 3 bison.  I say rifle because it didn't look like a shotgun the PD was carrying on the news feed.

 

Angus

 

You would have thought the owner would have known that bison CAN NOT be driven anywhere they don't want to go.

 

You have to coax them into it.

[Gateway Kid SASS# 70038 Life]

22 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:

 

You would have thought the owner would have known that bison CAN NOT be driven anywhere they don't want to go.

 

You have to coax them into it.

Yep our friends ran bison for years. Always used to say “you can lead a bison anywhere it wants to go!” They kept some beat up farm trucks around and using the cheapest horse cubes they could find in a white bucket would bait them into moving from one pasture to another. Secret was to introduce the babies to the bucket early. Asked why he didn’t fix the body damage he said it didn’t matter cuz when a big adult wanted to be first in line anything in the way was bound to be tore up! As far as the whole “bison vs buffalo” thing he figured it didn’t matter cuz people call things wrong all the time, couldn’t correct everybody. 
Regards

    

Gateway Kid

[Cypress Sun]

Last time I saw a Bison, I attacked it with my bare hands. Had a knife ready, didn't need it.

 

[Calico Jack]

2 hours ago, Cypress Sun said:

Last time I saw a Bison, I attacked it with my bare hands. Had a knife ready, didn't need it.

 

I wish I had never seen this photo. I’m so hungry now 😂

[John Kloehr]

Some local farm raises Bison. Available in a few shops in the area. Have added it to chilis, it works well.

[Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L]