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Sounds like a trip full of excitement. Thanks for telling the story.

What a great hunt, you definitely had every excuse to not go. That was a tough start to the hunt.

Great report, and judging from it, the pictures will have lots of smiley faces! Congratulations.

Thanks for the report,looking forward to the pictures :-)
Did stay at Ume River camp fore an buffalo hunt (with great success) last year, did very much like the camp, hunting area and Martins people :-)

Larry..Glad you were able to make it with the Knee and Foot problems.
Sounds like you had a good time.
Welcome home.

Looking forward to seeing your photos Larry...great report

Congrats! I look forward to the pictures.

Out of curiosity, I assume the other elephant in your "two-fer" was not a tuskless.....I assume that has the potential to get expensive...?

WOW Larry,
Sound like you had a great safari. Now lets see some pics

The real Bwana Mojo!!!! Glad you had fun.

Guys I just got home. I am exhausted . I will post pictures later.

I did the report on my I pad while flying back. I need to fix the numerous typos .

As for the second elephant on the twofer , it was a tusked cow. No one saw it including the game scout who was right there. We contacted the authorities, told them the truth and promptly had all of the meat and hide delivered to them. It ended up being no problem .

Let me comment further about the game scout. His name was Test. This was my 21st Safari. Test was no doubt the best game scout I have ever seen. He worked hard. He participated in the hunt . He was definitely interested . He had a hell of a sense of humor . He was a real asset to the safari.

Congratulations on making the hunt.

The Omay is a special place, beautiful but tough at times. Lake Kariba is magnificent. I have more than once wondered what the odds of swimming 200 yards in the lake and surviving would be.

Yep I agree with Mike 110%... the Omay is tough but rewarding hunting. That is one heck of a flattie Larry! Well done... and you are tougher than me. I would have probably aborted the trip. You made the right call.

Congrats Larry and team on a great Hunt.
I love tuskless hunting too!!!!!

Well done on pushing through and getting it done.

cheers

NICK

Well done Larry ! Huge croc - must have been exciting as hell !

Strange thing about people - I also met a nice guy in Pedza camp the last couple of days of my safari with CMS. He was a Russian also. Tell you more about this later in my report.

Morten

Great report and pics Larry, thanks for sharing. Thats a very nice Crocodile, congratulations. I have hunted from both Chifudzi and Ume River Camp in HHK days. That Ume camp is definitely the most scenic camp that I have been to.

I see I missed the most entertaining photo of them. My angling skills need honing.

What a great hunt. Thanks for sharing. I met Bruce last year while Buff hunting. Great guy and excellent Ele PH.

Congrats on a succesful hunt.Thanks for sharing.


Torbjoern

Well done Larry!

Hold it closer to the camera and tell us it weighs a hundred and sixty pounds.

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Originally posted by larryshores:
I see I missed the most entertaining photo of them. My angling skills need honing.

Well done Larry, nice hunt, great turbo lizard. 2 for the price of 1 with the ele's, that's a good PH. Well done Bruce.

Congrats Larry on a great trip!

Good going Larry!!!

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Originally posted by Neil Duckworth:
Well done Larry, nice hunt, great turbo lizard. 2 for the price of 1 with the ele's, that's a good PH. Well done Bruce.

Mate, Bruce is a Plumtree boy - of course he's good!!!!!!

Great hunting report Larry! By the way, what sits on top of your double rifle? Is it the Trijicon RMR?

Larry

Well done! I agree I might have bagged the whole trip with a start like yours.

Mark

What a remarkable safari from start to finish! You are a toughy!!!! Congratulations!

Best regards, D. Nelson

This was a great report, thank you

Very nice Larry. That two for one shot sure must have been fun for Martin to explain to the authorities.

I agree that the roads between Chifudzi and the Ume camps are terrible but I enjoyed seeing all the extra countryside.

hell, the main road into Ume camp is terrible

Nice work, Larry!

Looks like a great trip and some excitement for sure.

Regards,

Chris

Wonderful time indeed Larry!

Especially like the "skinned croc" shot...that be a COOL rug to have my guests trip over!!!

Very nice!!!

Wonderful report. I really enjoyed my time in the Omay and Ume camps as well. I thought being on Kariba was a really neat add on.

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Sounds like a blast - congrats on the jumbo double!

Interesting and varied hunt. Well done on the trophy croc.

Congratulations Larry.

Another fine hunting safari, thank you for sharing it all.

Hope you're well, knee and all.

Kind regards
Jytte

Well done, sir. The Ume camp on the lakefront is a special place.

Great report . I took a 13.5 Crocodile In Mozambique in 2008 I think that Crocodile hunting is the most under rated hunt in Africa when we opened him up there was a roiled up fishing net a sling shot and a plastic bag that the locals use as a keral and some unidentified bones that could be hunman . Hunted up in the Binga area next to lake Kariba many many big Crocks

Larry, once again nice report and well done, particularly on hooking that "tiddler" fish. It's harder to catch them that small!!!

Well done to Bruce too.