Get ready.” George quickly got to me and helped me get my bow to full draw, just as I saw the tip of the bull’s nose above us. George barely got his eyes above the bank when he turned and said, “Oh, my gosh. When George peeped over the bank of the river to try and spot the buffalo, he laid his backup gun against the bank. We went a few hundred yards in thigh-deep water. If there was a crocodile in the river, and he wanted me for dinner, I never would see him until he attacked. I looked at George and said, “You’ve got to be kidding.” George looked me straight in the eye and asked, “Nicole, do you want to shoot this bull, or not?” When we circled around and got in the river, the water was murky. George said, “For the correct wind, we need to circle around the bull, get down in the river and stalk him from the river.” We had seen crocodiles only 200-yards upstream. Even though we’d already had several encounters with this big old bull, I never had had an opportunity to shoot.įinally we found the Houdini bull sitting under a shade tree in the middle of the day. George suggested we try and take the Houdini bull that he really wanted me to take. I had only one more day (the last day of the hunt) to try and take my buffalo.
Because I was filming Pat, I was as excited as he was. The first day Pat hunted, he took a beautiful bull with his bow. I hunted for 8 days and never got a shot. Everything on the hunt seemed to be going against me.
We would get close, the wind would change, and the buffalo would run off, or we would get in close, and the water buffalo would spot us. We made five unsuccessful stalks on water buffalo. We explained the problem to our guide, and he said he could make it happen. The bow has 80-percent let-off, so I knew I could hold, aim and shoot the bow, once the cams turned over. Pat decided if I was going to shoot a water buffalo with this arrow and this bow, our guide George would to have to break the bow over for me before the shot. I lifted weights and tried and tried as hard as I could to pull that bow. Finally, Pat cranked my bow up to about 75 pounds. My heavy arrow wasn’t flying straight at all. When we got the arrows, Pat could make his arrows fly straight, because he shot a 90-pound Mathew’s Monster bow, but I only was pulling 55 pounds. With broadheads attached, they weighed 1,000 grains. To penetrate that hide, Pat asked Lumenok to build us some really-heavy arrows. We were hunting with George Stewart of Leithen Valley Outfitters in New Zealand. This big buffalo was huge, he was old, and he vanished every time we saw him. For 3 days, I had hunted for the “Houdini” water buffalo bull and was unsuccessful. Pat already had taken his water buffalo in New Zealand. Today we wanted to hear Nicole’s side of the story.
THE THRILL OF THE CHASE A ROCKY RIVERBED TV
Last week, Pat Reeve told us about filming his wife Nicole when she was 5-feet away from a monstrous water buffalo named Houdini for their TV show “Driven with Pat and Nicole” on the Outdoor Channel. Editor’s Note: What would you do if there only was a bow and an arrow between you and possibly the hunt of a lifetime.
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