THE ACCURATERELOADING.COM HUNTING FORUMS

Merry Christmas to our Accurate Reloading Members


Moderators: Saeed
Go
New
Find
Notify
Tools
Reply
  
Larry Burgin elephant
 Login/Join
 
One of Us
posted


I don't know the hunt story, but I think Larry will stop by to fill us in.
 
Posts: 18352 | Location: Salt Lake City, Utah USA | Registered: 20 April 2002Reply With Quote
One of Us
posted Hide Post
Ok guys, as there are no comments and I have not posted the story yet I will give you all something to think about and see how good you really are. Look at the picture closely and see if you can find something not right and no it is not the fat guy holding the rifle. There is something not quite right and lets see who can find it. I will post the story later but you can have some fun with this one.

Larry Burgin aka BigBBear


York, SC
 
Posts: 1149 | Registered: 13 March 2005Reply With Quote
One Of Us
posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by BigBBear:
Ok guys, as there are no comments and I have not posted the story yet I will give you all something to think about and see how good you really are. Look at the picture closely and see if you can find something not right and no it is not the fat guy holding the rifle. There is something not quite right and lets see who can find it. I will post the story later but you can have some fun with this one.

Larry Burgin aka BigBBear


Looks like a big tuskless cow. If it wasn't for the dick dangling between his legs. Wink
 
Posts: 2662 | Location: Oslo, in the naive land of socialist nepotism and corruption... | Registered: 10 May 2002Reply With Quote
One of Us
Picture of 577NitroExpress
posted Hide Post
quote:
Looks like a big tuskless cow. If it wasn't for dick dangling between his legs.


Exactly!


577NitroExpress
Double Rifle Shooters Society
Francotte .470 Nitro Express




If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming...

 
Posts: 2789 | Location: Bucks County, Pennsylvania | Registered: 08 June 2005Reply With Quote
One Of Us
Picture of new_guy
posted Hide Post
that seems a little too obvious... but I don't see anything else out of the ordinary bewildered

Wait a minute... what's that mass at the top of the left, front leg?


www.heymusa.com


HSC Booth # 306
SCI Booth # 3947
 
Posts: 4026 | Registered: 28 May 2004Reply With Quote
one of us
posted Hide Post
No flap covering the ear hole??, or maybe it is folded back. The background looks like south Alabama.
 
Posts: 590 | Location: Georgia pine country | Registered: 21 October 2003Reply With Quote
One Of Us
posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by new_guy:

Wait a minute... what's that mass at the top of the left, front leg?


I think that is what they call muscle in layman's terms. Big Grin
 
Posts: 2662 | Location: Oslo, in the naive land of socialist nepotism and corruption... | Registered: 10 May 2002Reply With Quote
one of us
Picture of Fjold
posted Hide Post
Did it snow after the hunt? Wink


Frank



"I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money."
- Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953

NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite

 
Posts: 12826 | Location: Kentucky, USA | Registered: 30 December 2002Reply With Quote
One Of Us
Picture of new_guy
posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by ErikD:
quote:
Originally posted by new_guy:

Wait a minute... what's that mass at the top of the left, front leg?


I think that is what they call muscle in layman's terms. Big Grin




From this perspective, it looks like a tumor - on the inside of the left front leg.


www.heymusa.com


HSC Booth # 306
SCI Booth # 3947
 
Posts: 4026 | Registered: 28 May 2004Reply With Quote
one of us
Picture of Wendell Reich
posted Hide Post
That is not the "tumor" that I see! Big Grin

Nice tuskless ... "cow".
 
Posts: 6284 | Location: Dallas, TX | Registered: 13 July 2001Reply With Quote
One Of Us
posted Hide Post
New Guy,

That thought crossed my mind, but when I opened it up in Photoshop to look closer, I think it looks like it's just the mucsle bunching up due to how the leg is laying. But I may be wrong of course.
 
Posts: 2662 | Location: Oslo, in the naive land of socialist nepotism and corruption... | Registered: 10 May 2002Reply With Quote
Moderator
posted Hide Post
hermophroditele?
 
Posts: 11017 | Registered: 14 December 2000Reply With Quote
One of Us
Picture of retreever
posted Hide Post
I too noticed the looks like a pecker on a tuskless cow????


Mike

Anyway Larry good shooting... gunsmile


Michael Podwika... DRSS bigbores and hunting www.pvt.co.za " MAKE THE SHOT " 450#2 Famars
 
Posts: 6770 | Location: Wyoming, Pa. USA | Registered: 17 April 2003Reply With Quote
one of us
posted Hide Post
Sorta looks like a socket where a tusk should be on the right side of his trunk. Edited photo? Just a wild guess.
 
