I don't know the hunt story, but I think Larry will stop by to fill us in.

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

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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.

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Looks like a big tuskless cow. If it wasn't for dick dangling between his legs.

Exactly!

that seems a little too obvious... but I don't see anything else out of the ordinary

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

No flap covering the ear hole??, or maybe it is folded back. The background looks like south Alabama.

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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.

Did it snow after the hunt?

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Originally posted by ErikD:

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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.

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

That is not the "tumor" that I see!

Nice tuskless ... "cow".

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.

hermophroditele?

I too noticed the looks like a pecker on a tuskless cow????


Mike

Anyway Larry good shooting...

Sorta looks like a socket where a tusk should be on the right side of his trunk. Edited photo? Just a wild guess.

A 17'5" African Rock Python got coils around both left legs as the elephant fell.

No Toe nails. It's an Indian elephant.

Your tree fell down........

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.

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.

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...

The ele looks wet, but everything is dusty around it.

Is it...dead?

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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. couldn't resist.

Cheers,
Canuck

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

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!!!!

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!

Looks like a tuskless bull, that's all. If it is, you should consider yourself lucky, as they are quite the rarity.

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

I'm with Rug on the ear thing.

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.

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.

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

should say congrats---so here goes--congrats on a job well done---chris

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).

???

Whoops. Did you say 45-70?

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

Keep up the guessing. This is fun.

Mickey1 is right, per my location sited below, I was there as the PH It was very fine shooting!!!

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

I found Waldo.

All this for an upside down belt?

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