A gunsmith friend sent me this pic from a recent trip to Tanzania. His daughter and her husband took this large croc, estimated to be about 80 years old, 14.5 feet:

Thanks! Love dem crocs!

Mmmmm, nice.

How do you age a crocodile?

That�s a big trophy!! Some days ago I�ve seen a documental about a croc in Burundi, rated as the biggest in all of Africa. It measured more than 6 meters and was credited with killing several locals.....unfortunately its end was not known, but his age was guessed at 60. That�s many years short of the beastie in the picture.

You may be referring to the recent PBS documentary on "Gustave". He was a really big croc, near 18 feet. Mysteriously disappeared after the filming, thought to have been machine gunned by the military (after eating quite a few locals). There's some articles on the web about him. Don't know how they estimate crocs' ages.



Here's another pic of my friend's son-in-law:

The second picture gives a much better perspective of the size of the croc, but unfortunately doesn't seem to capture the beautiful scenery that the first one had.

Great Croc(!), great looking rifle, Hot wife and a father inlaw who's a gunsmith....Lucky Guy!!!

Tell us more about his Tanzanian hunt. What other animals did he take?

Regards,
Dave

Nice crocs.

Here is two links to GUSTAVE.

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