Guys, took a while for me to get photos, but our client Dick Caruthers shot a great bull in Botswana in late April. The outfitter was Greg Butler, with Gareth Flemmix as the PH. This bull weighed in at 80x76 lbs/side, but here is the kicker: he had about 18" broken off of each tusk! This bull surely would have been over 90lbs/side, possibly even bigger! I saw these tusks when I was in Botswana a few weeks ago and they are huge. Both are 16" around about 2" from where the tusk is broken, so I can imagine there was quite a bit of ivory missing. Anyway, Dick is very proud of this bull, as he should be, so I thought I would post it up on AR. (sorry about the quality of the photos, I scanned the originals that he sent me).

nice bull!! now I know why he was still smiling when we meet on the flight back to the usa

Outstanding ivory!

Wonderful elephant.

http://www.johancalitzsafaris....10/bots_photo_10.htm


Congratulations to the hunter and PH, outstanding!!!! Thank you for posting.

I saw our own Ivan Carter took a nice bull recently. Botswana is really producing some tremendous bulls.

WOW what a great trophy!!!!!!!!!!!!

He's a Beauty!!!

Beautiful Ivory

IMO, totally outranks the long, thin ivory from East Africa. Congratulations.

Wow, that is great ivory with a lot of character, congratulations to everyone involved, well done.

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Originally posted by Ahmed Sultan:
Wow, that is great ivory with a lot of character, congratulations to everyone involved, well done.

I'll pass it along to Dick. He's a great guy and fun to have as a client/friend for sure!

Congratulations to the hunter those tusks are awesome, a real trophy!

That is very nice ivory.

Just imagine if it were not broken off