Bugger said "I think it would be fun to hunt a buffalo or a bison with one."

It was fun! My 1886 45-90 has done both and an elephant.

I used one of those African loads to shoot a running bison at 45 yards and it shot through both shoulders and kept going. The Bison did not keep going.

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