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I drove back from LAX with 65x57 pounds of creamy goodness dragging down my tailgate. Not too bad, considering the hunt was 5 months ago. Here is how I last remember them  My ele was shot with Acacia Safaris, Sengwe 2 area of Zimbabwe, this past March. Again, kudos to Bruce Rensburg for running a great camp. Special thanks to PH Kobus Van Der Merve for leading the successful hunt, huge thanks to Taxidermy Enterprises of Bulawayo for staying on top of the paperwork AND packing this precious cargo properly. And again, a very big thank you to Maria Felix, custom broker extraordinaire for orchestrating a seamless shipment. And now for next year.... "You only gotta do one thing well to make it in this world" - J Joplin | ||
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nice tusks. ------------------------------- Will / Once you've been amongst them, there is no such thing as too much gun. --------------------------------------- and, God Bless John Wayne. NRA Benefactor, GOA, NAGR _________________________ "Elephant and Elephant Guns" $99 shipped. “Hunting Africa's Dangerous Game" $20 shipped. red.dirt.elephant@gmail.com _________________________ If anything be of note, let it be he was once an elephant hunter, hoping to wind up where elephant hunters go. | |||
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yes, very nice! Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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Good for you Jack, what are the plans for next year ? | |||
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A beautiful pair of tusks... always a relief to get them home! On the plains of hesitation lie the bleached bones of ten thousand, who on the dawn of victory lay down their weary heads resting, and there resting, died. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch... Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son! - Rudyard Kipling Life grows grim without senseless indulgence. | |||
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Beautiful thick ivory, congrats! | |||
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Again, very nice. Congrats. | |||
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Great ivory Jack, good to see you got them home safely and in record time! "There are worse memorials to a life well-lived than a pair of elephant tusks." Robert Ruark | |||
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Men, Yes, very good to get them home. Took a dedicated team to make it happen. I wanted to name the players, as they all did an outstanding job. Thick indeed. 19.5" of roundness. Me thinks we go back and look for that suspected 80 pounder seen somewhere in the vicinity... Unless one of you makes it there first. In that case, best of luck to you! "You only gotta do one thing well to make it in this world" - J Joplin | |||
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Jack I also had a great experience with Taxidermy Ent. All my trophies made it home quickly. GREAT ivory. | |||
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Well, I know I'm jealous. Nothing like having your own tusks, maybe someday....... | |||
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Only someone who has waited for a similar arrival can really understand the relief/euphoria - and mine was only 51 lbs Congradulations! | |||
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Jack, I am still smiling. The best, Mike | |||
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Yep, the anticipation of getting the tusks and the fear of a fubar with USFWS or other govt entity. It dosnt matter if it is here o on the other side of the pond. Nice ivory by the way. It took me 2 years to get my stuff stateside this time. Tusks are at the taxidermists but will be on the the way soon. Happiness is a warm gun | |||
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Congratulations, Jack! I know how you feel. It is indeed a relief when they do make it home.  Mike Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer. | |||
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Jack, Glad to hear and good on Bruce and Leroy and all others involved. on that 80 pounder, look at this one we bumped last month - http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6321043931 it came in at 77 and 70. but that being said there are some BIG bruisers misioning around now. go well and enjoy the ivory | |||
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Jack, That is good news..Congratulations! | |||
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Congratulations Jack. Beautiful trophy. | |||
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congrats jack , its not just the ivory but all the memories and experience they contain and represent - great bull congrats to all involved - "The greatest threat to our wildlife is the thought that someone else will save it” www.facebook.com/ivancartersafrica www.ivancarterwca.org www.ivancarter.com ivan@ivancarter.com | |||
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Great news Jack! Great trophy too.... DAN | |||
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Very nice - Congrats! Antlers Double Rifle Shooters Society Heym 450/400 3" | |||
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