That is an attractive price. Driving from Ohio to Oklahoma would be a two day ordeal one way and would add say four hundred to the round trip cost for gas, lodging, meals.
Just went from San Diego to southern Montana for a buffalo hunt, also on a ranch. Three guys shared fuel costs, not bad (about $215 apiece for a 4x4 Dodge dually diesel with a big camper on the back, and a lot of buffalo meat in it on the way back).
As far as this vs. high fence hunting ranches, there is some difference. If you've hunted buffalo, you'll understand the difference. Buffalo are not like antelope; they can move faster than they seem to, but they don't exactly go streaking across the plains. They're not like elk in the wooded mountains, where you might look for a few days and not see one, then, when you do, it will be running away. Buffalo herds are easy to see, and they often stand around after one is shot.
We used handloaded .45-70 and .50-90 BP cartridge buffalo rifles. Of the four of us, I was the only one with a modern-manufactured Sharps replica. The other three rifles, and an additional backup, were originals from the 1870s. Sights were original or in my case, identical to the originals, which is to say, tiny and a bit hard to see. We butchered the meat ourselves, most of it in a cold barn, and the rest of it at home.
For almost a week, we stayed out on the plains in primitive canvas tents, chopped and burned wood for heat. A couple of the guys were extremely well-versed in the history of the area and of buffalo hunting in the 1870s, and I learned a lot. The rancher who owned the place had an incredible collection of historic firearms from the 1850s through 1890s, nearly all of them with a specific and significant history in the area.
We had pickup trucks instead of horsedrawn wagons, and we used a tractor to help retrieve and gut carcasses. Otherwise, though, we got to experience a lot of what it was like to hunt buffalo, when hunting them on the open plains was feasible, without actually risking our lives.
It wasn't like hunting deer in San Diego County. That's some of the most difficult hunting there is, believe it or not. When I bought a tag this year the woman at Fish and Game smiled and thanked me for the donation. Few hunters get a deer here, though a fair number of us go and try. Well over 90% of tags are never turned in, this year, due to fire closures, it was probably more than 95%.
The buffalo hunting was, however, a lot harder hunting than hunting deer in many areas in the US, where people commonly get a deer on opening day, and go back and buy more tags.
It was probably a lot like it was in the 1870s. The buffalo we were after roamed free, and were only confined to the ranch we were on by rickety fences on the perimeter. They weren't in some high-fence enclosure, and we had to go searching for them over a lot of land area. It wasn't a "gimme" and it took us several days to actually get a shot at them. It was cold, we lived outdoors in single-digit temperatures, and it was a great experience. But buffalo is a species of wild cattle that lives in the open in the plains and rolling hills. They're not some elusive animal that lives deep in the woods, and they never were.
Now, had we done it in a half day, with scoped magnums, and let someone else do all the butchering, that would have been a "canned hunt", though there's nothing wrong with shooting your own meat IMO. I will just say that there's a better way to have the experience, and I was lucky enough to get invited along, even if I grumbled at the PITA of loading the .45-70 cartridges. They had to be specifically fitted to each different gun, and that led to much frustration.
What we experienced was a taste of 1870s buffalo hunting, and I have no regrets (and a lot of great meat!).