Posts: 306 | Location: Originally from Texas | Registered: 17 March 2001Reply With Quote
Moderator
posted Hide Post
A 17'5" African Rock Python got coils around both left legs as the elephant fell.
 
Posts: 11017 | Registered: 14 December 2000Reply With Quote
Moderator
posted Hide Post
No Toe nails. It's an Indian elephant.
 
Posts: 11017 | Registered: 14 December 2000Reply With Quote
one of us
posted Hide Post
Your tree fell down........


Bill
 
Posts: 109 | Location: IL | Registered: 20 July 2002Reply With Quote
One of Us
posted Hide Post
Interesting guesss so far but no one is close. Glad the dick was so obvious that he is not confused for a cow. Just FYI he was with two other very mature bulls but was larger than both in body. Don't think that is a hint. Just missing the teeth and the photo is not edited. Keep looking.


York, SC
 
Posts: 1149 | Registered: 13 March 2005Reply With Quote
Moderator
posted Hide Post
It certainly looks as though something is wrapped around the left foreleg, creating the bulge below. It looks like a multicable wire sling of some sort.
 
Posts: 11017 | Registered: 14 December 2000Reply With Quote
One Of Us
posted Hide Post
There was a small, hardly visible tusk on the side facing down which you didn't see when you shot it?

This is going to keep me awake all night... Big Grin
 
Posts: 2662 | Location: Oslo, in the naive land of socialist nepotism and corruption... | Registered: 10 May 2002Reply With Quote
one of us
Picture of Don_G
posted Hide Post
The ele looks wet, but everything is dusty around it.


Don_G

...from Texas, by way of Mason, Ohio and Aurora, Colorado!
 
Posts: 1645 | Location: Elizabeth, Colorado | Registered: 13 February 2004Reply With Quote
one of us
Picture of Charles_Helm
posted Hide Post
Is it...dead?
 
Posts: 8773 | Location: Republic of Texas | Registered: 24 April 2004Reply With Quote
Moderator
Picture of Canuck
posted Hide Post
quote:
The ele looks wet, but everything is dusty around it.


But you can see the mud from the waterhole behind and to the viewers left.

I am curious about the white protrusion Nickudu identified.

I also see that you were brazenly using a double rifle instead of the recommended 45/70. Wink couldn't resist.

Cheers,
Canuck



 
Posts: 7123 | Location: The Rock (southern V.I.) | Registered: 27 February 2001Reply With Quote
one of us
posted Hide Post
Okay, I want to play too... is there a hole at the bottom of the flap that normally covers the tusk, above the mouth????

D. Nelson
 
Posts: 2271 | Registered: 17 July 2003Reply With Quote
one of us
posted Hide Post
Here's my second guess... is there something wrong with his rt. foreleg knee. It looks crossed over the rt. leg and the rt. leg looks smashed!!!!
 
Posts: 2271 | Registered: 17 July 2003Reply With Quote
Moderator
posted Hide Post
D. Nelson - I noticed those things too but it's hard to say from the photo. The left rear leg looks somewhat stunted too and the edge of the ear melts into the shoulder also, as though it were attached. The only thing that jumps out at me is the swelling at the top of the left foreleg unless those are tusks lying just beyond the water hole! Big Grin
 
Posts: 11017 | Registered: 14 December 2000Reply With Quote
one of us
Picture of Will
posted Hide Post
Looks like a tuskless bull, that's all. If it is, you should consider yourself lucky, as they are quite the rarity.


-------------------------------
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.

 
Posts: 19389 | Location: Ocala Flats | Registered: 22 May 2002Reply With Quote
one of us
posted Hide Post
Larry,

Did you shoot that tuskless bull in the Dande or near to it?

I have some video of a huge bodied tuskless bull from the Dande from the summer of 04.

Greg



 
Posts: 5210 | Registered: 23 July 2002Reply With Quote
one of us
posted Hide Post
I'm with Rug on the ear thing.
 
Posts: 733 | Location: N. Illinois | Registered: 21 July 2002Reply With Quote
One of Us
posted Hide Post
Surestrike, yes this bull came from Dande East. Was hunting with Ingwe Safaris PH Bruce Watson. This might have been the bull you had seen. They jokingly called him bigfoot because of the many times they had tracked him and found no teeth before trackers got his big foot imprinted in their head. Bruce had gotten up on this particular bull twice before but did not have a hunter with a tuskless on liscense. I was the lucky guy and Will you are right, a mature tuskless bull is a rarity.

