Here's a real nice bull taken this season in Botswana.

http://www.huntingreport.com/t...y_gallery.cfm?id=370

Anybody would be proud of that jumbo.

WOW THAT IS A STUD. ONE VERY LUCKY HUNTER

That's a lot of piano keys

excellent trophy. Glad the chap got him.

Mike Murray of Bottlepan Safaris is a first class PH. Always shoots big stuff. I have never hunted with him and am not booked with him, but have spent a lot of time talking to him. That boy knows how to hunt. Has taken many a fine cat as well.

Because of Johan Calitz (who I have hunted with) and Jeff Rann, Mike is often overshadowed and doesn't get the respect he deserves in Botswana. But Mike runs a darn good operation and is a gold medal PH.

http://www.huntingreport.com/t...y_gallery.cfm?id=365

Congratulations to the hunter on a GREAT trophy.

Dagga Boy,

Do you have any more information on those two huge buffalo from Namibia that are posted in your trophy gallery? Here is the link to the bigger one.

http://www.huntingreport.com/t...y_gallery.cfm?id=366

Here is the other buffalo.

Amazing buffalo !!!

Great Buff!! MMP

Hi Kathi,

About the only other info I have is that the larger one should be the new #1 for Namibia and the smaller one should be the new #7.

They're great bulls any way you cut it. Oh, and the Nyae Nyae Conservancy where they were taken is in far northeastern Namibia and borders Botswana.

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About the only other info I have is that the larger one should be the new #1 for Namibia and the smaller one should be the new #7.

They're great bulls any way you cut it. Oh, and the Nyae Nyae Conservancy where they were taken is in far northeastern Namibia and borders Botswana.

According to the Huntingreport this 2 Buffs are out of a High Fenced breeding project...

Seloushunter

mboga biga bwana is right. I had to go back and double-check, but they did come from a fenced area.
It's called the Buffalo Quarantine Area and is apparently 34 square miles under game proof fence. It was established because Namibia decided a buffalo herd in the area was desirable, but there were concerns of foot and mouth and TB.
The area is under extremely limited access and these bulls were long past breeding age.
The hunter had his own concerns about fair chase, but after talking with hunters who'd been there and seeing the country himself, decided to go for it.

Those buff were killed by Dwight van Brunt and his son in the large fenced area that Dagga Boy has described.

Van Brunt wrote a story about the hunt in the most recent Safari magazine.

I believe that the larger one was over 51 inches, green, and the smaller one was somewhere around 48.

34 square miles is a big area, but I would have to know a lot more about it before I would be comfortable hunting a DG animal like a buff in an enclosed area. Van Brunt says he had reservations at first, but got comfortable.

By the way, that elephant is incredible. Trophy of a lifetime.

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34 square miles is a big area,

Not for Buffalo IMO
Its canned !
Anyway its not my style to hunt any Buffalo behind high fence.

Seloushunter

For an area to qualify as a hunting concession in Tanzania it has to be no less than 800 sq. kms or approx. 535 sq. miles.
Most hunting concessions average approx. 950/1600 sq. kms (635/1060 sq. miles).
A tract of land measuring 34 sq. miles, defined as "a big area" in this part of the world would qualify as a sisal or coffee
plantation!

I stand by Mboga Biga Bwana's comment: It's Canned!!