Very nice old Buffalo! Looks like all we’re having fun, too. Good luck!

Excellent!

From the sequence of photos it seems like that ancient bull was waiting on the airstrip for you to shoot him!

Fast work drawing first blood in any case.

Congrats to the successful hunters and best of luck to all, including in staying out of the quicksand!

Went for a walk in the forest.

Lots of tracks of buffalo hippo eland wildebeest.

Saw large herd of eland just before sundown running off.

And we have seen no tse tse flies

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Went for a walk in the forest.

Lots of tracks of buffalo hippo eland wildebeest.

Saw large herd of eland just before sundown running off.

And we have seen no tse tse flies

Saeed, looks like a decent amount of elephant dung in the sand river beds?

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Nice bull ! Congratulations.

Sandtrax - USD 60 for a pair ... so much easier and come in various colours

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Excellent start to your trip, Saeed. That buffalo's boss looks awesome.

Yes.

Lots of signs of elephant.

Maktoum has his bow, saw several different animals but hasn’t managed to get close enough.

A bit of wind at night as usual, but dead quiet now at 4.

You guys are not wasting any time. Congrats on the early successes. Good to hear Tony has opened his account also.
Hoping Maktoum gets his chance with his bow this year. Good to see he's sticking with it.

Awesome report Saeed

I do love and miss the sand rivers of the Selous!

Just not getting stuck in them.

Awesome photos, Saeed.

Glad to see everyone made it safely in to camp and the tally started with a very nice buff.
What rifle and cartridge are Tony and Chris using, looks to be a fairly new rig and has a decent sized hole in the barrel?

That’s great seeing what the river looks like from the air, same with camp. Madaba is a very interesting place.

Got back to camp for lunch after shooting another old bull!

We are the ones taking it easy.

The others are VERY busy hunting!

Saw several tracks but the wind was wrong.

Then saw a very old bull walking through the grass and the wind was good.


A short stalk and we were loading him up.

Very easy two bulls so far.

Maktoum shot 2 buffalo.

Tony not back yet

Saeed: I knew you’d come through with your annual “Ticks on Bull Scrotum” picture. Well done!!

Tony and Chris are using an original Ruger in 375 H&H

Tony got a buffalo and a wildebeest

Thanks, Saeed. Great to see the progress of your adventure and love the drone photos!

Superb photos, Saeed.

Please bear in mind that there are 9 of us with cameras.

Some with more than one!

The pictures I post are not any sort of order.

I pick from the literally hundreds I get and post.

Hopefully you will enjoy my selection.

Looks like paradise so far Saeed. Maybe the best yet?

Has to be lions around with that much game!

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Tony got a buffalo and a wildebeest

Excellent. Congrats to Tony. Well done.

Just went through the thread. Amazing photos - great job Tony! You have certainly moved up since we shot that chital deer on Glenda's farm!

Saeed, I’m loving the drone photos, especially of camp. It’s such a different perspective than one gets when on the ground.

The buffalo cow got stuck in the mud and died

Saeed,
Is the Ruger .375 H&H rifle one from your collection ?

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The buffalo cow got stuck in the mud and died

I was wondering about that. Interesting that the carcase is untouched by scavengers.

The Ruger is a camp rifle.

I shot a buffalo

Maktoum shot a hyena

Tony shot a warthog and a kongoni

Great photos.I especially liked the photo of the hippo and its calf.

The are looks a lot drier for this time compared to your previous photo chronicles. There were so many bubbling streams and greenery everywhere .

Lovely pictures Saeed. Thoroughly enjoying your safari vicariously.
Warm regards

Followed a bush pig.

Got charge by a lion and shot it!

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Followed a bush pig.

Got charge by a lion and shot it!

Pity you probably didn't have any opportunity to get drone footage of the charge Saeed . That would have beem impressive on film !
Glad your reflexes were sharp enough to keep you from harm.
Sometime I think you really live on the edge ...

We were driving to a lion bait.

When we got to that valley, a few hundred yards before, we saw a bushpig.

We went after him, he was going towards the lion bait.

About 200 yards from the bait, we saw the lion.

He was looking straight at us.

We stopped.

He started walking towards us, growling, at one stage he was behind a bush.

As soon as he cleared the bush, he took off towards!

I fired a shot at him, that turned his charge, and ran off to the side.

Another shot put him down.

A lesson to be learned here.

To shoot a lion, one has to follow a bush pig!

Incredible report and visuals as always

Amazing. And the person who took the photos of the lion charge must really trust your shooting!