Hi folks we had our annual AGM and BALL on Friday the 2nd which again was a huge success..5am and a headache is what we ended up with, here are some of the winners of our annual awards

Best Ph for 2011: Thierry Labat
Best Bow hunter for 2011: Thierry labat
Best Lion ( 26 4/16 ): Rob Styles
Best Elephant ( 93 lbs ): Mark Element
Best Elephant average out of 3 (average 70.6 lbs ): Mark Element
Best Leopard ( 17 " ): Jannie Meyer
Best buffalo ( total 126" ): Clive Hallimore
Best sable ( total 109 ) : Guav Johnson
Widest buffalo ( 46.5" ): Clive Hallimore
Best antelope ( eland total 107" ): Clive Hallimore
Best Aquatic animal ( crocodile 16 ' 1" ): Spike Claasens
Best Big game animal outside Zimbabwe ( buffalo 48.5" ) : Wayne Clark
Best Plains game animal outside Zimbabwe ( sable 49" ): Clint Burton
Best PH on the proficiency: Dalton Tink
Best Guide on the proficiency: Lewis Mangaba
Best wildlife photographer: Candy Pieters
" Skippy ' award: Louis Muller
Best contribution to the association: Emmie from our ZPHGA and SOAZ office.
The ' Gallantry award' was not given out this year, we can be thankful that there were no serious injuries in the field.

Thank you to our donors.

Shlomo LePar
TCI
Nehimba lodge
John Rennie
SCI

Thank you to the ladies from Mystique event centre for an outstanding event and all the hard work.

Again the Ball was a great success with over 170 hunters/ guides and their wives. We had John Boretsky from SCI as our honored guest ( thank you again John and SCI for the cash donation towards ZPHGA ) we managed to raise enough funds to again send one of our representatives to the Dallas show and the SCI show in Las Vegas which is very important as she can answer questions on legal operators, hunters an guides as well as various rules and regulations currently in place in Zimbabwe. Thank you to George Pangetti ( the Chairman of the board of Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Authority and Power Mpunga ( head of hunting ), your presence was appreciated.

Book only with members of SOAZ and ZPHGA, our members will look after you, for a list of ZPHGA members please contact me on email, martin@bulembisafaris.co.zw

For any donations towards ZPHGA however small ( or big ) please feel free to contact me, every little bit counts to making Zimbabwe what we all know it to be, the premier destination for your African safari.
Remember we would like you to join our association as ' associate members ' for a fee of $ 50/ annum you could be one of us.

Martin Pieters
ZPHGA CHAIRMAN

Some reputable names there.
Tierry been doing outstanding thing of late.

Tierry had a great season and all of the entries this year were fantastic, the trophy quality coming out of Zimbabwe continues to get better.

Great evening nice to see some guys there from Harare , hopefully next year we will see Buzz and the boys there ,,

Congratulations to Dalton and Candy!

Their's are the only two names that I know. I see that Guav beat Pierre out for best sable, it must have been a monster.

Congratulations to all, but especially to my good friend Thierry Labat. Your achievements are a credit to Zimbabwe, Zambezi Hunters and hunting in general, but most of all they are a credit to you my friend. The years of dedication are paying off now.

I won't tell anyone I told them so.

Dave

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Originally posted by David Hulme:
Congratulations to all, but especially to my good friend Thierry Labat. Your achievements are a credit to Zimbabwe, Zambezi Hunters and hunting in general, but most of all they are a credit to you my friend. The years of dedication are paying off now.

I won't tell anyone I told them so.

Dave

+1

I've been telling y'all that boy was good!

Seriously, congratulations to my good friend Labat. An honor well earned and well deserved.

I wonder if any beer or alcohol gets consumed at this event?

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Originally posted by safari-lawyer:

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Originally posted by David Hulme:
Congratulations to all, but especially to my good friend Thierry Labat. Your achievements are a credit to Zimbabwe, Zambezi Hunters and hunting in general, but most of all they are a credit to you my friend. The years of dedication are paying off now.

I won't tell anyone I told them so.

Dave

+1

I've been telling y'all that boy was good!

Seriously, congratulations to my good friend Labat. An honor well earned and well deserved.

Well I guess you gave me a decent recommendation, Will.

Wow, pretty impressive honor with the numerous fantastic PH's in Zim.

Heck, I might be able to hunt with Thierry again in about 2025!

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Originally posted by MJines:
I wonder if any beer or alcohol gets consumed at this event?

Mike, a LOT of beer...............

Martin, it would appear you were still suffering from the after effects of all that beer when you tried to spell the names of the winners

It is also nice to see Rob Style recognized for his work!

An impressive Lion!

Congrats my friend!

