Well, now that I have a idea how too post pictures, here is a couple of crocodiles taken with clients in Mozambique

The last 2 were 2006. with PH Hancke Hudson

Those are some big flatties. They give me the willies.

People ask me if I have ever been frightened or scared on safari and I tell them, truthfully, only once. I was on Cahorra Bassa in 2001 in a leaky banana boat with a game scout, two trackers, an appy PH and a two friends hunting hippo. Everytime we stopped to observe a pod the boat would sink faster than the blacks could bail. None of them seemed the least bit concerned. While this is going on and the water is going from sole deep, to ankle deep, to over the tops of my safari boots and the amount of freeboard on the sides can no longer be measured in inches; I am visually glued to a collection of large crocodiles sunning themselves on a sand bar/reed island a few yards away while we are in the middle of the lake. The crocs are watching us and licking their chops and I am calculating the odds of being picked out of seven swimmers and wondering if I can swin the 400 yards back to shore with my 375 slung across my back or if I will need to jetison it when we finally sink below the gunwales and take my chances unarmed if I reach dry land. Damn, that was nerve wracking under those conditions knowing those critters were close by!!!

Perry

PWN375,
I have sympathy , similar thing happened this year on a rubber duck and a bow hunter, I really thought it was going to go south quickly,

I hate crocodiles and sharks, can not see them hear them just feel them,

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Originally posted by Kwan:
Well, now that I have a idea how too post pictures, here is a couple of crocodiles taken with clients in Mozambique

I know those guys! Have you made it back home Walter?

Hello Chris

No not yet, I am in Erie,PA. Doing a Outdoor show this weekend, so I can afford that Heym 500

Nice pictures Kwan, can you give us some lengths on those lizards?

Well , I can give you the lengths, but my wife and girlfriend both claims it is the girth that matters

The first one was just touching 14, the second, with the missing piece, 14.5 we estimate that he lost at least 1.5 - 2 feet of tail,
The third one was 13.
the fourth 15.6
the fifth 16.4

In my opinion any croc over 12 is definetely a shooter, over 13 , good, over 14 don't start complaining it is too short, that is direclty connected too Freud and a couple of other guys that theories about man and his own insecure feelings.

Got any photos of the last 2 off the ground? They are quite a bit wider than the shorter ones.

Perry,
what were you worried about?
We coulda tossed Don overboard if things got too dodgy

Yukon, unfortunately not, the PH shot them a ways from camp, and the idiot did not think about winching them into a tree for some good photos, although admittedly I have made that mistake myself,

I think a crocodile hangig just gives you a good idea how big they really are

One thing about crocs, the difference between a 14 and 16 is not just 2 feet, the girth they get as they grow older is awesome

Walter, my old friend.

I hope you have one of those big lizards saved for me in 2010 for that hunt we talked about.

Don't forget to call before you head back across the big blue wet thing.

Cheers

Mac

Mac,

I will feed him good vitamins and really good vegetables daily, brush his teeth and all,

I have your space pencilled in , can't wait till then.

I am in Erie, PA doing a Outdoor Show (Looks more like a fishing show)

Will call you over the weekend

You better get that lil piggybank stuffed good, we have a lot of interesting things in Moz, not the least which is a couple of lion tags,