26 April 2002, 22:29
Rusty Gunn
~~~Suluuqjust read the news of a German International Hunting Web page that the South African Police has confiscated a 120 pound elephant tusk with a length of 2.65m in the Kr�ger Park.
I would like to directly link the picture, but it doesn't seem to be possible, so here's the web page:
Since the article is in German, I will try to translate:
"A guy from Mozambique has transported the tusk on his bike (!) through the Kruger NP. Under the heavy weight of the tusk the old Chinese bike broke down somewhere in the Kruger. The Mozambiquian had tried to sell the ivory and now under arrest. He said that he supposedly had found a big dead elephant and had taken the lighter one with him. The heavier one he couldn't carry but so he hid it somewhere. The heaviest elephants in the Kruger are having tusks about 72kg."
Incredible?
Erik
~~~Suluuq2. How much is a dead one tusker elephant with its tusk heavier than 120 lbs as a trophy worth?
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Ray Atkinson
That was the funniest line on the web!!!!!
Ski+3
How do you know the guy on the bike don't
work for Ray??
Pete
Ray's guy would ride an English bike. 
jim dodd
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"if you are to busy to
hunt, you are too busy."
I shoulda known the Al Jolson handy make up kit from Clint Texas, was a rip off at $1.98 and the paint would run if it rained in Kruger. I just hope I can find where I stashed "Sweet Thang" when I made my play to get outa there. I had to stick her up a Rhino ass and forgot to ear mark the bugger, now I gotta figure which Rhino has my gun, before I can get her back, thats the tough part of the whole deal..
It all seemed like a good plan at the time to finally get my elusive 100 pounder.
BTW, I got the bugger in a fair chase hunt, and no high fence, I cut the fence down on that side of Kruger.
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Ray Atkinson
Better yet. How about a new "Survivor" show with contestants roaming southern Africa looking for the missing tusk?
Ski+3
Other one??? Damn, you mean these things come in pairs???
*confused look*
Peter
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Ethiopian Rift Valley Safaris
really, how unusual is a 120 pound tusker?
`120 pound tuskers are as rare as woodpecker teeth...The last one of that size was killed in the 1950's (if my memory is correct) and it was killed by Robert Ritneaur, a PH out of Kenya or by his client, not sure which...Robert now lives in Ft. Worth, Texas and he is a super nice guy and a good friend of mine.
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Ray Atkinson
~~~SuluuqYour memory is pooping out on you again. Don't you recall the 146 pounder Roberto DeCesare shot in our Tepi area in March of 1986? Later that year John Fritze of NY took a 123 pounder. Then there was a 144 that Ray Petty took with Thomas Mattanovich in Gambella that same year. Then in 89 in Godere a German fellow took a 133 with Matanovich. There were somewhere around 20 hundred pounders taken in Ethiopia. About half of them were entered in SCI record book.
Rich Elliott
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Ray Atkinson
Evidently it's at the end of the IVORY rainbow ! 
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Ethiopian Rift Valley Safaris
My client in Dubai wants to know.
How much for the Girl?
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Ray Atkinson
quote:
Originally posted by Atkinson:
personally I'd rather have the Ivory at this point in my life, ain't that the pits?
I believe that Pfizer makes a cure for that now.
oh...
"I believe that Pfizer makes a cure for that now."
You have to be carefull with the cure, sometime things that go up...do in fact have a very hard time coming down.
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[This message has been edited by Roger Rothschild (edited 04-29-2002).]
Ray was shocked as you could imagine to see a frog talking to him. The frog said, "If you will kiss me, I will turn into a gorgeous young woman and we will have incredible sex together."
Ray smiled, exclaimed that it was his lucky day and picked the frog up and put him (or her) in his pocket. The frog yelled, "what do you think you are doing? I told you to kiss me and I would turn into a beautiful woman and we would have wonderful sex."
Ray just smiled and said, "At my age, I would rather have a talking frog."
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Phil- Life Member NRA & SCI
I heard that gal in the photo said she'd rather have the tusk than Ray.
It reminded her of a Kansas farm boy she knew once.
Must be something in the fertilizer that the farmers use there.
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John
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