BUFFALO / BISON HUNTS
BUFFALO / BISON HUNTS
Free ranging wild buffalo are one of North America’s most unique and impressive trophies. One of the few places you can hunt wild, free-ranging buffalo is in Alberta. Most of these buffalo live within the unfenced boundaries of Wood Buffalo National Park, right beside WMU 534 and 540 where Lightning D Outfitters operate and may be hunted. Lightning D Outfitters offers one of the very few opportunities to hunt these magnificent animals in a truly fair chase situation.
Hunting buffalo (bison) is truly a unique and exciting hunt, and one you will remember for a lifetime!
Buffalo / Bison
The Experience
Lyles says hunting bison isn’t about the harvest, it’s about the experience and because the animals are not what we perceive them to be, a typical hunt is 10 days in the wilderness. “It’s no easy job,” he began when asked about a typical buffalo hunt. “Sometimes you can get really lucky. But they’re not big, dumb, lumbering animals and you’re not sitting on the side of hill like in the movies waiting for a herd to run by. “They live in very remote wooded areas and it’s very demanding. Some of these animals can weigh up to 3,300 pounds and once we had to pull a bull out seven
miles. It can be extremely difficult but those are the kinds of hunts that create memories you talk to your grandchildren about.”
Buffalo (bison) can reach 3300 pounds and there are some truly heavy horned trophies. The meat is as good as any you have ever eaten with absolutely no wild taste and is low if fat and high in protien.
Buffalo (bison) utilize small meadows, bogs, marsh edges, and timber in their range which they share with moose, caribou and wolves. The wet conditions in the forests and bogs make most of their range inaccessible except during the winter months on frozen ground. Contrary to the popular perception of a bison hunt, this may be one of the toughest hunting experiences on the continent! This region is best travelled in winter when the creeks and muskegs are frozen.
The Hunt
We have a comfortable wood stove heated cabin close to the planned hunting area. Camp is accessed by snowmobile.
We take a maximum of 4 hunters at a time for a 10 day hunt.
We have two 10 Day hunts avaliable. Our season starts at the end of February and ends in the first part of March. Days are longer and the weather warmer during this period. Temperatures can range from 30 below 0 to the 40's. Call for specific dates.
Price:
- $7,500 (USD) for a 10 Day Hunt.
- Does not include snowmobile rental.
- 50% down at the time of booking, balance due 30 day before hunt.
Prior to all hunts Lyle scouts the hunting are via aircraft to get the clents in the right area!!!
Lightning D Outfitters - 2009