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Talk about jumping in the deep end of the pool with both feet! I almost had the same kind of start to my safari hunting career, only with a lion. On the very first hour of my first safari, in Deka, we were just out for a drive so that I could get my bearings and Roy Vincent could get to know me, when we came around a corner in the two-track and a magnificent lion stood up right ahead of us. Roy swerved the truck toward him and stopped so that I could have a nice look at him. I, (not having a lion on license as I'd chosen to not extend my hunt out to 28 days from 24 days in order to add lion to everything else I already had on license), was so excited that I grabbed my camera and jumped out, movning in between the truck and lion to get a good photo while Roy was yelling at me to get back in the truck. I never stopped to think for even a second about the implications of being on foot, 25 yards from a mature lion, armed with only a camera. Roy thought I was going to take a picture out of the window of the truck, and here I was wanting to get up close and personal. After the lion trotted off, I then realized how stupid I had been. That was the first animal we saw in Deka, other than a few impala and a duiker, and of course I immediately thought it was a fantastic lion area..... And it was the only lion we saw in 24 days of hunting! | |||
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DLS, Cool story. Sometimes you have to feel like someone is looking out for you. The elephant was not planned but a wounded bull we bumped into on the road just out of camp. It was a communal area so it was the PH's responsibility to take out the bull. It had a huge festering wound on its forehead and was in a foul mood to say the least repeatedly charging the open cruiser causing me untold angst. He finally ran off into the bush and we gave chase. When we caught up to the elephant the PH pulled me into position and told me where to place a bullet. I did as he said and that's how my first day on safari went. Sorry we got a little off topic but I do love that story. I was so green and that day was so amazing. Mark MARK H. YOUNG MARK'S EXCLUSIVE ADVENTURES 7094 Oakleigh Dr. Las Vegas, NV 89110 Office 702-848-1693 Cell, Whats App, Signal 307-250-1156 PREFERRED E-mail markttc@msn.com Website: myexclusiveadventures.com Skype: markhyhunter Check us out on https://www.facebook.com/pages...ures/627027353990716 | |||
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yea and the rest of us are "green" too with envy..... | |||
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Elephant Elephant Buffalo Elephant Buffalo Forest elephant Búfalo Forest elephant Elephant Buffalo Lion Elephant Leopard(blind) Elephant Leopard(with dogs) Elephant diego | |||
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Hey Mark was that Robbie Martin? | |||
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buffalo 8 elephant 8 lion 1 leopard 1 | |||
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Leopard Buffalo Leopard Elephant Elephant SCI Life Member NRA Patron Life Member DRSS | |||
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Wow some of you guys have impressive numbers! Buffalo Lion Elephant Buffalo Buffalo Leopard Elephant | |||
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Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Hippo Lion Buffalo Elephant Buffalo Elephant Elephant Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Elephant Elephant Lion and hopefully another Buff and a Leopard this season. | |||
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Good gosh, I am amazed you guys can chronologically list all your trophies! I don't know if that means I am getting a bit "slow" as I progress... Cape buffalo (10) West African Savanna Buffalo (1) Elephant Bulls (2) Elephant cows (2) Leopard Hippo (actually a Big 7 critter) Croc (ditto) First DG animal was a buffalo like so many on these boards. On the plains of hesitation lie the bleached bones of ten thousand, who on the dawn of victory lay down their weary heads resting, and there resting, died. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch... Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son! - Rudyard Kipling Life grows grim without senseless indulgence. | |||
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First Big Five animal: Leopard (1) 1988. Lion (1) 2003 Hippo (1) 2003 From 1989-2010, the specific years have faded from memory for the buffalo, and elephant. I do remember the last buffalo was taken in 1998, and the last ele was in 2010. Buffalo (7) Elephant (19) No cows | |||
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Gunny, Yep! Day two after he sobered up. Mark MARK H. YOUNG MARK'S EXCLUSIVE ADVENTURES 7094 Oakleigh Dr. Las Vegas, NV 89110 Office 702-848-1693 Cell, Whats App, Signal 307-250-1156 PREFERRED E-mail markttc@msn.com Website: myexclusiveadventures.com Skype: markhyhunter Check us out on https://www.facebook.com/pages...ures/627027353990716 | |||
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1)Buffalo 2)Buffalo 3)Hippo 4)Leopard 5)Croc 6)Buffalo 7)Lion 8Buffalo 9)Buffalo 10)Elephant 11)Buffalo | |||
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Elephant cow Hippo Leopard Giraffe with a bow. It's a pachyderm and the tallest on the planet!  ~Ann   | |||
