The last Buffalo hunt ..... for a while!

Andrew left at about 4 am Wednesday morning to try and get his buffalo. For those of you who are wondering what the "big deal" about buffalo is: first of all, we love the meat, it tastes just like beef and has almost NO wild taste at all, next, you have to get drawn to get to hunt them. There are some guys up here who have put in for 30 years and have never gotten drawn. Then, there's the fact that this hunt is only 90 miles from here and is on the road system, so it's a fairly inexpensive hunt when you compare it to all the other hunting that goes on up here. Lastly, when you get drawn you have a 6 month time table to get your buffalo, 1st of October to the last of March. So Andrew was really down to the wire.

Anyhow, Andrew did get a buffalo at about 2 pm on Wednesday. He went hunting with his friend, Shawn. They both shot their buffalo at about the same time. For those of you who know and care, they were on the back side of Donnelly Dome.

The top picture is of Shawn and Shawn's friend, Mike, next to Shawn's buffalo. The picture above is of Shawn's friend, Mike. I guess Mike had made many trips with Shawn prior to this one, and when Shawn called him to say he'd gotten a buffalo, he took right off from Eielson AFB and drove an hour or more to come and help them get the buffalo skinned and cut up.

Andrew and Shawn and their buffalo

Andrew's buffalo is about 6 years old, so Andrew thinks Drew's is about 8 years old because the bases of the horns on Drew's were bigger than the one's on Andrew's.

We are so thankful to get to buy another freezer to "house" all this lovely buffalo meat. :) Congrats, Shawn. (I hope I'm spelling your name right!!)