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ManuelM
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For you gentleman who have been fortunate enough to shoot 1 or more elephants what was the weight of your best set of tusks and where was it taken?


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Hi Manuel,

I have hunted quite a few Elephant with the heaviest going 91lb and 68lb, the worn tusk is full of character,

area was the Greater Kruger

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McKay
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66 x 62 in Dande East.


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Dave Fulson
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53x51 Sape, Zim Chifuti Safaris.


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62 x 58 Sapi 2010, Zim Mokore Safaris


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AfricanHunter
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94 & 94, South Sudan, 1/2 a lifetime ago
 
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78 & 74 MK1 Selous, Pierre van Tonder Safaris


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94 & 94, South Sudan, 1/2 a lifetime ago


This deserves it's own thread with pictures and a story, not just for the size but also for the area.


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50 & 52.5. Russ Broom safaris.

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94 & 94, South Sudan, 1/2 a lifetime ago


This deserves it's own thread with pictures and a story, not just for the size but also for the area.



+1 Hunted with Angelo Dacey by chance?
 
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I'm betting I was with Jose Simoes' company.


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94 & 94, South Sudan, 1/2 a lifetime ago


This deserves it's own thread with pictures and a story, not just for the size but also for the area.


+1, must have been a proper adventure!!
 
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I hunted with John Abraham out of Johan Calitz's Ivory Camp. My elephant was 78 X 77. What a thrill! MMP
 
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84/80 , 50/50 Zim outside Gonarezhou NP,
SA - Denstaadt, outside Mapungubwe NP 40/38
I could do it rest of my life...


" Until the day breaks and the nights shadows flee away " Big ivory for my pillow and 2.5% of Neanderthal DNA flowing thru my veins.
When I'm ready to go, pack a bag of gunpowder up my ass and strike a fire to my pecker, until I squeal like a boar.
Yours truly , Milan The Boarkiller - World according to Milan
PS I have big boar on my floor...but it ain't dead, just scared to move...

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AfricanHunter
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94 & 94, South Sudan, 1/2 a lifetime ago


This deserves it's own thread with pictures and a story, not just for the size but also for the area.



+1 Hunted with Angelo Dacey by chance?


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gunny
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40/40 Binga Russ Broom
53/54 Dande East CMS
 
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by StormsGSP:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by AfricanHunter:
94 & 94, South Sudan, 1/2 a lifetime ago


This deserves it's own thread with pictures and a story, not just for the size but also for the area.


Didn't Nassos Roussos hunt Sudan back in the day ?
I remember an American hunter back in the early 90's telling me he hunted Elephant with Nassos back in the old days just before it closed.
Sorry off topic there...


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65 and 65 R2 Selous PVT.

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43/41 from Tuli area of Zim in Oct. 2008. Haven't received the weights from my Zim Dec. 2013 bull yet.
 
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59/53 Sengwe 1 Zim 2012--second bull I saw and was next to last day of hunt.

And yeah, I am very glad I got my real ivory instead of replicas.


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Rich Elliott
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Didn't Nassos Roussos hunt Sudan back in the day ?I remember an American hunter back in the early 90's telling me he hunted Elephant with Nassos back in the old days just before it closed

No. Nassos hunted a few in Kulo Kunta and Gambella. Then 2 years in Tepi. Then until 1992 in Gura Farda ...all in SW Ethiopia.


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43 and 45 from a bull that I killed in the Greater Kruger a number of years ago.
 
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77x68 Mahenye near Gonarezhou


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68 & 60 / Matetsi - Zim
 
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415sbaird
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My only pair - 44x42 - Dande North - exactly this time last year.

Holding my breath until they arrive here from Zim!


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57x55 Zim 2008
92x91 Zim 2013


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55# 44# caprive area 2011


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57 x 60 Binga with Russ Broom Safaris


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Just FYI: there are a lot of guys posting big ivory but not too many posting average ivory.

Lots of 30 pound bulls are taken.


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Selby's flat bed truck delayed the safari, Horn of the Hunter would have read like an indictment of Selby. But Ruark rolled with the punches, poured some gin, and enjoyed the adventure.

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crbutler
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Not exactly sure about exact weight as they are still waiting to come back from Zim, but 27kg a side per the Zim government.
 
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REMN JR
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59 1/2 lbs. (7'4") x 58 1/2 Lbs. (7'2") in Masailand, Tanzania, 2009

1/2 lb. short of a much higher trophy fee


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ManuelM
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Amazing, you gentleman have shot some fantastic specimens, thanks for the response!


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90x87 ng41 botswana 2013
85 inches long by 19.5" at the lip. cobus calitz was the ph.
 
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Aaron Neilson
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82 x 84 - Malapati in September 2011


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20.20kg and 18.0kg. Shot in the Matetsi area of Zimbabwe in July 2004 - my final safari.


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By God, some nice bones gentlemen
More please


" Until the day breaks and the nights shadows flee away " Big ivory for my pillow and 2.5% of Neanderthal DNA flowing thru my veins.
When I'm ready to go, pack a bag of gunpowder up my ass and strike a fire to my pecker, until I squeal like a boar.
Yours truly , Milan The Boarkiller - World according to Milan
PS I have big boar on my floor...but it ain't dead, just scared to move...

Man should be happy and in good humor until the day he dies...
Only fools hope to live forever
“ Hávamál”
 
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45x46 2001Hwange
50x49 2002 dete
55x54 2005 matinwe (plumbtree)
30x29 2006 cameroon Forest ele Salapumbe
33x34 20007 Cameroon forest els Libongo
40x42 2007 Hwange (fuckup) hwange
91x67 2009 tsholotjo (to solve the fuckup)
52x53 2011 plumbtree
65x63 2011 tsholotjo
55x56 2013 tsholotjo
2014 ??????


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