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I received a call this morning from Lonny's Dad asking me to post this up for Lonny. While hunting with Pierre Von Tonder Lonny managed to take an Elephant with aprox. 1.8 meter tusks. That works out to aprox 70.2 inches. He will fill in all the details along with pictures when he returns. Take care, Dave | ||
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Congratulations to Jumbo on his jumbo.  | |||
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Congrats to Canuck32! I love those long East African tusks. Mike Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer. | |||
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YAHOOOOO! If you own a gun and you are not a member of the NRA and other pro 2nd amendment organizations then YOU are part of the problem. | |||
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I hate to say this to Retreever, but Pierre thinks they may weigh 10 #'s more than his. That's close to 80 #'s. What an elephant! JudgeG ... just counting time 'til I am again finding balm in Gilead chilled out somewhere in the Selous. | |||
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Way to go Lonny, I am very happy for you and assume you had a great Kabuki Kabuki over that one. Sorry I missed you at the Sea Cliff a couple weeks ago. We left a little early. ALLEN W. JOHNSON - DRSS Into my heart on air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. A. E. Housman | |||
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CONGRATULATIONS! pictures pictures pictures! TerryR | |||
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That is awesome news! Way to go Lonny!!! TerryR...Lonny's trip is 28 days and he's only about 8 or 9 days into it, so I assume we will be waiting for pics for a few weeks! Cheers, Canuck | |||
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Congratulations to Canuck. PS Up to the top.  | |||
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Rumor is that it's a biggun. Congrats. ------------------------------- Will / Once you've been amongst them, there is no such thing as too much gun. --------------------------------------- and, God Bless John Wayne. NRA Benefactor, GOA, NAGR _________________________ "Elephant and Elephant Guns" $99 shipped. “Hunting Africa's Dangerous Game" $20 shipped. red.dirt.elephant@gmail.com _________________________ If anything be of note, let it be he was once an elephant hunter, hoping to wind up where elephant hunters go. | |||
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It must be with word spreading this fast!!! I am tickled pink for our good buddy Canuck32! Cheers, Canuck | |||
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Lonny, Let me offer my congratulations on a fine large tusker... How big are those tusks??? Well my pair when laid on the couch there is no room for anyone to sit there...I am still smiling and know how Lonny is smiling and disbelief... Till he looks down in front his tent Zanzibar and sees the ivory sticking up out of the ground waiting for Magessa to pull them free in 14 days... Yhe best on the rest of your time in the Selous... Mike I am in Raleigh, N.C. painting my son's new home.. | |||
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Congratulation to Lonny, lot of photos please Ahmed Sultan | |||
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I was at the Sea Cliff the other night and met Lonnie and talked to Pierre and his son. Saw pictures of his Elephant and it is a beast for sure. He also got some other great trophies as well, one being a huge lesser Kudu. He said he would post pictues when he got back. Sounded like a great hunt. York, SC | |||
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Wow, congratulations! I look forward to the pix also! No trophy quite like an elephant trophy. On the plains of hesitation lie the bleached bones of ten thousand, who on the dawn of victory lay down their weary heads resting, and there resting, died. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch... Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son! - Rudyard Kipling Life grows grim without senseless indulgence. | |||
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Good going Lonny! Seems like elephants are getting bigger and bigger each year. 465H&H | |||
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Congrats to him. Man, what a nice bull. Hope the government fees are not getting him! | |||
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As usual, we'll be waiting for the pics. . . . | |||
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Just got back and had a great trip. I'll post the story as soon as I can. For now here is a couple of pictures.   If you have that much to fight for, then you should be fighting. The sentiment that modern day ordinary Canadians do not need firearms for protection is pleasant but unrealistic. To discourage responsible deserving Canadians from possessing firearms for lawful self-defence and other legitimate purposes is to risk sacrificing them at the altar of political correctness." - Alberta Provincial Court Judge Demetrick    | |||
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A dream come true! "There are worse memorials to a life well-lived than a pair of elephant tusks." Robert Ruark | |||
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Couldn't happen to a finer feller. Congrats!! The chef | |||
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 Congrats Lonny!! Cheers, Canuck | |||
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Lonny, and Pierre what a super trophy elephant... Many of you do not know Twiga, the Masai tracker in the photo is maybe 6 foot 5 inches tall... and damn the length of that ivory WOW Mike  | |||
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Awesome! ~Ann  | |||
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Congratulations I'm looking forward to the full trip report. | |||
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THAT'S an ELEPHANT! A wonderful trophy and a bunch of superb memories I'll bet. Congratulations!!!!! Mike -------------- DRSS, Womper's Club, NRA Life Member/Charter Member NRA Golden Eagles ... Knifemaker, http://www.mstarling.com | |||
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What a honker. Congrats. ------------------------------- Will / Once you've been amongst them, there is no such thing as too much gun. --------------------------------------- and, God Bless John Wayne. NRA Benefactor, GOA, NAGR _________________________ "Elephant and Elephant Guns" $99 shipped. “Hunting Africa's Dangerous Game" $20 shipped. red.dirt.elephant@gmail.com _________________________ If anything be of note, let it be he was once an elephant hunter, hoping to wind up where elephant hunters go. | |||
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WOW. Great ivory. Congrats. JPK  Free 500grains | |||
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Awesome elephant, man, I hope I get to do that someday. Congrats! I heal fast and don't scar. | |||
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Actually Twiga is 6-7 and a tad. Long tusks for sure.. Lonny, you have made all of us at Pierre van Tonder safaris very proud. Congratulations on a great hunt and thank you for your past and present bookings with us..A safari is the place to make lifetime friendships and we appreciate yours. Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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That's some great ivory. Heavy for Tanz ivory, isn't it? | |||
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Congratulations! Awesome trophy! Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | |||
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