My theory worked - the sooner we ate or gave away meat from the first buffalo hunt two years ago, the sooner we could go again. We wanted a meat bull this time - already have a head, so this one was to restock the freezer. It was on 4000 acres in the Nebraska sand hills and completely grass fed. The guide was adamant that I shoot it in the ear due to some dangerous situations he had been in recently with wounded buffalo. So I sighted the rifle one last time in the morning before we went out. My shot was near enough to the ear that he went straight down. I used a Shiloh Sharps 16# bull barrel 50-90 ordered to look exactly like a buffalo rifle from back in the day. It has a Distant Thunder Sharps Sporter tang sight that Jim made for me. I used a 600 grain flat nosed bullet over 98 grains of Swiss 1.5.