Buffalo

grumpygy

Something you may not know but at Camp Pendelton they roam free just like Yellowstone.

While I was there at least one person died from hitting one in a car.

One used my truck as a scratching post caved in the front fender.

Was almost stepped on twice. Once while trying to crawl up and embankment to get a close look. Once while in the field sleeping during an operation. Think we got more training sneaking away from them than we got the whole 2 week operation.

grumpygy

Getting ready for gun deer season opener here on wednesday. Went out to the farm today and to my surprise saw three buffalo bedded down in a hay field next to ours. Cars parked along the road side with people looking. Only place we can think they may have come from is Ted Nugents place down the road. I`m sure somwone will claim them.If not they won`t make it through deer season.

grumpygy

An Indian walks into a cafe with a shotgun in one hand , pulling a
male buffalo with the other. He says to the waiter, "Want coffee."
The waiter says, "Sure chief, coming right up." He gets the
Indian a tall mug of coffee. The Indian drinks the coffee down in one gulp, turns and blasts the buffalo with the shotgun, causing parts of the animal to splatter every where, then just walks out! .
The next morning the Indian returns. He has his shotgun in one
hand,pulling another male buffalo with the other. He walks up to the counter and says to the waiter, "Want coffee."
The waiter says, "Whoa, Tonto! We're still cleaning up your mess
from yesterday. What was all that about, anyway?"
(hang on, this is really good......)

The Indian smiles and proudly says, "Training for upper
management position in United States Government:
Come in, drink coffee, shoot the bull, leave mess for others to
clean up, disappear for rest of day."

hillbille

never did see one while I was there grumpy, but I was only stationed there for a few months. did see a crapload of turantulas.....[xx(]

oldrider

The folks who want us to call antelope "pronghorns" want us to call buffalo "bison."

Colonel Plink

As a kid, I used to work a herd of about 75 out here in Colorado. They are certainly not beasts you want to turn your back on.quote:Originally posted by oldrider
The folks who want us to call antelope "pronghorns" want us to call buffalo "bison."


I know, right?

Just like those guys who want us to call a "clip" a "magazine"

sheesh

cce1302

I can't figure out how they make wings out of 'em, but I'm sure glad they do.

allen griggs

My girlfriend and I went from Georgia up to Prince Edward Island, Canada. This island is in fact a Province, the smallest of them all, only about 120 miles across.

It is in the Atlantic off the coast of Nova Scotia.

While we were cruising around up there in our rental car, we were astonished to look out into a field, and see a herd of buffalo!
There were about 2 dozen buffalo in a 20 acre pasture. They had a barn, a caretaker was there feeding them hay.

We got to talking to this guy, I said to him "What the hell are y'all doing with buffalo out here in the Atlantic Ocean? They are not native to this area."

He told us that the Canadian government had brought this herd over from Saskatchewan. In case some epidemic ever hit the mainland herd, this little herd would be safe from the disease, and would be on stand-by to repopulate the buffalo of North America.

He Dog

The are pronghorns and bison. Pronghorns are certainly not antelope, they are in their own family, and the genus Antelocarpa translates as goat antelope, so if ya want to call them antelope, call them goat antelope.

And bison, not at all closely related to buffalo, which they resemble not at all. Most closely related to a European animal known there as, wait for it, bison.