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Originally posted by Ahmed Sultan:
Now that is a great bull, congratulations to everyone involved.

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Originally posted by Fallow Buck:
Steve,

Unless i'm mistaken Europeans that want to hunt big importable Bulls, it seems Moz is the place to be.

Apparently some of the buff are not too shoddy either?

do you think USFW will get back into bed with Moz any time soon?


K

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Originally posted by shakari:
I've just received the story from Jason and here it is:

Our client and friend Barry Jacobsen of Bozeman Montana USA was the “lucky” deserving hard core hunter! He used my .375 H+H Winchester post 64 action with 300grain Trophy Bonded Sledgehammer solids (same rifle Barry used on previous elephant and buffalo hunts) I used my .458 Lott with GS Custom 450 grain flat point solids at 2420 ft per second. Just a note, Barry insisted that I back him immediately.

On day 1 we followed 5 bulls for about 3km, but unfortunately as we caught up with them, wind swirled and they unknowingly stampeded straight towards us, with a big 90 to 100 lbs one tuskers in the lead. At 20 yards I shouted hoping to stop or turn them, and then hoping to get a shot, but no sensible shot presented itself. At 3pm that afternoon, it was decided to abandon the tracks as they were moving down wind and I did not want to scare them out of the area. We followed this same group on two more occasions but unfortunately each time they either joined the cows in thick jess or picked up our scent in wind swirls and moved on.

On the morning of day 6 we found two relatively large tracks, but nothing which was indicating an old bull, and there was no reason to follow young or breeding bulls. By approximately 9h30, with the heat rising we cut the track of an old bull heading straight for the river. Even though this track was over 12 hours old, myself and my brilliant tracker Estevao decided it was still worth following as we had a good idea where the bull was heading, and should cut his tracks going away from the river. At about noon, 3km from the river we did cut the track of the bull we wanted but by now he was joined by another old bull and 2 youngsters. I still remember looking back at Barry and saying “we just saved ourselves 6km” … 500 yards later we caught up with them in a dry river bed and immediately the wind swirled and they took off, but not before we saw a good bull. A little bit later we resumed tracking and found them a little more than a kilometre away in a thicket. Playing the wind and the lay of the land we managed to get next to them, on a bit of a rise, but could only see the ivory of two young bulls and another larger bull to the left, but could not see his ivory. Again, the wind started swirling and I knew they would become aware of us. Barry tapped me on the shoulder and mentioned me to look towards my right… there our bull was walking smack into the middle of the younger bulls. The smile on my face must have confirmed everything Barry wanted to know! Reaching the younger bulls, our bull raised his trunk and instantly all of them began moving on a path which would take them 40 yards past us, our bull in the lead by 20 meters. I did see the other old bull and he was both thicker and longer than the one we shot, but was clumped up between the younger bulls. Not wanting to take that risk, I instructed Barry to go for the front bull. (I’m a firm believer in brain shots but sometime common scene and the reality of the situation is the way to go) Barry professionally waited for the bull to clear and took his first shot to the heart and the bull stumbled. I followed suit with another heart shot and he was off … 250m latter we found him lying dead in the open … it was 1:20 in the afternoon. As we walked up to the bull we had tracked and followed for days on end, there was no doubt that although everybody involved worked really hard to get this far, we were fortunate to be able to hunt this majestic beast today … well done to my client Barry and my team, Estevao (lead tracker) Tumo (my right hand man) Jango (water bearer and assistant tracker) , Gervacio (skinner and water bearer) Scott Hall (apprentice, camera man and car fetcher) without all the effort you all put in, none of this would have been possible.

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Originally posted by Fallow Buck:
Steve,

Unless i'm mistaken Europeans that want to hunt big importable Bulls, it seems Moz is the place to be.

Apparently some of the buff are not too shoddy either?
K

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I don't know if anyone else noticed but I reckon that elephant has got the longest legs I've ever seen.....