HUGE UTAH BISON WITH A BOW! (Once in a Lifetime Book cliff's Hunt)

[@SomeGuyFromOK]

The fact that he kept letting down to make sure he made a good shot is awesome!

[@BowDisciples]

Yessir! Legend

[@moneyandtimefreedom3352]

While the tool to get a buffalo have changed, I can only imagine that 300 years ago or 1,000 years ago after a Buffalo was killed that the family was just as excited as yours if not more. Seeing the hugs and hand shakes, pats on the back and a kiss and hug from your wife, excited for the chance to finally get one down. It was fascinating to see all those that helped and waited for the news to finally hear it was done and how excited the were. Then everyone working together to take the meat back to their camp/home. The scenario has been repeated millions of times over the millennia’s. What a cool hunt thanks for sharing.

[@BowDisciples]

Thanks so much!

[@ericratza5353]

Best show yet, James. The camera work and editing, is great.

[@BowDisciples]

Thank you!

[@jeffmckulsky7081]

Your best yet! His patients and not forcing the issue is a lesson for all congratulations to Taylor.

[@BowDisciples]

Thanks so much

[@jonathan_guerrero]

Um...... Patience

[@jimwithrow7643]

As soon as I saw him posing with that thing, I was wondering who was gonna strap the head/cape to their back and pack it out and my back started hurting 🤣 Phenomenal job all around!

[@BowDisciples]

Hahaha for real! Thanks

[@CodyKemby]

Let's GOOOO T-Man!! Stoked for you and so rad to be able to see how you work. Congrats buddy

[@BowDisciples]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@michaelbushey2787]

Been waiting for this video. You did say keep our eyes open for some good hunt videos. And one came sooner than i thought. Great camera work James. 👏

[@BowDisciples]

Thanks man!

[@briannacurley3247]

Best hunting video yet!! Amazing job everyone!

[@BowDisciples]

Thanks!

[@jayfromthe209]

that is a nice buffalo! love yall videos. every archery video or archery people i watch teaches me alot in a day!

[@BowDisciples]

Glad to hear it!

[@bojangles8045]

Congratulations fantastic video. Nice calm 2nd shot!! Well done

[@BowDisciples]

So cool seeing him double pumpy

[@houghtonic1975]

excellent hunting video. Great patience waiting for the right shot. Excellent follow-up shot.

[@BowDisciples]

Thank you+

[@Eric_Chesser]

Man those things are huge! Nice work 👊🏼

[@BowDisciples]

Thanks Eric! It was an awesome experience

[@TaylorHock-w2n]

Awesome video James!!

[@BowDisciples]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@BritRupe]

Way tooooooo GOOOO!!! Awesome job and beautiful! 🙌🙌

[@BowDisciples]

Thank you!

[@williamwalker2455]

Outstanding Hunter Etiquette & Team work! What an accomplishment. 🙌

[@BowDisciples]

Thanks so much!

[@JenéeFraine]

Congratulations, Taylor!!! Awesome!!

[@BowDisciples]

Thank you!

[@chasemorse3337]

Awesome video! Taylor is a cool dude!

[@BowDisciples]

No doubt!

[@josiahlarsen9336]

nice work fellas. great shot.

[@BowDisciples]

🙏🙏

[@elkhtr8472]

Hell of a bull !! Great video James

[@BowDisciples]

Thanks 👍

[@erxkeel]

Once in a generation. I'll never get to draw on such a beautiful animal. Very envious.

[@BowDisciples]

So epic

[@SomeGuyFromOK]

Awesome man, happy for you! This is one of the coolest channels out here and you deserve more followers than what you’ve currently got, I think this video might send you over that edge now. Remember us when you make it to the bigs!

[@BowDisciples]

I appreciate that!

[@pangangaso_outdoors]

Beautiful bull! Brings back memories from my bison hunt in 2021

[@BowDisciples]

Thank you!

[@davidschneider3978]

Congratulations sir! Great animal and great shots!

[@BowDisciples]

Thank you very much!

[@marktaylor8989]

There are 2 spots that I know for bison in Utah, the henrys or antelope island where was it shot??

[@BowDisciples]

Book cliffs

[@marktaylor8989]

That's awesome, I'm hoping I get a bison tag one day! His patience really showed and was very impressive. Job well done for your channel and for him!

[@drewolm]

Damn! What an experience! Awesome. Good shooting.

