so what do you think the weight is?????

cheers

Nick

PS I'm 5'11"

Holy Mother...100-120 pounds..??

Must be The Holy Grail of tusks....when and where were they taken..?

Incredible. The length is amazing.
I will guess 140.

+-160lb and 175"!

130 & 145lbs +/-

190 and 200?

70 & 75, The guy is a midget! j/k of course.

WOW, how about 150 or so? The length if fabulous, but is the mass sorta average? Do the tusks look a bit slender due to the length, or are they somewhat slender?

No matter, the full of many lifetimes!

Nick! Wow nice mount of our Dande Tusker! I think we made the right decision turning down the heavier bull for the prettier ivory!!! 150 and 160lbs! See you soon!

How big?

Bigger than any one that I killed , probably bigger than any two that I killed .

Mammoth? At Purdey`s?

I believe there is a bit of an illusion in that photo. There appears to be some type of ivory colored connector between the tusks and the bases.

The tusks actually start above the guy's knee level.

Wonderful ivory none the less.

My guess is 120lbs.

Buzz is this actually one of your hunters?

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Originally posted by Buzz Charlton:
Nick! Wow nice mount of our Dande Tusker! I think we made the right decision turning down the heavier bull for the prettier ivory!!! 150 and 160lbs! See you soon!

Buzz. I will buy your whole quota
Why did you show us only your smaller elephants in the DVDs? Cheers

140-150 lbs?

If those are the tusks from the Bronx Zoo they are about 150/140.

If not that is still my guess.

Bigger than anything that will ever be legally hunted ever again, unfortunately.

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Originally posted by Fjold:
Bigger than anything that will ever be legally hunted ever again, unfortunately.

Don't bet on that...... there are still big boys out there...... perhaps not many but they are there.

I'll keep you guys in suspense a little longer!!

I'll leave the post open for a full 24 hrs before I give you all the info on this truly magnificent pair of tusks.

There are some very experienced guys having educated guesses so far.

I can reveal they are well over 100Lb each.

cheers

Nick

I'm guessing 180 and 210.

150lbs. They are beautiful.

Mike

Scientific Wild Ass Guess from a north Texas boy, 145 for the right tusk, 170 for the left tusk, and I do not know one damn thing about elephants.

Does not really matter, they are damned impressive.

Somewhere 140ish

122 & 136 lbs ?

146/146

Somehow the bases don't seem big /heavy enough to be holding tusks of that size. Are they copies ?

left 152 right 168 !

I understand that the winner will receive the WR ordered by the gentleman in picture ??

Guys,
There is no way I'm parting with the WR , that's for sure!!!

Nick

Ok
A little more info, the tusks reside at Westley Richards in Birmingham,England.

They are the most magnificent set I have laid eyes on, and I doubt I"ll ever see a set of those teeth on a live ele.

I was at WR when discussing a new Droplock 500 double rifle.

"Trigger" Tregear the WR gun room manager told me that they came from mid 19 century Tanzania/ Kenya area and weigh in at approx 160lbs.
I will email Trigger and see if I can get exact weights for you all, but it seems JK, Buzz, Crazyhorse and Norwegian Morten all seem to be close to the mark.!!

Well done guys, and if ever in UK , you need to check out the Westley Richards store.

Cheers


Nick

144 and 146. I'm not sure but I think I recognize them.

I guess not. I was thinking of these tusks.

quote:

Originally posted by nickh:
I doubt I"ll ever see a set of those teeth on a live ele.

I was at WR when discussing a new Droplock 500 double rifle.

Cheers
Nick

These are probably the biggest I've set eye's on. Most likely been poached by now up in Tsavo;

Adam,
That's a BIG TUSKER!!!! Which year did you see him?

Cheers

Nick