Candidates Dan Weller and Steve Barry with two of the examiners- Senior Warden Madau and Dave Christensen. The buff had a snare round it’s foot, a 9,3 bullet in it’s neck and an old .458 bullet lodged in a lung!



L-R Stuart Danks (guide) S/W Madau (examiner) Steve Barrie, Provincial Warden David Mpungu, Parks Game scout (with AK); Dan Weller, John Zvinavashe; Paul Kongkow; Mat Stanton.


Walking up a dry river bed in 118° (f) 45°C heat on the first day.



Andy Hunter supervising candidates finishing cleaning elephant skins and feet.



Just because you shoot your elephant late in the day, don’t think you can skin it in the morning!



Why don’t you #@$% off! Kevin Van Breda (a Guide) gets abuse from Roy Ludick (chairman of the association) on the quality of his skinning. Guides have to be able to manage basic skinning, but few are any good. Note the nice “non-trophy†57†kudu taken for rations in the foreground and thousands of strips of elephant meat drying in the back ground.



Sweet Dreams- “Mr C†is always keeping people on their toes. Bruce Cronje crawled back to his bed at 1:00AM blind drunk at the final party to find it occupied. He sobered up fast!

Terry,

Thanks for posting all the threads and photos from this event. Glad they can have some fun along with the testing!

Terry,
Are you saying the buff in the first pic had a bullet in the neck and one in the lung prier to being killed in this exam? I wouldn't have thought it could survive with a .458 lodged in it's lung not for long anyhow.

RayRay,

Will have to wait for Ganyana to respond (I just posted the photos for him).

Regards,

Terry

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Andy Hunter supervising candidates finishing cleaning elephant skins and feet.

Andy about cut off a couple fingers one time when he was assisting the skinners.

Like them damn professors: Those that can't, teach.

Ray - that buff had an RWS TUG lodged in it's neck and the .458 in one lung. We traced the bullet path through from the paunch into that lung. Both were old wounds that had healed. The snare was festering and causing a problem.

I would surmise that the client went for a quatering on neck shot with the 9,3 and the PH backed up with some sort of .458 rifle as it pushed off.

All elephants taken on this exam had healed bullet wounds in the lungs. We recovered 29 AK bullets from the one bull.

Damn! Those buff are tuff, now I see why you guys talk so much about the right bullets and go on and on about enough gun!

Ganyana,

Is Dan still packing that 416 Weatherby a client gave him as a tip?

Perry

Ganyana, Is it seen more than not that dangerous game animals killed by safari hunters are found to have old bullets in their bodies?

I refer to the elephant with the 29 AK bullets for example?

T.Carr thank you for this photos i like to see the work of the professionals of all the world ,can we know a bit more for example the curruculums of madau or Christensen i believe the experiece of these men is invaluable.Juan

I must say as the others, exellent, the PHs should write more about their expieriences and historys from their hunting career.

Ganyana-

"We recovered 29 AK bullets from the one bull."

Yes, and the 30th was in Ganyana's shoulder!

As our good freind the late Jeff Cooper said, "The AK is for the masses and the FN is for the classes."

Andy

Perry

Haven't seen dan since the exam but he was certainly carrying that abomination then!

Big Five- we have not shot a single elephant on the proficiency exam since 1999 that was not carrying extra lead. Those shot in charrara invarably have AK bullets in them.- either from poachers, the tsetse department staf or the army (they still use the old Selous Scout training camp at Wafa Wafa) or even some of our newer game scouts- who are useless. Up in the makuti area they are mostley .303's collected whilst raiding peasant's fields just over the fence.