[@BowDisciples]

🙏🙏

[@kennethbeard881]

Thats some expensive glass at the beginning. I've been looking forward to this video since I saw the short!

[@BowDisciples]

Hope you liked it!

[@jonathanbennison9220]

10:08 What is that treatment on the soles of your boots?

[@BowDisciples]

Not sure

[@jeremyhurtubise6551]

Congratulations beautiful bull what a awesome hunt.

[@BowDisciples]

Thank you, it was great

[@50magz]

Whats a hunt like that cost tex? I know just getting a mount done cost atleast 2500 if not more

[@BowDisciples]

The hardest part is drawing the tag

[@rfcorreiaiv]

congrats, great video

[@BowDisciples]

Thank you!

[@mine8009]

Out of curiosity, what was your arrow set up?

[@BowDisciples]

420 gr grim reeper broadhead

[@cgb845]

What was on the bottom of his shoes? Did he buy those or make them?

[@BowDisciples]

He made them I believe 👍

[@anthonykeller9196]

great work I was down there on my LE deer tag filled it opening morning 35yrds

[@BowDisciples]

Congratulations 🎊

[@tristenfurgeson9893]

I drew my bison tag this year! Any tips you can throw at me?

[@BowDisciples]

Congrats! Glass a lot and have good wind

[@tristenfurgeson9893]

​@BowDisciples I just came off the mountain and saw 1 cow. Where did spot them?

[@johnnewcomb5162]

Congrats , nice job.

[@BowDisciples]

Thanks John

[@rubenvasquez021]

Dayummmm boyyyyy good shooting 👌🏽👌🏽🤙🏽

[@BowDisciples]

Pumpys only

[@davidrose415]

Man bison are HARD. I had a ranch in Limestone county personville area. The neighbor had bison that kept jumping the fence when our hefers were in heat. he got tired of coming to get his bulls. He told me to just kill them cause they are small bulls and he didn't want them anyway. I did it with a bow. There were five bulls, I got three before they knew what was going on. I hit perfect center of the heart with a 1.5" schwacker fixed blade 125gr on a 650gr 60%FOC arrow. got a complete pass through on all three bulls and they still rand 70 yards before they plowed the dirt. The other two got back through the fence before I could get them. He still had me come get those two also. I had so much meat I filled seven 14cuft freezers, and still had to give away over 3000 pounds of ground meat. We gave it to people who were going to the local mission for food. I also was going to the homeless shelter feeding bison burgers to the people at the shelter. we ate only bison for almost two years and having cook outs almost every night. I shot farm raised bison and it took all day to track and shoot them. I can only imagine the difficulty of this hunt.

[@BowDisciples]

It was awesome for sure

[@davidrose415]

