I have posted many of these before, but it was ages ago and nobody minds a bit of repeat action, right?


Buffalo cow charge, Chewore




Boom, and down..




Sand snake scoffing lizard










Boomslang scoffing tree frog








Leopards and lions on bait










John Kirlin prevents me from being scribbled on the Turgwe river..




Lioness charge, Chewore























Bob Glick shoots a kudu bull at 150 yards with a 500.










PH Rich Tabor and elephant size each other up...




How not to...




Rhino charge!!



And the most fearsome of all!

Awesome photos. Thanks for posting.


Love them all but the Rhino charge is great !!!

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Looks like a well used old musket dropping the buff.

Awesome!

Excellent!

Speaking of John Kirlin...anyone heard from our old friend JPK lately???

Glad you like the pictures chaps...

Lane, I haven't heard anything from him in ages...Used to have an email address, will dig it out and write him.

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Originally posted by David Hulme:

Great photos. You're braver than me. I was trying to get a picture rather like the top one when he turned and charged the truck. I stopped trying to get my hands on a camera and started trying to climb on to the Rover's hood.

Dean

Thanks for posting. great shots

Enjoyed them. Thanks for posting and hope for more.
Max

That little blk. rhinos mama charged Thierrys hunting truck in Sango back in Sept. while we were taking photos of mom & brat, she did not appreciate the intrusion & let us know it!
It was pop the clutch & gas it time!
Great photos, thanks for sharing.

Great pics!

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Rhino charge!!

I have heard of "roading" your dogs but never your Rhino.


Thanks David, it is always nice to see some action shots.

Thanks for the comments folks. maki, I doubt very much that I am braver than you. You should have seen how I bolted a millisecond after snapping that badger in full charge! bwana cecil, that would have to have been Jimmy's aunt, because his mama went to rhino heaven in 2007, care of an AK bullet... Actually, it would be really cool if the one which charged you was his future girlfriend - he is a mature bull now...

I am resuming my never-ending borderline walk soon - short stint down to Gonarezhou. When I get to Mahenya, am going to pull out and go visit my parents and the Whittall's in the conservancy. Whilst there I will find Jimmy and post an update when I return.

Cheers, David

Does Jimmy still put his head through the lounge room window for a scratch and a snack?

Great photos there.Thank you for sharing.

Best-
Locksley,R

Loved the photos!!!!

Best regards, D. Nelson

Absolutely wonderful photos.

Mike

Thanks again everyone.

Milo Shanghai, that old musket is in the hands of a true old hunter, Magara Dirapenga, Roger Whittall's right hand man for many years. Unforgivably, I can't remember what rifle it is...I want to say .450 something or other but know I'll be wrong..But I will find out, I am bleak I can't remember...Magara let drive but am still not sure if he connected, Tim Hauck from Michigan put the cow down with a couple of well placed .375 shots..PH Pete Wood was hovering but didn't shoot..

controlled feed, I doubt Jimmy's head would fit through that window now! But I'm sure he still visits Anne fairly regularly. As I said, I will report on his progress soon, hopefully I get some good pictures.

Now about those leopards in the trail cam pictures....What do you guys reckon? Anyone willing to make a call on any of them? Just for interest's sake? Here are some more angles. Let us say this is the scenario: You and your PH have got these 2 cats feeding and you are in camp checking out these trail cam pics. Which one are you going to sit on? Unfortunately you can't enter spoor into the equation because the entire hunting area is very rocky, no soil. Eating manner? Both get stuck in, crunch some bone, like males. Not like the leopard king, obviously, but like shootable males. Where are you going to sit? Oh yes, it is the second last night of your hunt....

Leopard No 1:












Leopard No 2:





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looks like 2 leopards on that last bait posted. The cat on the bottom picture is smaller and a head that is not as big as the first and it may be a female?? As soemone who has never seen one in the wild i am making a guess on that of course.

Flip a coin & go home happy with either one.
Of course, I don't know sheep crap from shinola shoe polish about leopards, but I like them both.

Great pics! Thanks for sharing!

Action shots though, huh? Hmm. Oh, Saeeeeeeeeeed!

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Originally posted by Kamo Gari:
Great pics! Thanks for sharing!

Action shots though, huh? Hmm. Oh, Saeeeeeeeeeed!

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Good luck with the rest of the walk Dave.
Regards
Rob

nube, for a guy who's never seen a leopard in the wild you made a good call. If I didn't know the stories of these cats, I would have said exactly the same as Bwana Cecil!

The first leopard is indeed a tom, one my brother turned down a few years ago. Nobody has ever managed to determine what sex the second one is, although about 50 pictures were taken. We obviously weren't hunting leopard when the second cat was snapped, given the trailcam flash and small chunk of meat, just checking them out. I enjoyed some quality entertainment a while back with those pictures. Just after parks banned the shooting of female leopards, and the penalty for shooting a female became known, I attended a rather heated meeting about the matter between parks, operators and PH's. One of the big arguments against the law was that in hunting nothing is clear cut and a genuine accident could lead to career changing consequences for a PH. Parks countered this by saying any PH worth his salt should know the difference between a male and a female. Once the meeting was concluded, I set up my laptop and every man there looked at every picture of that leopard, as many times as they wanted. I enhanced many of them for the purpose, to make it look bigger. It went on for a while. Every man there, PH's and parks guys, called it a male, except for Barry Style who said he could see no proof it was a male. A point was proven, not that any of them would ever admit it.

Kamo, I'm glad you enjoyed the pictures but why are you drawing the principal's attention to me? I am a bit slow, but have spent the whole day trying to figure it out...Could have affected my performance in the cricket match today, if I had less control...

Thanks Rob, I may finish before I'm 50

I will just tag this on the end here instead of starting another boring thread: The many loose ends of the anti poaching raffle have eventually been tied up, all I am waiting to hear is that Saeed received his print and I can declare it game over. Without whining, it turned into a bit of a headache, mainly due to printing/shipping here in Zim. Anyway, 3 or 4 months late but it's done and if I ever do something similar I will research and plan it more thoroughly. Jytte, Keith, Saeed, my sincere apologies for the major delay. Bottom line is that the conservancy made $1400, not a lot but better than a kick in the ass. 90% of that money came from hunters on AR. I will announce the lucky winner soon, just waiting on the Mayor of Mutare, Mr Brian James, to do the draw. He has been very busy lately as the government is investigating him for being too honest - trying to find out where the missing millions from the Mutare council coffers have gone, and treading on some toes it seems. Anyway, he has assured me he'll be able to see me next week so we will do the draw and announce a winner...

Cheers, have a good weekend, David

Great to see some of these again David. I hope you get some new pics of Jimmy when your with the Whittall's. Cheers!