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Don't want to steal any thunder, but the word is that Aaron Neilson just dropped 85+ pounds of ivory in Malapati. Cannot wait for the details. "You only gotta do one thing well to make it in this world" - J Joplin | ||
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I liked it better when Malapati was a secret. Way to go Aaron! "There are worse memorials to a life well-lived than a pair of elephant tusks." Robert Ruark | |||
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WOW! and I bet with his new double... NRA LIFE MEMBER DU DIAMOND SPONSOR IN PERPETUITY DALLAS SAFARI CLUB LIFE MEMBER SCI FOUNDATION MEMBER | |||
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Yes Jack, it is in fact true. Malapati and SSG Safaris has given me a once-in-a-lifetime trophy! Word travels fast, seeing how we shot it only about 27 hrs ago. I am in Harare now, leaving for the states tomorrow. So I will try to do a full report this weekend. We shot this big boy only about 1 mile from the Malapati camp, at about 5pm yesterday evening. He's roughly 19" at the lip, and has 51" right tusk & 55" left tusk, out of the lip. Doing the math, it should put him around 84lbs? Nixon seems to think he's 80 - 85lbs, Phillip Smythe who was with us says 85lbs, and I'll just say he's big! The size of the nerve will obviously be the deciding factor. He wasn't the only big tusker I saw, and he's not the only nice trophy we took. I'll post more asap. Thanks,  | |||
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You bastard !!!!!!!! Congrats bro' a GREAT bull. I expect a story, and truth is optional ! Dave Fulson | |||
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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ J. Lane Easter, DVM A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.– Billy Clayton, Speaker of the Texas House No state commands such fierce pride and loyalty. Lesser mortals are pitied for their misfortune in not being born in Texas.— Queen Elizabeth II on her visit to Texas in May, 1991. | |||
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I am with Scott. Aaron just ruined the place for the rest of us.  Congrats Aaron. Can't wait to hear the whole story,i bet there is a quality buffalo dead?? | |||
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Nice bull Aaron. Not with the double? | |||
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Congratulations Aaron, that looks like a bull of a lifetime. ~Ann   | |||
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I don't know Aaron, but, I HATE HIM NOW!!! Well done man, well done! JW | |||
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 Wow!!!!! Fabulous!!!!! Brett DRSS Life Member SCI Life Member NRA Life Member WSF Rhyme of the Sheep Hunter May fordings never be too deep, And alders not too thick; May rock slides never be too steep And ridges not too slick. And may your bullets shoot as swell As Fred Bear's arrow's flew; And may your nose work just as well As Jack O'Connor's too. May winds be never at your tail When stalking down the steep; May bears be never on your trail When packing out your sheep. May the hundred pounds upon you Not make you break or trip; And may the plane in which you flew Await you at the strip. -Seth Peterson | |||
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I'll second that. ------------------------------- Will Stewart / Once you've been amongst them, there is no such thing as too much gun. --------------------------------------- and, God Bless John Wayne. NRA Benefactor Member, GOA, N.A.G.R. _________________________ "Elephant and Elephant Guns" $99 shipped “Hunting Africa's Dangerous Game" $20 shipped. red.dirt.elephant@gmail.com _________________________ Hoping to wind up where elephant hunters go. | |||
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bbbbut Llamapacker said......  | |||
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Outstanding! | |||
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Simply Amazing. Some guys have all the luck ... and it ain't me! | |||
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Great stuff! Well done. "When the wind stops....start rowing. When the wind starts, get the sail up quick." | |||
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Why didn't you shoot it with the 577? | |||
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Aaron, I am sure you used that 577 and not that bolt trash... Way to go. Mike | |||
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Congratulations to Aaron and Nixon . In five weeks I will be on the ground at Malapati hunting with Nixon. Can't wait to see what the future holds. | |||
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Congrats on a beautiful Bull! Phil Massaro President, Massaro Ballistic Laboratories, LLC NRA Life Member B&C Member www.mblammo.com Hunt Reports- Zambia 2011 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/1481089261 "Two kinds of people in this world, those of us with loaded guns, and those of us who dig. You dig." | |||
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Congratulations Sir excellent animal. Even the rocks don't last forever. | |||
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Congrats Aaron. I'm booked for March of 2013, I hope you guys leave me one. Brad, you a funny dude. LMAO BUTCH C'est Tout Bon (It is all good) | |||
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Can't wait for the report.DRSS Searcy 470 NE | |||
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Super Bull, that! Some one beat me to it but why no VC 577? Oh, and are those Will's shoe's? | |||
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OOOOOOF! 70 lbs, 75 lbs, 80 lbs, 90lbs...... WHO CARES! That is a picture (and set of tusks) that will be in your family for generations. Just plain outstanding. | |||
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Aaron, Wow!!! What a bull!! I leave Sunday for my non-export hunt with Hentie. That photo has me wishing I'd booked a trophy hunt. Great Bull!! Go Duke!! | |||
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Top Class Tusker for a Top Class Guy. Congrats Aaron can'twait fot the story. “The greatest happiness is to scatter your enemy before you, to see his cities reduced to ashes, hearing the old ones wail, to see those who love him shrouded in tears, and to gather into your bosom his wives and daughters, while riding his gelding.” Genghis Khan | |||
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Well done Aaron | |||
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Man, Hentie will make the hunt just as memorable as a trophy bull. Good luck, and you guys send me pics from camp if you can. Thanks, | |||
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I hunt, not to kill, but in order not to have played golf.... DRSS | |||
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Aaron, amazing bull!!!! Phil e-mailed a picture of it too and it is making me figure out what to mortgage or sell to go after a trophy bull ASAP. Where's the 577? I hunt to live and live to hunt! | |||
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but did you pay the trophy fee with travelers checks( then later report them as lost)????? Vote Trump- Putin’s best friend… To quote a former AND CURRENT Trumpiteer - DUMP TRUMP | |||
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Nice Bull Aaron "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." Sir Winston Churchill | |||
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Congratulations Aaron great work ,incredible tusker for these days .Juan www.huntinginargentina.com.ar FULL PROFESSIONAL MEMBER OF IPHA INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL HUNTERS ASOCIATION . DSC PROFESSIONAL MEMBER DRSS--SCI NRA IDPA IPSC-FAT -argentine shooting federation cred number2- | |||
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