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Tsholotsho bull taken by Aaron Baker with PH Martin Pieters of Martin Pieters Safaris 20" circumference at the lip 49" out the lip Official weights to follow.  | ||
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Wow! Regards, Chuck "There's a saying in prize fighting, everyone's got a plan until they get hit" Michael Douglas "The Ghost And The Darkness" | |||
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Outstanding!! "Personal is not the same as important", Corporal Carrot, Men at Arms | |||
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Man, that's a great bull! I know that Martin had high hopes for the quality of elephants on Tsholotsho, it looks like he's not going to be disappointed. Frank "I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money." - Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953 NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite | |||
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That's a serious set of ivory. LORD, let my bullets go where my crosshairs show. Not all who wander are lost. NEVER TRUST A FART!!! Cecil Leonard | |||
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well done Mart super super bull  | |||
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That's quite a lot of potential piano keys in that pic! | |||
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thats a fantastic ele , with those measurements should go over 80 - well done guys "The greatest threat to our wildlife is the thought that someone else will save it” www.facebook.com/ivancartersafrica www.ivancarterwca.org www.ivancarter.com ivan@ivancarter.com | |||
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Congratulations to all involved!!! Aren't you meant to be 'finding yourself' on a mountaintop Ivan?? A day spent in the bush is a day added to your life Hunt Australia - Website Hunt Australia - Facebook Hunt Australia - TV | |||
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Cheers Mart, Awesome!!! | |||
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Those quality bulls are getting harder to find. Congratulations. | |||
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Holy cow! Tremendous elephant bull On the plains of hesitation lie the bleached bones of ten thousand, who on the dawn of victory lay down their weary heads resting, and there resting, died. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch... Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son! - Rudyard Kipling Life grows grim without senseless indulgence. | |||
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Outstanding! Thanks Ivan, for the educated estimate. That helps all of us to put it in better perspective!  | |||
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Those look like telephone poles coming out of that elephants head! | |||
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Mike, Yikes! Big congrats to Aaron and Martin. Mark MARK H. YOUNG MARK'S EXCLUSIVE ADVENTURES 7094 Oakleigh Dr. Las Vegas, NV 89110 Office 702-848-1693 Cell, Whats App, Signal 307-250-1156 PREFERRED E-mail markttc@msn.com Website: myexclusiveadventures.com Skype: markhyhunter Check us out on https://www.facebook.com/pages...ures/627027353990716 | |||
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Super! Regards, Chris Troskie Tel. +27 82 859-0771 email. chris@ct-safaris.com Sabrisa Ranch Ellisras RSA www.ct-safaris.com https://youtu.be/4usXceRdkH4 | |||
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Well done!!!  D. Nelson | |||
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amazing. "...Them, they were Giants!" J.A. Hunter describing the early explorers and settlers of East Africa hunting is not about the killing but about the chase of the hunt.... Ortega Y Gasset | |||
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Awesome bull - congratulations! | |||
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Man, oh man. What a bull! Mike Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer. | |||
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Well done to Aaron and Martin a bull of a lifetime. | |||
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Incredible elephant. Congrats to the team. Mike | |||
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Now that's a proper elephant !!! Well done. | |||
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Amazing bull,congrats..... | |||
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I remember back in 1991, hunting the same Tsholotsho area, we saw a bull some 150 yards or so inside the park, with the most unbelievably large set of tusks I have ever been fortunate enough to see. In the early years of my PH career, and having never witnessed something of this magnitude, I was dumbfounded as to its possible weight, but as clear as the picture is in my mind, and with a few more decades experience under the belt, I can confidently say it was over 120lbs a side. I often think of what became of him. The client and I actually drove into the park a few days after the sighting, to the parks camp at (excuse the spelling - Josavanini) to enquire about this bull. The scouts knew the elephant, but said he moved in a large area and was not a permanent sighting. I wouldn't be out of line in my assumptions that his magnificent ivory now adorns some Government officials private residence !! Congrats on your bull, Ivan's guesstimate at your measurements are correct. | |||
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Hey Martin , excellent bull !!! Best guestimate = 80x81.5 pounds. Symetric long tusks - could not be better. regards Graeme | |||
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Very nice! Congratulations! Elephant Hunter, Double Rifle Shooter Society, NRA Lifetime Member, Ten Safaris, in RSA, Namibia, Zimbabwe | |||
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THE STUFF OF DREAMS If you own a gun and you are not a member of the NRA and other pro 2nd amendment organizations then YOU are part of the problem. | |||
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