Ivory weight

08 April 2014, 09:51

ManuelM

Ivory weight

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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08 April 2014, 10:33

jkhunter

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

reg

JK

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08 April 2014, 20:38

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.

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08 April 2014, 21:11

tendrams

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.

+1 Hunted with Angelo Dacey by chance?

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09 April 2014, 00:38

Svinejakt

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.

+1, must have been a proper adventure!!

09 April 2014, 01:57

mufasa

I hunted with John Abraham out of Johan Calitz's Ivory Camp. My elephant was 78 X 77. What a thrill! MMP

09 April 2014, 02:05

boarkiller

84/80 , 50/50 Zim outside Gonarezhou NP,
SA - Denstaadt, outside Mapungubwe NP 40/38
I could do it rest of my life...

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09 April 2014, 02:24

AfricanHunter

quote:
Originally posted by tendrams:
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.

+1 Hunted with Angelo Dacey by chance?

09 April 2014, 13:14

Jan Dumon

quote:
Originally posted by AfricanHunter:
quote:
Originally posted by tendrams:
[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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10 April 2014, 03:15

Todd Williams

43/41 from Tuli area of Zim in Oct. 2008. Haven't received the weights from my Zim Dec. 2013 bull yet.

10 April 2014, 03:26

Sean Russell

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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10 April 2014, 19:56

Rich Elliott

quote:
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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11 April 2014, 10:59

415sbaird

My only pair - 44x42 - Dande North - exactly this time last year.

Holding my breath until they arrive here from Zim!

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15 April 2014, 10:39

JBrown

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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15 April 2014, 10:49

crbutler

Not exactly sure about exact weight as they are still waiting to come back from Zim, but 27kg a side per the Zim government.

17 April 2014, 04:11

REMN JR

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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03 May 2014, 16:40

dwarf416

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 ??????