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Ripp,

One hears about guys hunting tame farmed bison. Your neighbours might be ranch raised. But sounds like the meanest of the bunch. Ripped and cut by barbed wire would not have improved his mood. In any case it wasn't a proper hunt. It was dealing with a nuisance angry animal. Still some fun.

I can readily see how animals might not associate horse riders with humans. Same was where back if bakkie "hunters" do not shoot from vehicles. In a vehicle a person can get closer than on foot. Not associated with a human threat.

Back to bison. From my limited experience on some 24 bovines, mostly water buffalo, a cape, a banteng, the rest scrub bulls, the scrub bulls are the most aggressive, most likely to charge. Not necessarily as hard to put down as some others. A scrub bull is probably define as a bull born to a domestic cattle herd, or from cattle originally from such a herd, where the bull has probably never been handled by humans. Evidence might be their horns have never been lopped off. Some might say these bills care "tame milk cows". They have never hunted them.

I rate scrub bulls as top bloody exciting hunting. At times. When they come bellowing down the hill looking for ultra violence.

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I hunted one once that was kept in a very large fenced area.. 4000 acres.. bull got out.. owner tried to get the bull back in the pen.. bison attacked his NEW Ford F-350 truck.. Got a call if I want to kill him I can but I needed to be there in 48 hours.. shot him with my bow as he was eating along some trees near a creek.. was a lot of fun.. and sketchy..also remember it was around -30F the morning I killed him..