This year I had booked a hunt in Hammond with CM Safaris. As everyone here is aware things turned upside down in tha Save this year, so the Hammond would not work. Buzz, and Milea had an alternate plan however. We went up to the Dande instead. I wanted to hunt Buffalo and with Blake Wilhelmi as my PH I had a great hunt. We were in Buff every day, and turned down bulls every day till the 8th day when I shot a great old Dagga Boy. Of my 12 trips to Africa this one of my best hunts, and definatly my best buffalo hunt. Thanks to Blake, Buzz, and Miles.

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sounds like their Plan B worked out well for you.
Now we need a full report with lotsa photos.

Glad to hear that you still had a successful safari.

Venda axe, when you book with good people, you will always have a good hunt! Buzz and company take care of buisness!
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Any word on Hammond for 13'?

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Safari2
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Posted 04 October 2012 23:39Hide Post
Any word on Hammond for 13'?
Posts: 143 | Location: St. Charles, MO | Registered: 02 August 2012

Heck, it's Zimbabwe, who knows about tomorrow let alone next year.
By the way, I also have a safari booked for 2013 in the Save, all we can do is wait & see.

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Originally posted by bwana cecil:

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Safari2
one of us
Posted 04 October 2012 23:39Hide Post
Any word on Hammond for 13'?
Posts: 143 | Location: St. Charles, MO | Registered: 02 August 2012

Heck, it's Zimbabwe, who knows about tomorrow let alone next year.
By the way, I also have a safari booked for 2013 in the Save, all we can do is wait & see.

True..Larry Shores, who is in Sango right now, thought things would get worked out possibly even later this year ...but time is getting short for 2012.

Good to see the Zim boys can make a plan.

Bob

Only a pleasure! Certainly Paul and I could not have asked for a nicer hunting companion to share camp with!

Well done also on a truly magnificent old dugga Boy! We have just aged him and in the last 5 years he is the second oldest bull coming in at 16 years old- I dont think in the wild they get much older then that!!!!!!Hopefully see you at the shows! Cheers buzz

How do you age them Buzz??

Hi Matt

Basically we extract and measure both left and right first mandibular molar(first permanent molar) (m1). We measure the crown height with digital engineering calipers to the nearest 0.01mm. So each molar will have 4 measurements (total 8 measurements for the two teeth). The corresponding ages were then calculated using the regression equation / graph established by Taylor (1988).

We have been doing that for the last few years and it is great to show us a trend on whether we are shooting better buff ( in my eyes better means older as I have very little interest in inches) and also which Phs are consistently shooting acceptable bulls!! Cheers Buzz

Damn man - that sounds great!!! I wonder if I could adapt that for our buff as it sounds like they have a very similar max age.

More research!!!

Thanks

Matt

More then likely- will happily send you out a detailed booklet with all info on it. Infact we have some heavy drinking swearing fun to be with Aussies arriving any day now!!!! Will happily send it back with them if you interested! Cheers Buzz

Buzz...are you good to go at Hammond? Seems like several Save areas have opened up recently if you look thru the recent posts under the lengthy Save thread.

Safari 2

We are good to go with the Shenks who own Hammond BUT to date that means very little and They/We do not have a hunt permit for the remainder of this year yet and nothing for next year- negotiations are under way - however I have to say, at the risk of been called a pessimist- that I feel that we are far from a complete solution in the Save. I hope I am proved wrong!

Hey Buzz

I would appreciate that greatly - if you could give it to those Aussies and have them post it to me on their return!!

PO Box 1380 Armidale NSW 2350.

Cheers mate - many thanks
Matt