Les

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Originally posted by safari-lawyer:

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Originally posted by David Hulme:
Congratulations to all, but especially to my good friend Thierry Labat. Your achievements are a credit to Zimbabwe, Zambezi Hunters and hunting in general, but most of all they are a credit to you my friend. The years of dedication are paying off now.

I won't tell anyone I told them so.

Dave

+1

I've been telling y'all that boy was good!

Seriously, congratulations to my good friend Labat. An honor well earned and well deserved.

Will - As you know, I hunted with Thierry in the CAR a few years ago. He really is a good PH, and a really nice/fun guy to hunt with.

Congrats to all the winners!!!!

That we were David,that we were...apologies.

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Originally posted by LHowell:
It is also nice to see Rob Style recognized for his work!

An impressive Lion!

Congrats my friend!

Les

And fortunately he managed to keep this lion's teeth from sinking into him!

Martin, whatever happened to Nixon Dzingai's 100 pound elephant bull? I heard he entered it and who wouldn't? I was expecting to hear that bull announced as the winner...And didn't one of his clients also take a 48 inch buffalo? Didn't he enter???? A couple of these results actually came as a surprise to me, I thought Nixon was a clear winner in ele bull/buff categories...

Cheers, David

Hi David

There are certain criteria for entries and apparently Nixon never took these into consideration. There is a panel that assesses the entries and deliberates, I am not sure Nixon even entered trophies.

Congrats to all of the winners!

Anyone have photos of these beasts? I'd love to see them!

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Best Big game animal outside Zimbabwe ( buffalo 48.5" ) : Wayne Clark
Best Plains game animal outside Zimbabwe ( sable 49" ): Clint Burton

Thanks Martin;

May I ask what what the "Skippy" award is and what did "Mhangura" Louis do to derserve it? I hunted with him years ago now. Great guy. If you see him, say hello from "Pumkin".

Thanks,

Buff

Nixon entered the elephant and buffalo but did not included the required photos. The elephant was 101 lbs which made his elephant average this year 71 lbs.

Buffet

The ' skippy' award is given out each year to a PH that has ' in a funny way ' had something hilarious happen to him in the field whether it was his doing or not! examples of the ' skippy ' award are as follows:

2009
Winner: Chris ' skippy' Burton
For being ' mauled ' by a wounded genet cat whilst in the field.

2010
Winner: Ross Johnston
For managing to successfully sneak up on a ' dead ' hippo, getting his client to ' brain' it and then finding out it was a cow that had been dead for 2 days.

2011
Winner: Louis Muller
For leaving his weapon under the bait tree overnight whilst hunting lion ( probably hoping the cat would shoot itself ) and then on the follow up of the wounded lion , managing to point out a shoot ' dead' a tree.

Martin

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Originally posted by martin pieters:
Buffet

The ' skippy' award is given out each year to a PH that has ' in a funny way ' had something hilarious happen to him in the field whether it was his doing or not! examples of the ' skippy ' award are as follows:

2009
Winner: Chris ' skippy' Burton
For being ' mauled ' by a wounded genet cat whilst in the field.

2010
Winner: Ross Johnston
For managing to successfully sneak up on a ' dead ' hippo, getting his client to ' brain' it and then finding out it was a cow that had been dead for 2 days.

2011
Winner: Louis Muller
For leaving his weapon under the bait tree overnight whilst hunting lion ( probably hoping the cat would shoot itself ) and then on the follow up of the wounded lion , managing to point out a shoot ' dead' a tree.

Martin

This is great. I wish we could have a post/book of PH follies. We all mess up, but we also think many PHs are infallible. I don't want to see some of the stuff that has caused so much tension on AR, but some of the above. I think a lot of the PHs that post here are modest enough to write about funny stories. Heck, even stories about anonymous clients.

Too funny!

Thanks Martin revenge will be sweet .......

Funny stuff Mart!

Congrats to the 2011 winners! Attaboy Dalt!

And hats off to you Marty and Candy for everything you guys did putting this event together, I am sure it takes a lot of work.

Thanks Martin, that's great stuff!

That young Muller is a consumate professional and humble enough to laugh at himself!

Buff

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Originally posted by Buffet:
Thanks Martin;

May I ask what what the "Skippy" award is and what did "Mhangura" Louis do to derserve it? I hunted with him years ago now. Great guy. If you see him, say hello from "Pumkin".

Thanks,

Buff

What goes on tour stays on tour.

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Originally posted by fairgame:

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Originally posted by Buffet:
Thanks Martin;

May I ask what what the "Skippy" award is and what did "Mhangura" Louis do to derserve it? I hunted with him years ago now. Great guy. If you see him, say hello from "Pumkin".

Thanks,

Buff

What goes on tour stays on tour.

Thankfully...