@BowDisciples it made me very happy to see you guys so happy the whole time. I want to go on a bison hunt in Wyoming. Preferably in foothills or mountains. I want the terrain challenge to go with the difficulties of the animals. I want to get inside 30 on a trophy old bull. I'm talking a bull so old he isn't going to survive the coming winter. I've taken five young bulls, and that was difficult even though they were farm raised. I want to face a crafty old bull. I want to get close enough he has as much of a chance at me as I have at him. It has to be the same rush as 20 yards on hogs on the ground. It has to be that rush that gives you tunnel vision or white sight (when everything goes white as you release the arrow. Your heart beating over 200bpm, your breathing on the edge of hyperventilating, your skin goes ice cold from so much adrenaline to get that close to a truly wild crafty old bull that you know is going to try to take you if you don't get control of your faculties and take that shot. I've been there with a black bear and a cougar. Took both with a bow at 28 yards. The cougar almost got me after I put a broadhead through her heart with a war bow. She fell 10 feet from me and still wanted to fight as she was taking her last. The bear, I don't know how I did it, but I dropped him where he stood with a diamond infinite edge pro using a 550gr 75%FOC arrow tipped with the same schwacker I took the bison with. I mean the exact broadhead I had used two months earlier on a bison. Yeah, I hit him center of the heart and both lungs with just the nock and broadhead sticking out, did not get a complete pass through cause the arrow was too slow out of that diamond. However, I have seen Black Bear run 100 yards after the same shot, but mine dropped right there. A 500-pound boar. He was going to fight though, not run. I came up out of the brush to draw and he went into a threat display. I had the experience I described before of tunnel vision, came to full draw and everything went black and white, I took a deep breath and held it (like I was trained to do in sniper school as a civilian contractor) started to control my heart rate, then slowly letting my breath out as I drew through, the release broke (fired) and everything went white, the arrow struck and the world started to turn again. That rush is a high you can't get from anything else when you face an animal, and it truly is them or you. You are so close that you can't even consider running, and the animal desides they aren't running either. Then the animal goes down and holy crap the flow of emotion from all the natural chemicals hitting your brain. I wasn't crying but my face was soaked in tears, I was laughing uncontrollably from the release of endorphins to control the adrenaline, my nose was running, my hands shaking. I've been in combat and the reaction was nothing like facing a wild animal much more powerful than me. I lost my mind a little that day, and have been chasing it ever since. I have hunted wild boar with just a huge bowie knife (no dogs, no back up, no pistol just me by myself and a big knife) and it was nothing like the bear or cougar experience. The farm bison were close, but not the same. I have no idea how to explain it for a person who hasn't been there to fully understand. For me, there is not fear (I am completely not afraid). It is a rush, like act now or something bad is going to happen kind of feeling. When that feeling starts time stops. Even though the whole thing is less than a second from the time I stand up to the time I release the arrow it feels like hours. Then the flight of the arrow is in slow motion I can see every detail of its flight to the target, every wobble is so so clear. I can hear the broadhead cut (I'm sure that is all in my head). My every sense is hightened to the max. I can almost feel the blood from the animal. It is not just taking the animal, it feels like I'm one being with the animal. Maybe it is my religion (don't worry I'm not going to go into that), maybe it is I actually gain extra senses in that split second from all the hormones in my brain, I don't know. I know I'm not me if I am not using a bow either to practice or hunt every single day. I am an archer through and through. It is who I am not what I am. It sounds crazy to say this, but my passion for Archery is such that I feel I am the embodiment of the Norse god Ullr (god of Archery and hunting). The crapiest bow the planet makes me happy. Yeah I'm talking old rotten stick off the ground, feed sack twine twisted into a bow string tied on it, you know if you actually draw it something is going to break, curled twisted sticks sharpened with a pencil sharpener for arrows you know you aren't gonna hit anything with them, and I will shoot it and be perfectly content. Yeah there is something messed up inside me, but it in a good way. I know what my passion is, and it simple to satisfy that passion. If I don't satisfy that passion I go into a manic episode where I am completely driven to fling arrows by what ever means necessary. Doesn't have to be at an animal. I'm not driven to take life. I am completely satisfied with just flinging field points at a bag target, but the true rush only comes from the hunt and super close spot and stalk hunt at that. I can get that full adrenaline rush just from getting close enough to take the animal, I don't even have to draw to get the rush. However, the white vision will only happen when I am in true danger from a truly wild potential death. No I don't really seek that danger, but when it happens it is most welcome. I do truly want to experience it with a true warrior of a bison, well honestly with quite a number of animals (a bull moose, an Alaskan brown bear preferably a Kodiak grizzly, a Russian boar in Siberia, a Russian giant brown bear, to name a few), truly dangerous animals. Are we really hunters if we don't want to face the danger and experience true adventure doing it? I mean I have experienced things most people wouldn't survive, and walked away a true warrior. So is it really wrong that I would want to experience that again with other true warriors? Yeah I'm a little crazy, I mean I'm Irish are we supposed to be any other way? I'm also norse, a warrior religion, battling people for sport is kind of frowned on now a days. So where else where else can a norse archer do what we are supposed to do other than bow hunting? Yeah I know this comment got a bit out of hand, but how else is there for me to express my love for this sport than to describe it, and why I love it so much? I watch your channel cause I can see that same love (not crazy like me, and that is good cause if you were your videos would get deleted) in every single video. James and his wife both inspire me. Inspire me to bottle up my crazy so it doesn't scare people and go share this sport with others. All of you inspire me to try to ignite that spark in others. I buy bows at pawn shops, repair them, then give them to kids who show the smallest interest. I tune them to the kids needs, then teach the kids what I can. Some of them I take them and a parent hunting, then bam a new archer is born. That brings me pleasure beyond words to ignite that passion in someone else. Maybe one day I can finally afford cameras and such to be able to reach even more people, but till then I can keep doing what I do and watching yall.

[@BowDisciples]

🏹🏹

[@fromthepacific]

Lookin good, Toot!

[@BowDisciples]

🤣🤣

[@royhoglund1322]

Impressive animal and hunt! Congrats guys!

[@BowDisciples]

Thanks Roy

[@eeadventures123]

Awesome hunt! Did he make 100” cow mark?

