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Originally posted by the Pom:
I am curious to know just how many buffalo that concession has on quota when there are so many left at the end of the season.

Probably 30 on the regular quota but with additional 5 on request.

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Originally posted by fulvio:

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Originally posted by the Pom:
I am curious to know just how many buffalo that concession has on quota when there are so many left at the end of the season.

Probably 30 on the regular quota but with additional 5 on request.

Alan keeps a specific number for us.

A big bull elephant came to feed in front of our camp while we were having dinner.

Hat's off to Maktoum!

Killing a Cape buffalo with a bow and arrow is not for the faint-hearted!

All the buffalo pictures are of our camp buffalo.

They live close to camp, have protection from hunting.

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Originally posted by fulvio:

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Originally posted by the Pom:
I am curious to know just how many buffalo that concession has on quota when there are so many left at the end of the season.

Probably 30 on the regular quota but with additional 5 on request.

Alan typically does not shoot his entire quota of buffalo. I’m probably mistaken but I think he takes around 26-28 buffalo a year off Madaba, more than half of which are in this 3-week safari every year. I thought the quota was 32 but I’m probably wrong.

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Originally posted by Saeed:
Maktoum shot a reedbuck.

I shot a warthog.

Chased buffalo, eland and zebra.

All got wind assistance!

Tony and Gary had a great day but came empty handed.

I'm hoping hard you get another Eland this year Saeed. I like hunting them so much I often daydream about stalking them.
How often do you tend to see Eland in Madaba ?

INCREDIBLE!!

Absolutely amazing!

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Originally posted by 30.06king:

How often do you tend to see Eland in Madaba ?[/QUOTE]

October is the month that heralds the big bulls joining the herds for a bit of "nookie".

The Selous in general has consistent populations of Livingstone's Eland and also known to produce the best trophies.

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Originally posted by fulvio:

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Originally posted by 30.06king:

How often do you tend to see Eland in Madaba ?

October is the month that heralds the big bulls joining the herds for a bit of "nookie".

The Selous in general has consistent populations of Livingstone's Eland and also known to produce the best trophies.[/QUOTE]

Thankyou Fulvio. I agree, Selous Eland trophies often seem to to be a cut above.

We have been seeing tracks every day, including big bulls.

Followed a bunch yesterday by the wind decided against us.

This morning the decision was to go to the lake and shoot a hippo for croc bait.

We came across two dugga boys and went after them.

A while later they got into a bad thicket, and saw them from a few yards but no way to shoot.

Gave up and continued on.

Saw some vultures and went to investigate.

Lots of lion tracks in the river bed.

Then we found two bush pigs dead, seems from two days ago.

Nothing has touched them, which was a surprise.

No idea how they died.

Carried on and found some zebra and shot one.

Carried on and found a lone wildebeest bull and shot him too.

Decided to get back to camp with our game animals.

Back in camp b y three.

The rest are still out.

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Then we found two bush pigs dead, seems from two days ago.

Nothing has touched them, which was a surprise.

No idea how they died

From the photo I can only surmise they tangled with a Black Mamba which must have struck them simultaneously, hence their folding up close to each other.

We once came across a dead Wildebeest which appeared in good health other than being dead.

One of our savvy trackers did some skinning and was able to locate and expose a discolored area which was attributed to a Black Mamba bite in the neck/shoulder area, exonerating the low striking Puff Adder.

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Originally posted by fulvio:

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Then we found two bush pigs dead, seems from two days ago.

Nothing has touched them, which was a surprise.

No idea how they died

From the photo I can only surmise they tangled with a Black Mamba which must have struck them simultaneously, hence their folding up close to each other.

We once came across a dead Wildebeest which appeared in good health other than being dead.

One of our savvy trackers did some skinning and was able to locate and expose a discolored area which was attributed to a Black Mamba bite in the neck/shoulder area, exonerating the low striking Puff Adder.

This is what we thought.

But, why didn’t anything eat them??

Hyena and lion pride tracks close by.

And the vultures did not touch them either!!??

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Originally posted by Saeed:

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Originally posted by fulvio:

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Then we found two bush pigs dead, seems from two days ago.

Nothing has touched them, which was a surprise.

No idea how they died

From the photo I can only surmise they tangled with a Black Mamba which must have struck them simultaneously, hence their folding up close to each other.

We once came across a dead Wildebeest which appeared in good health other than being dead.

One of our savvy trackers did some skinning and was able to locate and expose a discolored area which was attributed to a Black Mamba bite in the neck/shoulder area, exonerating the low striking Puff Adder.

This is what we thought.

But, why didn’t anything eat them??

Hyena and lion pride tracks close by.

And the vultures did not touch them either!!??

Nothing had touched the Wildbeest mentioned which we found mid-morning and already stiff, indicating it could have happened late evening or night before.

We found him because we spotted Vultures perched in the nearby trees and why was the carcass intact? Could be due to a particular smell from the poisoning effects released from the carcass that acts as a warning?

Damned if I can pin the reason.

I can however confirm that our Indian Crows will NOT eat a rat that has died from rat poison.

Lovely, clean pelt on the Zebra Saeed. Well done.

Wonderful Zebra.

Great hide with clear lines.

I like the wide line down the center of the back.

Great photos as usual, looks like a good population of buffalo, hippo and…tsetse flies!

Greg shot an impala.

Tony shot a zebra.

Maktoum and me came up empty.

We spent all day by the lake trying to get a hippo.

No luck.

We are having another go tomorrow.