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Old 10-21-2013, 07:59 AM
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Originally Posted by j m View Post
Before the Spanish brought the horse to NA, I doubt there was a very high success rate going after buffalo with a bow and lance on foot. The rifle also made huge difference. Both whites and natives hunted them with no restrictions and the population crashed. I can actually say I saw a buffalo on the way home from work last week so they weren't exterminated.

So have we learned from the past what unregulated hunting can do to game populations or should we go down that road again?
There sure was, they use to drive them off cliffs. They also only hunted them for meat, not like the white man who just wanted the fur.