.223 for buffalo

"This was a one shot kill on a 2100 pound bull buffalo using a DPMS LoPro Classic in .223. Shot by Jesse Seelhoff and pictured by Jim Rifenbark. Shot placement is critical, excellent accuracy by DPMS. Thank you guys for making this day exciting!

Jim Rifenbark & Jesse Seelhoff"


Buffalo are notoriously dumb animals that are more target practice than game. It doesn't say where they hit it, but getting close and putting a 223 in their brain seems reasonable to me...
 
jw62 summed it up pretty well, I think. Me, I sorta doubt it was a one- or two-hundred yard shot from a field-expedient position...
 
Sorry to hijack, but I thought this picture was hilarious:

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On a fenced in canned hunt on a game ranch a 223 or any center fire caliber will kill a Buffalo but it would not be my choice.

Funny picture by the way !!!
 
Buffalo have very poor eyesight and anything with in 40yds they will see movement, anything beyond that and it is very slim chance they will see you if you sneak up on them. Only an idiot would shoot a wild buffalo with a 223.

On the shot placement and shooting them in the head, imagine how many 1500lb cows are/were killed everyday by a 22 at the slaughter house.
 
In all fainess to the human gene pool,The best way to take on a bison with a .223 is get up really close,10 yards would be great.Put a generous amount of superglue on your boot soles .This is the equivalent of driving a lance in the ground and tying your ankle to it.

Then ,take your shot.
 
Buffalo are notoriously dumb animals that are more target practice than game.
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While this is true of the southern canned variety: the wild buffalo of the north are not so slow as they aren't fenced & fed. If I ever get lucky enough to draw an Alaska Buffalo tag I darn sure will not be taking a .223.
 
^^^ I second that. When I lived in SE Utah, we had one of only a couple existing Free-roaming Buffalo herds left in the continental US--Henry Mountain Range, and drawing a tag on one was a once-in-a-lifetime draw, whether you filled it or not. I think the fill ratio to draw was about 15%. I've seen 'em a few times, never got very close. They were very elusive, smart, and it amazed me how fast a couple hundred of these massive things could disappear when they wanted to. No, a .223 on these beasts wouldn't even come close, and they are very much "game" not to be underestimated.
 
Just myself I would not use a .223 on a wild buffalo. Or a 22mag on a bear. It can be done, and has but there are way to many better calibers for that.
 
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