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Charlton McCallum Safaris: 2013 Hunting Season (First Report)

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21 May 2013, 18:24
Buzz Charlton
Charlton McCallum Safaris: 2013 Hunting Season (First Report)
Dear Accurate Reloading Friends,

2013 started with our earliest hunt on record. We normally try to start our ele bulls as early as April but Mac Jenkins and I decided that we would risk the rains and getting stuck to hunt the east in Feb/March hoping to surprise a big bull from Moz. The hunting gods smiled on us and in 12 days of hunting we only got wet once and we got an amazing 66 lbs which I think will be the biggest valley elephant this year! We also managed to track up a beautiful sable bull to complete Mac’s safari!

Mac Jenkins:

Mac Jenkins:

Mac Jenkins:


Mac's hunt set the trend for the following elephant hunts which have been great successes despite the really thick bush and full pans due to a great rainy season. It looks like CMS will for the 3rd season have the highest elephant average for the Zambezi Valley! Credit must go to the wonderful trackers that our dedicated PHs use for unlike Botswana etc. without trackers you will not even see an elephant -- certainly an ele bull hunt in the Zambezi Valley is the ultimate hunt!

Mike Jines:

Nick Hood:

James Farris:


2013 has also been special in that it is the first season that CMS clients can hunt the whole of the Dande North area (500 000 acres) as we bought out our neighbors! We have just started our cat and buffalo hunts and while hard as always is the case early season we have shot some great trophies.

Jack Hood:

Jack Hood:

Joseph Johanik:

Guy Menefee:

Nick Hood:

Nick Hood:

Marty Vick:

Joseph Johanik:

Joseph Johanik:


While I felt the standard of our camps were on a par with most hunting camps of the better known operators, the inclusion of Sarah and Richard Tabor on a managerial role has taken them to new heights! We also sent all our cooks in for refresher course with a well known cooking expert here in Zim, who incidentally won 2nd prize in the world cook books of the year 2012! The food has been 2nd to none and much enjoyed by all our clients to date!!

We are all, at CMS looking, forward to all the up and coming safaris. In fact, I will be gone now for the next five weeks hunting. Talk to everyone when I return!

Cheers Buzz Myles and team!



21 May 2013, 18:34
matt u
Buzz..Thanks for the report,and good luck on future hunts!
21 May 2013, 18:50
subsailor74
Great trophies Buzz - what area were these animals taken in / what camp did you use?
21 May 2013, 19:12
miketaylor
Awesome trophies Buzz, see you on the 8th July!!


With kind regards
Mike
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21 May 2013, 19:20
FishN4Eyes
Strong start to the year!

Some really good stuff there.
21 May 2013, 19:42
505 gibbs
wow, that is impressive.
21 May 2013, 20:03
Tim Vining
One of these years Buzz. Your report whets the appetite!!


Tim

21 May 2013, 20:19
r_p_narramore
Great pics. Thanks for the report. I can't wait 'til September.
21 May 2013, 20:59
larryshores
Damn that one buff looks really good. Can't wait until October.
21 May 2013, 21:05
Safari2
Congrats Buzz.
21 May 2013, 21:16
Thierry Labat
Well done Buzz. Big congrats to the whole CMSafrais gang, and of course to all the clients, who without them none of this would be possible.
I hope the rest of the season continues in the same manner.
Cheers


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21 May 2013, 21:56
pagosawingnut
Well done!
21 May 2013, 22:09
fairgame
Class act.


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21 May 2013, 22:14
Tim Herald
great stuff Buzz!


Good Hunting,

Tim Herald
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21 May 2013, 22:57
MANDLAZIM
Congrats Buzz and everyone involved.

I bet Tabor is so chuft to be back in the bush, doing what he does best!!!
22 May 2013, 07:27
retreever
Fine season so far.

Mike


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22 May 2013, 08:10
martin pieters
Great start Buzz, as always. Good luck on your hunt, talk when you are back.


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22 May 2013, 09:18
Texas Blue Devil
Awesome Start!!!


Go Duke!!
22 May 2013, 17:07
bwanamrm
Congrats and well done Buzz!


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.
22 May 2013, 23:32
Svinejakt
Great trophies so far, looking forward to the rest of the seasonSmiler
22 May 2013, 23:44
Use Enough Gun
Outstanding Buzz! tu2
22 May 2013, 23:46
cjfoster
Congrats on a great start to the year! tu2
22 May 2013, 23:53
shootaway
The thought of being in one of those pics sometime in the future makes getting up in the morning a little less difficult.
23 May 2013, 01:36
GunsCore
Fantastic! By the way, when do you expect to release your next DVD, Zambezi Extreme:Volume Two?


STAY IN THE FIGHT!
23 May 2013, 02:58
safari-lawyer
As usual, well done CMS.

I know most of those hunters.

Good okes, all of them.


Will J. Parks, III
23 May 2013, 05:28
Orvar
Nice one guys!
23 May 2013, 05:54
gunny
Good show that.
24 May 2013, 06:05
Skip Nantz
Congrats on a great start of a season!! Look forward to another update. As always, JOB WELL DONE!


Skip Nantz
24 May 2013, 10:00
jens poulsen
Looks great. A good start leads to a succesfull endning

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26 May 2013, 00:52
bwanajay
That's awesome Buzz. Keep us posted.