The bison rarely come 100-200 yards off the park. They run back if dudes are trying road hunt.
Success requires being prepared to sit in the blind dark to dark.
Get with Jacoby. My buddy knows the Kiabsb and we found where they were crossing. I didn’t need help, but the area where they will be actively crossing is so small, the hunters will be all over each other.
If you join Jacoby’s co-op your odds will increase. He will tell you where they are and work with you. Sometimes, you can get multiple cows out of the herd, for some reason trucks on the road scares them more than shooting. They will work to get as many down as possible, working multiple shooters in. Including non paying clients.
I got a radio from Jacoby as part of the Co-op. I told him what salt I was as sitting and which blind of his I was in. He said, oh, you know how to hunt and he didn’t say boo about me claiming it. He had hunters around me in several other blinds.
The second morning he radioed everyone that the herd was out in the meadow off the highway into the park. Paying and non paying, everyone went.
We all met off a road. I then jumped into front seat of Jacoby’s truck. We drove and pulled off the highway with the herd grazing.
The first guy shot after everyone had a chance to set up. And, boy howdy it turned into a clown rodeo as the bison started moving. Boom boom boom. Jacoby pointed out a cow. I hesitated a moment to give his client a chance, but he couldn’t shoot at the moving cow at 120 yards.
I shot the cow. Only two of us killed off that before they all ran back to the park, out of a mess of us. It was the first guy to shoot the standing cow and me to shoot the moving cow. Fortunately for the client next to me, a smaller cow stayed behind and stood next to my cow, and Jacoby’s client finally got prone and after a couple minutes was able to shoot and kill the third cow.
Say what you will about Jacoby, but the reality is he organizes everyone for success, because one rogue idiot can ruin the hunt. And, get a radio and you will know everything his clients do.
We were lucky because that was the first time that year they left the park and went to the meadow.
You get s long hunt, but get there before they shut the road down from Jacob Lake into the park cause of snow, or that adds a whole new dimension getting back in there.