As to the item you are all looking for in the photo all I will say is that you are not even close. You might not even be looking in the right area. (hint). When you have tired of guessing I will tell you what it is. It is incredibly interesting though to see through all of your eyes things which I had not thought of. That alone was worth the post. As to being dead, yes he is and sadly not to the 45/70.

Keep up the guessing. This is fun.


York, SC
 
Posts: 1149 | Registered: 13 March 2005Reply With Quote
One of Us
posted Hide Post
I think it is a phony picture. A Hollywood backdrop to make it look like Africa.

It was really shot in Times Square on New Years' Eve. thumb
 
Posts: 6277 | Location: Not Likely, but close. | Registered: 12 August 2002Reply With Quote
One of Us
posted Hide Post
is that a huge snake crawling next to the mud hole??? looksl ike it's either coming from or going into that little bush---chris
 
Posts: 294 | Location: Omaha, NE | Registered: 29 September 2005Reply With Quote
One of Us
posted Hide Post
should say congrats---so here goes--congrats on a job well done---chris
 
Posts: 294 | Location: Omaha, NE | Registered: 29 September 2005Reply With Quote
One of Us
Picture of NitroX
posted Hide Post
It has two penises and its feet are very large (you named it "bigfoot" - the first thing I noticed is its very large feet, but I thought that must be perspective).

???


__________________________

John H.

..
NitroExpress.com - the net's double rifle forum
 
Posts: 10138 | Location: Wine Country, Barossa Valley, Australia | Registered: 06 March 2002Reply With Quote
One of Us
Picture of billinthewild
posted Hide Post
Whoops. Did you say 45-70? killpc

quote:
.....As to being dead, yes he is and sadly not to the 45/70.

Keep up the guessing. This is fun.


"When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all."
Theodore Roosevelt
 
Posts: 4263 | Location: Pinetop, Arizona | Registered: 02 January 2006Reply With Quote
One of Us
posted Hide Post
Mickey1 is right, per my location sited below, I was there as the PH animal Big Grin Wink rotflmo lolIt was very fine shooting!!!



Jack

OH GOD! {Seriously, we need the help.}

 
Posts: 2791 | Location: USA - East Coast | Registered: 10 December 2005Reply With Quote
One of Us
posted Hide Post
I am getting ready to board a very long flight home from Singapore so I thought I better close this riddle. It was really interesting seeing the photo through your eyes. I promise as a return I will put together the story. it was a great hunt and I would do it a million times again if I could.

If any of you could really blow up the photo you would see where I screwed up. As it was a non-trophy I wanted something other than bracelets in my trophy room so I had my wife do an enlargement for a framed picture. When I immediately looked at it I remembered back to the day I shot the elephant and had a good laugh. After he was down and all the high fives, etc. I took off my cartridge belt, binos, etc. and relaxed. A little later we were going to take photos and to look the part of the GW Hunter I put all of it back on. After photos I was walking around, etc. and began to notice 470 cartridges on the ground. Thinking that no one was hanging around leaving cartridges I looked down at my shell belt and found in all the excitement I had put it on upside down and all my cartridges were falling out. After corrections were made all was ok. Until I had the blow up made I had completely forgotten but if you can enlarge you will clearly see. Now in my trophy room there is an enlargement of the Great White Hunter with his belt on upside down. A great memory though. Hope you all are not mad that it was such a lame item as this. I forget who but you were right in that the elephant had one deformed tusk inside and the other was a normal tusk broken off inside the lip. I think that is the small white area you see. He did not have a double penis but he had one anyone would cherish if we owned it. Anyway, thanks for being good sports. Will tell you more of the story and the failed effort on a trophy bull later. Hope you guys had fun with the guesses.

Regards,

Larry


York, SC
 
Posts: 1149 | Registered: 13 March 2005Reply With Quote
one of us
Picture of Wendell Reich
posted Hide Post
I found Waldo.
 
Posts: 6284 | Location: Dallas, TX | Registered: 13 July 2001Reply With Quote
one of us
posted Hide Post
All this for an upside down belt?

Hell, I can do that in the morning getting ready for work...

Big Grin Big Grin


Bill
 
Posts: 109 | Location: IL | Registered: 20 July 2002Reply With Quote
  Powered by Social Strata  
 


Copyright December 1997-2023 Accuratereloading.com


Visit our on-line store for AR Memorabilia