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[Mark R]

I am not convinced of that. If the hunts are so difficult that one need helicopters, you should not use an old, infirm hunter as the main character in the video. Once again, the buffalo hunts in Australia don't convince me.

Then you Sir have no idea, only speculation. Alex has given a very detailed account of what went down. This hunt wasn’t filmed by Big Country Safaris but undertaken by the hunter.
I have hunted Alex’s exclusive hunting areas where he conducts trophy bull hunts along with management bulls and cull hunts. This is conducted in vast wilderness country that is more remote than you will most likely see in Africa.

Cheers
Mark

 

[Mark R]

In my countries, game is primarily hunted using driven hunts. However, we do not glorify this type of hunting, but buffalo hunting in Australia is often compared with that in Africa, which it cannot be for many reasons. This is sometimes irritating, especially when you see outfitter's videos like these. But due to the increasing demand of buffalo hunts in Africa and accordingly the offer types that did not exist years ago, we will soon also reach a point in Africa where we are dealing more with feral cattle than with truly wild buffalo.

I have seen far too many irritating cape buffalo hunts on youtube that do nothing for the hunting indusdtry.

 

[Mark R]

A Water Buffalo Bullock or any Bovine actually be it Cape Buffalo - Bison or Farm breed Cattle that has had his testicles interfered with, either by remove or crimping (normally removal) these are called Steers in my country until a certain age (when full grown & Mature) then they become Bullocks, as in Bullock/Ox carts, rare in this day & age as most sold to the Meat Works as large Steers.

Very very rare to be naturally occurring (I shot one as a kid, that looked like a Dingo or two ripped them out) normally has had the hands of man on them & not free ranging !

There was one actually out at GanGan, Sarg. No idea how it appeared out there. Totally freerange out there as you know.

Cheers
Mark

 

[Sarg]

There was one actually out at GanGan, Sarg. No idea how it appeared out there. Totally freerange out there as you know.

Cheers
Mark

Yes bud I know, very frustrating as I went after him a couple of times, very first time I thought he was a extra huge Barren Cow, then highly suspected it a was a Natural Bullock as I had taken one decades before.
Only for it it be taken by a fill in Guide, very unsettling lol

 

[Mark R]

Yes bud I know, very frustrating as I went after him a couple of this, very first time I thought he was a extra huge Barren Cow, then highly suspected it a was a Natural Bullock as I had taken one decades before.
Only for it it be taken by a fill in Guide, very unsettling lol

I was there

 

[Sarg]

I was there

I bloody know that !

Tainted my whole season !!

 

[Sabre]

You are all spot on with your responses. These animals were castrated at a young age and live to nearly 30 years old. They are castrated and set free into a 100,000 acre free ranging area. They make up around 2 percent of the buffalo we hunt each year and are a specialty and extremely expensive hunt due to the size of them. We have never sold them or advertised them as anything there not. They are free ranging bullock/steer buffalo. The price for them for one thing is extremely different to our free ranging Arnhemland buffalo bull hunts

What makes their horns so much longer? Is it the act of castrating them or something else?

 

[BlueFlyer]

then highly suspected it a was a Natural Bullock as I had taken one decades before.

Now I am no expert but I have probably castrated roughly !0,000 bull calves in my life. I only use a scalpel so I am getting up close. I have never found a none female animal without gonads. Ocassionally they are not in the scrotumn as they have not decended, They can be up on the belly. If you do not remove the testicle from the belly then the calf will develop as a bull not as a steer as they still have testostrone. I have hands on experience of this.

bullock buffalo has boss measurements of 19 inches which is alot bigger then the average bull buffalo!

Corrrect I am only a novice, but from the limited knowledge I have the average 50" to 60" Bull Water Buffalo would usually have bosses with a girth of 21" to 23", so at 19" girth for 90" span the aspect ratio is more like a big cow horn. Agree the phenominal length is just due to their age.

I guess I will just jog on now. When I do get the chance I will not be using a 7mm magnum on buffalo and I will try not to gut shoot a stationary animal ( refer 4,52 of video).
Cheers

 

[Sarg]

Now I am no expert but I have probably castrated roughly !0,000 bull calves in my life. I only use a scalpel so I am getting up close. I have never found a none female animal without gonads. Ocassionally they are not in the scrotumn as they have not decended, They can be up on the belly. If you do not remove the testicle from the belly then the calf will develop as a bull not as a steer as they still have testostrone. I have hands on experience of this.

Corrrect I am only a novice, but from the limited knowledge I have the average 50" to 60" Bull Water Buffalo would usually have bosses with a girth of 21" to 23", so at 19" girth for 90" span the aspect ratio is more like a big cow horn. Agree the phenominal length is just due to their age.

I guess I will just jog on now. When I do get the chance I will not be using a 7mm magnum on buffalo and I will try not to gut shoot a stationary animal ( refer 4,52 of video).
Cheers

Well I think you maybe trying to be a Dick now & there is no reason for that sort of thing, my apologies if I’m mistaken on that ?

When I say Natural, I mean the course of the Castration which can occur at any stage of life/growth from Dingos - Crocodiles - Hyenas or Honybadgers.

If later in life the animal can display full Male/Bull figures, I believe @PaulT has also encountered a Buffalo with damaged Testes ?