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Originally posted by Atkinson:
Notice that he is a Tanzania type bull, with the long thin tusks and weight would probably be about 80 lbs is my guess...if that.

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Originally posted by Bwanamich:
That ivory is over 100 lbs no doubt! Various estimates place him between 105 and 118 lbs.

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At a hunting convention in January, Tanzanian professional hunter Rolf Rowher was overheard to predict that Tanzania would produce an elephant with tusks weighing more than 100 pounds per side in the next five to seven years. The latest news shows that his prediction has proved true in less than a year: The Tanzanian Game Department reports that an elephant with tusks of 48 and 47 kilos (106 and 104 pounds) was killed recently in the Mbinga District in southern Tanzania, close to the border of Mozambique.

In the 1970s and early 1980s, Tanzania, and especially the giant Selous Reserve, was well-known for producing several 100-pound tuskers every year. But by the mid-1980s, poaching had greatly reduced elephant numbers. With the help of the hunting community, the Tanzanian government brought poaching under control by the early 1990s, and elephants have been thriving there ever since. Even though hunters take many elephants with impressive ivory every year, jumbos with 100-pound tusks are still extremely rare--in fact, it has been twenty years since a sport hunter has shot a 100-pound elephant in Tanzania.


The recent 100-pounder was shot not by a sport hunter, but by two game scouts. As the story goes, there had been no elephants in the Mbinga District in recent memory, but one day an old elephant bull suddenly appeared in a maize field close to the small village of Ruhehe. The animal was damaging crops, so the locals tried to chase it away. Then, according to the official report on the incident, a youth climbed a small tree and threw a club at the pachyderm as it wandered in the vicinity of the tree, hitting it in the head--an incident that proves that a teenager loaded with testosterone and a five-ton elephant are not a good mix. The now-angry elephant grabbed his antagonist out of the tree with his trunk, smashed him against the tree, and proceeded to stomp on him. Needless to say, the youth was killed.


About four days later, two government game scouts arrived on the scene and managed to dispatch the bull with four shots from a .458 Winchester. The animal had remained in the maize fields, doing considerable damage to the crops.

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Originally posted by gunny:
Out of Africa is putting together a hunt for this bull as we speak.