[@BowDisciples]

For sure 😂

[@kevinhudson9030]

Well done!

[@BowDisciples]

Thank you

[@HuntinHorns]

hell yes what an amazin animal congrats awesome video too

[@BowDisciples]

Thanks!

[@rickjames2618]

Congratulations!!!

[@BowDisciples]

Thank you so much 😀

[@TakalBrothers]

incredible!

[@BowDisciples]

Thank you

[@supercub66]

Egyszer majd rájösz, hogy nem az ölés pillanata, hanem az oda vezető út volt a lényegesebb!

[@D.J.L502]

As a first nations person the bison gave us everything food shelter tools when we dropped one we used to smudge the animal and give thanx for the hunt and grandfather nimoostoos the buffalo for his sacrifice

[@BowDisciples]

🙏

[@justinrodabaugh3746]

Wait a minute…. He was able to make a clean ethical kill will a sub 600 grain arrow and a mechanical on an animal that size… my mind is blown(sarcasm). In all seriousness, not only did he get to take the a once in a lifetime animal but also gets to enjoy it with his closest friends, can’t beat that. Having all the extra hands to help quarter and pack that thing out is never a bad thing either. Great shots, great camera work. Keep up the good work!

[@BowDisciples]

Thanks Justin!

[@Tj-pk1qk]

Did that girl at 2:48 just say mid 70s is pretty cold wow I’d hate to see her on the East Coast when it gets down to 16°

[@BowDisciples]

For sure

[@andydemeo2437]

Man, that was awesome. A 60 yd shot with the bow. Congrats. It is an amazing animal.super cool video and I’m glad I could experience it with you all. I would love one day to be able to do a hunt like that. Keep the videos coming.

[@BowDisciples]

Will do, thank you

[@FishinOnaMission]

" the biggest ever, no ones ever seen a group like this." :)

[@BowDisciples]

🤣🤣🤣

[@_Kane541outdoors]

Damn good kill!!!!!!!! Congratulations!!!!!!!💪🏾💯

[@BowDisciples]

Thanks!

[@mayhem035]

Great team effort! 🎯🤙🤘🦬👍👊

[@BowDisciples]

Thanks brotha

[@garymiller4715]

Hell yeah!

[@BowDisciples]

Yewww

[@Milkywayboy]

It’s nice to see a comment section that is reasonable! Not full of idiots that complain about hunting, then go home and eat a cheeseburger! Conservation is a wonderful thing

[@BowDisciples]

Thank you

[@mikeschieuer9754]

That is so bad ass

[@BowDisciples]

Thanks Mike

[@boygirlandadad5814]

Kids and tourists walk right up to those things😂

[@BowDisciples]

Wild

[@KurtL1776]

In Yellowstone NP or Antelope Island, not the wild herds in Eastern Utah or Colorado, that I have ever heard of. I still haven't decided whether it is stupidity or just ignorance that makes people do that.

[@boygirlandadad5814]

@@KurtL1776 well, they still don't seem very wary even if they are "wild".

[@Milkywayboy]

@@boygirlandadad5814it’s an animal! They are dumb That’s why they almost went extinct! And thanks to hunters and conservation, these animals are back

[@christopheracosta9823]

Hell Fuckin Yeah, 2 Money Shots in the PUMP STATION 😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️ Congrats 🍻

[@BowDisciples]

Double pumpy baby

[@CanyonWinward]

My uncle just drew this exact tag

[@BowDisciples]

Awesome!

[@tristenfurgeson9893]

Hey so did i!!!

[@BowDisciples]

Congrats

[@BenryI]

U better have put all of it to good use

[@BowDisciples]

Obviously

[@javadmoghtader]

از طبیعت یه حیوون کم کردین و یخورده زباله به طبیعت اضافه کردین😂❤

[@BowDisciples]

Ok

[@True_flight777]

🦬🤙🏹👍✅

[@GladeGardner]

Pick up your can’s 😢

[@BowDisciples]

We did

[@White_devil1980]

Hopefully you don’t shoot any that are pregnant 😢

[@BowDisciples]

It's a male lol

[@White_devil1980]

@@BowDisciples ok

[@50magz]

​@@BowDisciples well you never know these days he may have declared as a female

[@alexreyes2231]

Well done!!!!! Taylor 🦬🦬

[@BowDisciples]

🙏🙏🙏

[@FishinOnaMission]

@ranchfairy