First Big Five animal

04 June 2011, 22:39

quote:
Originally posted by MARK H. YOUNG:
Elephant (1st hour of first day of first safari)

Mark

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!

05 June 2011, 00:10

MARK H. YOUNG

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

05 June 2011, 00:25

ravenr

quote:
I was so green and that day was so amazing.

yea and the rest of us are "green" too

with envy.....

05 June 2011, 00:49

dwarf416

Elephant
Elephant
Buffalo
Elephant
Buffalo
Forest elephant
Búfalo
Forest elephant
Elephant
Buffalo
Lion
Elephant
Leopard(blind)
Elephant
Leopard(with dogs)

Elephant

05 June 2011, 04:18

gunny

Hey Mark was that Robbie Martin?

05 June 2011, 04:20

gunny

buffalo 8
elephant 8
lion 1
leopard 1

05 June 2011, 07:49

zimbabwe

Leopard
Buffalo
Leopard
Elephant
Elephant

05 June 2011, 08:00

Jungleboy

Wow some of you guys have impressive numbers!

Buffalo
Lion
Elephant
Buffalo
Buffalo
Leopard
Elephant

05 June 2011, 11:58

ozhunter

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.

05 June 2011, 18:33

bwanamrm

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.

05 June 2011, 22:02

tsibindi

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

06 June 2011, 02:04

MARK H. YOUNG

Gunny,

Yep! Day two after he sobered up.

Mark

06 June 2011, 12:10

G D F

1)Buffalo
2)Buffalo
3)Hippo
4)Leopard
5)Croc
6)Buffalo
7)Lion
8Buffalo
9)Buffalo
10)Elephant
11)Buffalo

07 June 2011, 04:51

Aspen Hill Adventures

Elephant cow
Hippo
Leopard

Giraffe with a bow. It's a pachyderm and the tallest on the planet!

07 June 2011, 05:04

TerryR

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.

07 June 2011, 05:15

WVFred

My first and only was buffalo.

11 June 2011, 07:08

gunny

Well Mark
africa has a way of always working out.

11 June 2011, 21:05

Indy

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.

12 June 2011, 06:21

buffybr

quote:
My first and only was buffalo.

Me too

12 June 2011, 10:26

zzz

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.

13 June 2011, 22:00

Tom In Tennessee

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

02 January 2012, 02:13

Hunter white

Cape buffalo with a bow
Leopard with a rifle

02 January 2012, 02:35

SBT

Buffalo
Buffalo
Buffalo
Hippo
Buffalo
Lion
Elephant
Elephant

Two unsuccesful (half ass) attempts at leopard.

02 January 2012, 03:20

safari-lawyer

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.

02 January 2012, 03:29

Aaron Neilson

quote:
Originally posted by safari-lawyer:
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.

Buffalo/Leopard, YA, YA, YA, but the Lion - I am jealous!!!!!! Will, I wish you the best my friend!!!

02 January 2012, 03:31

MJines

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)

02 January 2012, 06:08

Todd Williams

Lion
Buffalo
Green Rhino
Hippo
Elephant Bull
Buffalo
Leopard
Lioness
Buffalo
Buffalo
Elephant Cow
Buffalo
Elephant Cow
Leopard
Buffalo

02 January 2012, 07:35

pagosawingnut

Almost hate to enter my piddly attempts.
buffalo
Buffalo
Elephant
Buffalo

02 January 2012, 07:41

MJines

quote:
Originally posted by pagosawingnut:
Almost hate to enter my piddly attempts.
buffalo
Buffalo
Elephant
Buffalo

That's a helluva lot more hunting than most folks do in a lifetime.

02 January 2012, 08:07

wesley timmerman

buff
buff
elephant
leopard
buff
lion
elephant

02 January 2012, 10:07

pagosawingnut

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.

02 January 2012, 18:15

MJines

Pagosawingnut, I look forward to watching your list grow and reading the hunt reports.

02 January 2012, 20:53

twoseventy

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

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02 January 2012, 21:10

465H&H

buffalo
buffalo
leopard
lots more buff
lots of elephant
buffalo
lots more elephant

465H&H

02 January 2012, 21:39

pagosawingnut

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.

03 January 2012, 02:34

dwarf416

quote:
Originally posted by dwarf416:
Elephant
Elephant
Buffalo
Elephant
Buffalo
Forest elephant
Búfalo
Forest elephant
Elephant
Buffalo
Lion
Elephant
Leopard(blind)
Elephant
Leopard(with dogs)

Elephant

Add two moré elephant this year. I just love hunting elephant