ready, aim, fire

 

Can you spot the white buffalo without a telescope?  The target, not the sign!  This is the rifle silhouette range at the Whittington Center.  The white buffalo is 1,123 yards up the hill, in the clearing even with the head of the sign buffalo.  Those other black spots down range are silhouette targets for chickens at 200 meter, pigs at 300 meters and rams at 500 meters.

 

NRA Whittington Center

Raton, New Mexico

8.21.2016

 

the buffalo nursery

 

We were fortunate today to see hundreds of buffalo with their cinnamon-colored calves, many newly-born.  It was a perfect day with blue skies, green grass and yellow sweet clover in bloom.  Nearly 1,300 bison, commonly called buffalo, roam the prairies and hills of Custer State Park, which they share with swift pronghorn, shy elk and curious burros.

 

Custer State Park

South Dakota