People , here are a few season highlights – each one is simply the trophy photo at the end of a great hunt - not enough hours in the day to tell all the stories but will get to that someday - i am just priveledged to have been part of these great hunts

A Zambezi valley waterbuck to start off with with colin douthit –



A nice croc – he went 13’8 and was missing about ten inches of tail ! taken by Evan Douthit .


A nice valley bull taken with a perfect frontal brain at last light – that’s a whole story I need to tell you guys one day !!!


Jim hall with two nice bulls –


My tracker bashop with a nice long tusked bull


Mark carmain with a couple of very nice early season bulls




Tom peden and his wife Paula


Some good buffalo from the season –







AND FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO COMPLAIN ABOUT RECOVERING A WHITETAIL OR ANTELOPE !!!!!!!

Thank you for sharing these great photos Ivan, some very nice times were had by all I see, congratulations my friend.

Ivan, beautiful pics! I really like the pachyderm barge!


maddog

Thanks Ivan
very nice animals

thanks Ivan

Thank you, Ivan.

Thank you. Great pictures. What are the marks on the back of the elephant on the last picture?

Good Hunting CF

Thanks for sharing Ivan-can't wait for you to post some of the stories behind the hunts !

Thanks, looks like a great season. Do you know how its going for Jonny at Mahenye this year ?

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What are the marks on the back of the elephant on the last picture?

its where we cut a slit to pull him up on there - those two tags are rolls of skin that i hooked a nylon loop into

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Do you know how its going for Jonny at Mahenye this year ?

no but i will find out and let you know , i do know that he didnt do any early hunts.

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Do you know how its going for Jonny at Mahenye this year ?

no but i will find out and let you know , i do know that he didnt do any early hunts.

Thierry guided a hunter to a 50 +/- bull back in May or June. I believe Thierry is there now for two (?) elephant hunts. Larry will be there with Collin VL in October.

Jonny is starting elephant hunting in mahenye is a few weeks time. Glad to see he took my advice about hunting late season I'm confident we will see some heavy ivory coming out of mahenye the next few months. Looks like you have had some great hunting Ivan, well done.

Nice pics, thanks for sharing.

Awesome photos, Ivan!

Really cool stuff there!

Chris

Thanks Ivan, great trophies some very nice ivory and some buff with some serious bosses.

Thanks for the pics! Cheers!

Beautiful pics!

Thanks for sharing

Torbjørn

Good to see Jim Hall still at it... he still using his "favorite" Remington .416?

Simply outstanding! Thanks Ivan!

Ivan: You always provide us with some great photos and stories!

Ivan,
Great photos, I hope you will add a story or two from these memorable hunts.

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Another mediocre season, eh? Pity. You really need to work on putting in some real effort for your sports, mate. Those poor lads look pretty glum in the pics.

Simply awesome, brother.

BTW, call me crazy, but if I were to hazard a wild guess, is the left tusk above sporting a bush style patch-up job, with mud as a plaster of sorts? To this untrained eye, it looks like it. As one who has suffered some pretty serious dental reconstruction, I must say that I wish some of my temporary fixes looked that good...

That gash in the ear, too? Hmm. Deflected bullet after clipping tusk, maybe?

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BTW, call me crazy, but if I were to hazard a wild guess, is the left tusk above sporting a bush style patch-up job, with mud as a plaster of sorts? To this untrained eye, it looks like it. As one who has suffered some pretty serious dental reconstruction, I must say that I wish some of my temporary fixes looked that good... Smiler

I was wondering the same thing.

Ivan, in regards to the hunter of that elephant, it looks like he has one of those illuminated red-dot pseudo-iron sight things instead of the the traditional iron sight. Any chance you can rate it's effectiveness in the field compared to a scope and iron sights. Boddington mentions a scope is helpful in buffalo hunting, so I'm interested to hear how this compares.

Thanks.

why loading the whole ele on a trailer??

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van, in regards to the hunter of that elephant, it looks like he has one of those illuminated red-dot pseudo-iron sight things instead of the the traditional iron sight. Any chance you can rate it's effectiveness in the field compared to a scope and iron sights.

sevens ,
its a trijicon rmr , as far as compared to scope ort iron sights -

it doesnt give you the "tunnell vision a scope does but then it also does not give a very fine point of aim , its designed to be fast and used close - the dot is 6 MOA (i think if memory serves )

its a lot better than iron sights as it certainly enables one to reach out a lot further than with iron sights and for anyone not used to iron sights this is the way forward -

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why loading the whole ele on a trailer??

that way the whole elephant can go to the villages instead of having lots and lots of people come to cut the animal - in a lot of areas the disturbance from that can result in a complete stop in elephant movement for several weeks , this way the disturbance is minimal -

Looks like a pretty nice season, thanks for sharing Ivan.

Great photos.

Thanks for taking the time to share them.


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