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100 pounds and more…   It was my great pleasure to have five days roaming at will on the famed Erindi Game Reserve in Namibia last week. The owner, Paul Joubert, repeatedly admonishing me that I had not seen the “big one” yet. He was correct and prophetic. I never did see the “big one”, but man did I see plenty of really good ones, 60 pounds per side and more, with one being around 120 pounds per side. A truly great jumbo, of the kind that are rarer than unicorns in todays world.     Of note these big boys carry massive ivory. 18” circumference at the lip at a minimum. Several are over 20” for reference. Their ivory is also very brittle.  I thought you guys might enjoy the photos… also I couldn’t help posting the young jumbo kicking the croc out of the mud hole!  The biggest jumbo pictured is around 48 -50 years of age and stands 3.8 meters high at the shoulder, as of 2013. He weighed eight and a half tons!! These jumbo were captured and relocated from Khaudum Park on the border with Botswana in 2013. The full story will be put up on Ngruma.com later, describing the entire experience. Enjoy!! | ||
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Thanks for the awesome pics of the else- I very MUCH appreciate them! Can you send some more of the one you think is over 100lbs? | |||
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Erindi is a wonderful place. Wish I would of made it there before they stopped hunting. | |||
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Thanks for posting Ngruma, what dreams are made of! Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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I don't see anything close to over 60 " 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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Beautiful pictures, thanks for sharing. I would be pretty sure those bulls are over 60, khaudum bulls are very very big bodied and hold a lot of tusk inside their skull which is also big, plus they have thick ivory which is not long but very heavy. | |||
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. Great pics. Thanks for posting ! I see two else in the 5th pic right ? . "Up the ladders and down the snakes!" | |||
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Boarkiller I laughed until my sides ached, really good comment!! Charlie64 you are right - 2 bulls, sharp eyes! Thanks for all the comments guys... Really was a privilege to see such old, big bulls up close and personal. IT is a rare experience today... How I envied the old ivory hunters from years ago and what they must have seen in their lifetimes. I met a man in 1999 named Tony Mialetto (sp?) in South Africa. He was an ivory hunter in Mozambique of some note. He led us into his dining room which doubled as his storage room. There he had stacked over six foot high and twenty feet long pairs of tusks from the mid 1950" thru 1964. There was not a pair under 60 lbs a side. A reflection of a lifetime of challenges and rewards!! | |||
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I knew you would Figured, I'll give you something to laugh about Great pics and awesome ivory and the Bulls are gigantic " 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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