Killed with an arrow?

[Shedrock]

I was hiking up a deep wash today and saw some bone sticking out. I knew right away what it was.

The wash is about 9 feet deep, and this was about 3 feet down from the top. Erosion over the years started to show this beast's head. Part of one horn, and a bit of the skull was showing.

I hiked back to the truck and got my shovel. Too bad the other horn just crumpled to pieces on me. I couldn't save it.

It just makes me wonder if a Native American took this beast down with an arrow. This thing has to be at least a couple hundred years old, don't you think?

It was a big bull. The width of the skull is a full one inch wider than the brute P&Y bull I killed a couple years back. Hope this is OK to post. Thanks for looking.

 
 

[Bud B.]

Nice find!

[2treks]

Very cool!

[Jack Denbow]

That is very cool Tracy.
Jack

[Mike Vines]

Awesome find

[centaur]

Great find!

[lpcjon2]

Thats pretty cool, Maybe if you donate it to a museum they can date it.

[turkey522]

Nice find.

[wooddamon1]

That's cool!

[Coonbait]

Very nice!! Makes you wonder?
Glenn

[Rob W.]

Nice find. I would love just to touch it.

[rushlush]

Very cool!

[FerretWYO]

One has to wonder?  Great find Tracy!  if bone could talk.

[Mike Yancey]

Thats nice Tracy, I saw a pic of one Mike Barrett found in the Teton's a few years ago.

[straitera]

Very cool old head. Thanks for photos.

[2treks]

It seems a well know member from tradgang told me about a buffalo skull he un-earthed while fishing in MT. Let it lay till he was done fishing and then forgot it.
I found a horn in MT that the rancher said was a buff horn, as his family had been running polled stock for a LONG time.
Cool Stuff to be found in the wilds,
CTT

[Longbowlogan]

Awesome find!

[cacciatore]

Very interesting find!

[Jack Shanks]

I hunted mule deer with Jeff Lander in Southeastern Alberta along the Red Deer River a few years back. Jeff showed me a spot on a bluff overlooking the river where Native Americans had camped and hunted buffalo. A dozen or so Tipi rings formed by the rocks used to hold the buffalo hides close to the ground are still there waiting for the hunters to return and use them again.

 Jeff told me there was a buffalo jumb overlooking another portion of the river that I never had the opportunity to see. Something I have always hoped to return and do.