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1 - Buffalo 2 - Buffalo 3 - God willin come July Buffalo My first Buffalo, a 40 incher in the Okavango Delta, was not only my first African animal, but was taken on the first day of my first African hunt and it was the first thing that I ever shot that did not have feathers. Needless to say, I was sold. | |||
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My first and only was buffalo. DRSS Member | |||
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Well Mark africa has a way of always working out. | |||
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I think that buffalo is almost a certainty to get and also the least expensive. Elephant is more expensive but not too difficult. The cats are very difficult to get. Rhino is simply VERY expensive. Hippo and crocodile are relatively easy. That is, if all you want is a good representative specimen. Indy Life is short. Hunt hard. | |||
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Me too  NRA Endowment Life Member | |||
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WTF Buffalo Hippo Hippo Buffalo Lioness Buffalo Tuskless Tuskless Hippo Leopard Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Leopard Ele Bull Hippo Lion Croc Buffalo Big Ele Bull in Oct? PS-My 18 year old son killed three Buff in 4 days in 2008. Lucky kid. | |||
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Buffalo Missed Leopard Buffalo Lion Leopard Buffalo Buffalo Hippo Croc In May of 2012--Ele For my 70th BD present to my self---Green Rhino in 2013 | |||
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Cape buffalo with a bow Leopard with a rifle | |||
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Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Hippo Buffalo Lion Elephant Elephant Two unsuccesful (half ass) attempts at leopard. "There are worse memorials to a life well-lived than a pair of elephant tusks." Robert Ruark | |||
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Updated . . . Buffalo (CAS) Buffalo (CAS) Leopard Buffalo Leopard Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Crocodile Elephant Leopard Hippo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo And five months to lion, leopard, and buff. Will J. Parks, III | |||
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Buffalo/Leopard, YA, YA, YA, but the Lion - I am jealous!!!!!! Will, I wish you the best my friend!!! | |||
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First was a buffalo, actually first three were buffalo. Buffalo (8) Croc (1) Elephant Bull (3) Elephant Cow (9) Hippo (2) Leopard (1) Lioness (1) Mike | |||
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Lion Buffalo Green Rhino Hippo Elephant Bull Buffalo Leopard Lioness Buffalo Buffalo Elephant Cow Buffalo Elephant Cow Leopard Buffalo | |||
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Almost hate to enter my piddly attempts. buffalo Buffalo Elephant Buffalo | |||
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That's a helluva lot more hunting than most folks do in a lifetime. Mike | |||
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buff buff elephant leopard buff lion elephant | |||
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MJ I have just started, I hope. Hope to do a Buffalo, Sable next year and maybe Buffalo, Leopard the following year. No more elephants for me, but if I can afford it, I will do a buffalo every year. | |||
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Pagosawingnut, I look forward to watching your list grow and reading the hunt reports. Mike | |||
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Buffalo leopard lion lion elephant buffalo tuskless will be next as soon as the hunting fund allows(Obama is history) ...I say that hunters go into Paradise when they die, and live in this world more joyfully than any other men. -Edward, duke of York ". . . when a man has shot an elephant his life is full." ~John Alfred Jordan "The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." Cicero - 55 BC "The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." - Ayn Rand Cogito ergo venor- KPete “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.” ― Adam Smith - “Wealth of Nations” | |||
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buffalo buffalo leopard lots more buff lots of elephant buffalo lots more elephant 465H&H | |||
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MJ Hopefully it will. I just bought a new to me Searcy double in .470 NE and it needs to be used. Might try it on bear and elk first but watch out next year. | |||
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Add two moré elephant this year. I just love hunting elephant diego | |||
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Buffalo Just getting started. I may never catch up with some of you, but I'll enjoy the chase. GUNS HAVE ONLY 2 ENEMIES-RUST & POLITICIANS LORD, let my bullets go where my crosshairs show. Not all who wander are lost. NEVER TRUST A FART!!! Cecil Leonard | |||
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Buffalo Elephant Elephant switch continents buffalo 2 through 4 switch continents buffalo #5 through 20 | |||
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