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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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jinxx4ever said:
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Cindy Prado - that is probably the best picture she has even taken...



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XTR said:
If you take the time and do the math it didn't happen that way. There is no doubt that the buffalo were over hunted, and that they may have been hunted out in some areas, but take into account that the buffalo heard was estimated to be 60 to 70 million try to imagine how many hunters, how much lead (400 gr per bullet), powder, wagons, and skinners to get into the most remote parts of the un-settled plains... it didn't happen that way.

There are accounts of pioneers in WY finding entire valleys covered in buffalo carcasses. The real problem was disease.

It turns out that the decline in the buffalo corresponds to the time of the first cattle drives to bring cattle from TX to WY. It if far more likely, and logical that disease wiped out the buffalo. When you do the math and take into account the short period of time that the decline happened.

Most records seem to show that the hunters were killing close to a million buffalo a yr. A million a yr in a heard of even 50 million? That would barely be noticible to the total, though it could remove the population in certain areas, like near the rail roads where it was easy to get the hides and meat back to market. The "hunt" ended in about 1884. Even at 2 million a yr from 1864 to 1884 that is only 40 million, now take into account the reproduction rate and add back at least 10 to 20 million and it's just not making sense.
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Fuck, I leave for a few days and this thread adds 8 pages.
the issue is not really how much they hunted, the fact that they were not smart enough to stop when populations go low. It is my understanding there is actually no 100% bison left (willing to accept being wrong on that) as even the most pure bred bison has 10% cow DNA.
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