Cathunt MT got it. Its a rare light colored water buffalo. Its an Asiatic water buffalo, as opposed to non-Asiatic, I guess, I don't know. Anyway its a water buffalo. I shot it on friday and I went to Cabelas on saturday. The full body mount cape buffalo at Cabelas had a smaller body than this water buffalo. The cape buffalo horns were bigger, but this has big horns for a water buffalo. I still have to score it, but I looked in TGR's 25 year record book and based on the short length alone, it would be #2 for 25 years. It still remains to figure out the score though.
Its like every 12-13 years that somebody gets one this big, sort of.
Got any meat cut requests?
We can try lots of recipes with its meat. No brand, they charge people, so they stay away from them. One guy told me how his small truck was turned over by one with him in it. Another guy told me one took 4 shots from a 375 before going down. As I mentioned, a previous hunter where I hunted had been trampled by one that got up after going down. He had several broken bones. I showed a 30-40 year ranch hand where I hunted my bullet. He liked the 338 250 grain better than the 50 caliber pistol bullet. He held the 338 up and said, if you shoot it in the neck or behind the ear with this, it might go down. It did, on the second shot that way.
Here we are gutting it.
After chaining its hind legs to the tractor, it was lifted some. We slit it and started cutting the guts away. We cut all the way through the sternum. After the guts started to hang out, we put a lasso on them. The ranch owner, there on the 6 wheeler, then pulled the guts out with the other end of the lasso tied onto the 6 wheeler, while the tractor held onto the animal.
The second try, the guts pulled out. Then the guide there, drove the tractor over to an 18 ft flatbed trailer and we had it loaded to take to the meat processor in town. Not a bad way to do it, eh?
2 shots to the 2 ft diameter neck with the 250 grain 338 nosler partition and it dropped. 2 more shots with the S&W 50 caliber pistol and elk load as we walked up to it, just to make sure we didn't get trampled.
It went well, considering the guy before me got trampled.