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Are Elepants big or what, just amazing animals !!

Peter
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Our PH Dene Bird with girlfriend Joanne & local guide helper -- Limpopo Province Ranch SA


Dene with Elephant owner whom offers the Ele rides



Great view from up there (-:

Elephants are big. They scare the poop out of me.

Yet when I see a picture of one (or go to the zoo, I,due to some character flaw, only try to figure the perfect brain shot.

I'm hopeless. Maybe a P.A.C. elephant or two in March will quench my thirst. We'll see. Or maybe just exacerbate it... Hell, I know it will. I'm hooked. Damn, I like hunting the big buggars!

There is nothing in the world as satisfying as the THUMP of a .470 against your shoulder, it doing just what it was designed to do a hundred years ago... Yet...

I did notice a good looking woman in the pictures.. and maybe I've got my priorities a little amok?

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Originally posted by JudgeG:
Elephants are big. I,however, due to some character flaw, only look at your pictures posted.. and try to figure the perfect brain shot.

I'm hopeless. Maybe a P.A.C. elephant or two in March will quench my thirst. Or maybe just exacerbate it... Damn, I like hunting the big buggars!

Hi Judge //

Firstly my thoughts are with all your USA brothers & sisters in the Gulf region that was devastated, and to hell with the arm-chair critics whom ALWAYS seem to know best .. some bone heads of this world and those looking for political capitol dont realise that the area effected is almost the size of Geat Britian // enough on that

RIP Supreme court Judge [ William H. Rehnquist ]

Huntin PAC in March ....

Do you have Anything lined up or in pipeline, or just dreaming at this point, where or which country do you have a preferance or is that irrelevant

Hope you the family and all others are keeping well

Peter

Peter:

I do have a P.A.C. hunt scheduled (and a small deposit paid) for early March in Zimbabwe with HHK. Graham Hingston has been mighty good to me in the past. He even moved me from one camp last year (gratuitously) to make sure I got an elephant. Brent Hein, the P.H. I had will be my foil... I need one.. again.

I seem to attract folks who want to go with me. This trip, a really great fellow who goes fly fishing with me in Manitoba wants to go and bring his girlfriend with him. I'm not sure they understand the treck it takes to follow a rouge elephant out of some village maize field to his/her noon-time respite, but I've told them and they still want to go. I'm trying to arrange some tiger fishing on Lake Kariba, too.

I just can't imagine a world without safari.. but with the crap that is just beginning to fester in Namibia, I hope those who have eyes in the front of their heads go... just borrow the money and go... and I can't think of a better place for their first, of many, of course, safaris than that of yours and your brother's.. especially if that good looking woman in the elephant pictures is there...

The thump of a .470 doing what it was designed to do is the best sensation in the world... but is the lady married?... I may change my mind.

If any reader hasn't chucked his supper so far, may I again make the suggestion... Just go.. and book through good guys like Peter, Ray (my brother-from-a-different-mother) Atkinson, Ann of AspinHill (a hell of a hunter of the distaff side), Keith Atchenson (his daddy is a legend), Shakari (the slayer of lions in the dining room.. what until you hear that story), Gayanna (a writer, par excellance) and others who post here.. We're blessed with guys you can trust to get you to even to B.F places like Ethiopia (Elliot) and Cameroon (if you are near-sighted figure that out). John LaSala (who doesn't post here, but should.. he's Kudude's neighboor and friend, I think???) has done me well, too, besides commercially loading all types of exotic safari ammo (where else do you find .475 Eley in .483 diameter?.

Read, read, read and use the search functions. Cull the B.S. You'll never be sorry. The wealth of information here is priceless. Just yesterday I got a call from a fellow who had problems with some gun permits. I'd never seen the fellow, but I think we got it fixed. That is what AR is about.

References of those who just returned are priceless. And guys like Terry Carr will get you ready with the stuff you need to take.

Just try it. You'll leave me stuff in your will. Money is best, btw, but I'll take W-R, H&H, Jeffery and Boswell rifles and won't even complain if they aren't doubles.

In 1991 I was driving a small Japanese station wagon and pulled into the parking lot of the Hwange Safari Lodge. Fifteen feet in front of me was a bull elephant facing the other direction. I had to wait in line until he decided where he was going to go. I was awstruck by his size. It seems that there is no word in the english language that adequately describes the size of a really big bull elephant. Big, huge, large, etc. just doesn't do them justice. Maybe mammoth comes closest. Any suggestions out there?

I hope JudgeG leaves a few PAC bulls next year as I am scheduled in behind him for a couple of bulls and a cow. Good Luck JudgeG. Hope wqe overlap a day so we can share a bttle of good stuff together. I'll bring a bottle of Jack D's finest!

465H&H

I'll arrive in Harare late the evening of the 27th of Feb and fly back out on the morning of the 10th of March. I hope to do some fishing the last few days of safari on Lake Kariba.

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It seems that there is no word in the english language that adequately describes the size of a really big bull elephant. Big, huge, large, etc. just doesn't do them justice. Maybe mammoth comes closest. Any suggestions out there?465H&H

Gargantuan. Enormous. Gigantic. Immense.

"Fooking size of them? Well, it's leg alone is taller than and about twice the weight of the average man. That give you an idea?"

Yebo n'cosi. Dem be big 'uns.

Thanks for the photos, it really helps to put them in size perspective vs. a man.

Another view. Just for size comparison of course.

(Photo from "An African Journal" by Horst Klemm")