The Accurate Reloading Forums
Martin Pieters Safari's Big Elephant
16 November 2012, 08:22
MikeBurkeMartin Pieters Safari's Big Elephant
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.
16 November 2012, 08:28
chuck375Wow!
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"
16 November 2012, 08:39
StealthOutstanding!!
"Personal is not the same as important", Corporal Carrot, Men at Arms
16 November 2012, 08:45
FjoldMan, 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
16 November 2012, 09:06
bwana cecilThat'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
16 November 2012, 09:35
zhabawell done Mart super super bull
16 November 2012, 11:50
tendramsThat's quite a lot of potential piano keys in that pic!
16 November 2012, 12:34
ivan carterthats a fantastic ele , with those measurements should go over 80 - well done guys
16 November 2012, 12:47
Matt GrahamCongratulations to all involved!!!
Aren't you meant to be 'finding yourself' on a mountaintop Ivan??
16 November 2012, 16:51
bwanajayCheers Mart, Awesome!!!
16 November 2012, 20:28
pagosawingnutThose quality bulls are getting harder to find. Congratulations.
16 November 2012, 21:07
bwanamrmHoly 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.
16 November 2012, 21:23
Use Enough GunOutstanding! Thanks Ivan, for the educated estimate. That helps all of us to put it in better perspective!
18 November 2012, 00:15
Safari2Those look like telephone poles coming out of that elephants head!
18 November 2012, 00:36
MARK H. YOUNGMike,
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 18 November 2012, 01:00
ChrisTroskieSuper!
18 November 2012, 03:14
D. NelsonWell done!!!
D. Nelson
18 November 2012, 09:52
Bwanamichamazing.
"...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
18 November 2012, 15:41
OrvarAwesome bull - congratulations!
18 November 2012, 21:50
Michael RobinsonMan, oh man. What a bull!
Mike
Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer.
18 November 2012, 23:24
Jonathan HulmeWell done to Aaron and Martin a bull of a lifetime.
19 November 2012, 03:03
MJinesIncredible elephant. Congrats to the team.
Mike
19 November 2012, 16:52
R.JollyNow that's a proper elephant !!!
Well done.
19 November 2012, 17:33
Rich SchultzAmazing bull,congrats.....
19 November 2012, 17:44
Neil-PHI 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.
20 November 2012, 19:12
Safaris Botswana BoundHey Martin , excellent bull !!!
Best guestimate = 80x81.5 pounds.
Symetric long tusks - could not be better.
regards
Graeme
20 November 2012, 20:33
MuletrainVery nice! Congratulations!
Elephant Hunter,
Double Rifle Shooter Society,
NRA Lifetime Member,
Ten Safaris, in RSA, Namibia, Zimbabwe
20 November 2012, 23:40
elsTHE 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.