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Hunt Date: Nov. 16th - Dec. 6th, 2007 Booked With: Adam Clements - Safari Trackers Inc. PH: Brian Van Blerk Hunt Area: Lokisale and Lobo Animals Taken: Lion, Leopard, Buffalo, Bushpig, Dik Dik, Eland, Hyena, Bat Eared Fox, Grant Gazelle, Coke's Hartebeest, Impala, Jackal, Lesser Kudu, Oryx, Steinbuck, Warthog, Waterbuck, White Bearded Wildebeest, Zebra Guns: Dakota M-76, 416 Rigby with 370 grain Nortfork Soft & 400 grain Barnes Banded Solid Dakota M-76, 300WSM with 200 grain Nosler Partition Comments: We had a great hunt. Adam Clements takes care of the details, from the time they pick you up at the airport to when they return you and walk you through for your trip home, you are in good hands. The camps are clean and well run with first rate accomadations. This is our 2nd time to hunt with PH Brian Van Blerk (did a 21-day hunt with him in the Selous in 2004)and when I booked with Adam it was under the condition that Brian would be our PH. He is one of the best and my wife and I consider him part of the family. The Lion was taken on day #2.    My wife struggels to lift his head up for a photo.  Lion skull - notice the left side upper molar is missing and the lower molar has a lot of calcificationn on the tooth. The upper part of the skull also had several teeth marksfrom fighting.  Leopard was taken on day #17.    Too many morning & nights in the Leopard blind.  Buffalo  My wife liked to get in there with the boy's - she would even help us load some of the bigger animals.   Hartebeest  Grants  Lesser Kudu         Bushpig  Bat Eared Fox   Wildebeest  Dik Dik  2nd Bushpig with Albert - one of the best trackers I have hunted with!  Oryx  PH Brian Van Blerk - this was his 26th lion and 106 leopard. Truly a great hunter and great person -can't say enough about his ability and passion.  Steinbok   Lobo Camp  Lobo Kitchen  Lobo Dining Rm   Leopard track w/ 416 Rigby forscale    Dung beattle - they stand on their front legs and push the ball with their rear legs; about every 18" they stop and crawl on top and look around to make sure they are headed in the right direction.  Walking Stick  Skinning Shed  Salting hides     Lion kill ~1 mile from camp    The hot water tank for our tent -had hot water around the clock     Lokasale Camp  The bush air compressor     | ||
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Congrats. Looks like you had a fantastic hunt! | |||
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MHC_TX Gorgeous cats. Congrats to you and your wife. Mark MARK H. YOUNG MARK'S EXCLUSIVE ADVENTURES 7094 Oakleigh Dr. Las Vegas, NV 89110 Office 702-848-1693 Cell, Whats App, Signal 307-250-1156 PREFERRED E-mail markttc@msn.com Website: myexclusiveadventures.com Skype: markhyhunter Check us out on https://www.facebook.com/pages...ures/627027353990716 | |||
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Awesome - I would love to be able to do a hunt like that one day. Very envious! | |||
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Looks like you had a fantastic hunt. Congratulations! ------------------------------- Some Pictures from Namibia Some Pictures from Zimbabwe An Elephant Story | |||
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Awesome animals!! Congratulations!!  _______________________________________________________ Hunt Report - South Africa 2022 Wade Abadie - Wild Shot Photography Website | Facebook | Instagram | |||
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Well done! What an awesome lion and buffalo. Paul Smith SCI Life Member NRA Life Member DSC Member Life Member of the "I Can't Wait to Get Back to Africa" Club DRSS I had the privilege to fire E. Hemingway's WR .577NE, E. Keith's WR .470NE, & F. Jamieson's WJJ .500 Jeffery I strongly recommend avoidance of "The Zambezi Safari & Travel Co., Ltd." and "Pisces Sportfishing-Cabo San Lucas" "A failed policy of national defense is its own punishment" Otto von Bismarck | |||
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Congratulations on a wonderful hunt. What a wonderful selection of animals. Kudude | |||
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That is what I would call a dream hunt. Money well spent! 465H&H | |||
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MHC TX, Thank you for sharing your fantastic experience. You are extremely lucky. A fantastic trip for you and your lovely wife to experience together. Brian is fantastic; I am glad to see he still has the right stuff. Congratulations. Hugh | |||
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Great hunt, great cats and if you will allow some leeway, your wife is a stone fox!!! | |||
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MHC great safari and congrats on the cats... Your wife looks like she had a grand time also... Mike  | |||
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What a great trip! congratulations. Awesome Lion. Steve "He wins the most, who honour saves. Success is not the test." Ryan "Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." Stalin Tanzania 06 Argentina08 Argentina Australia06 Argentina 07 Namibia Arnhemland10 Belize2011 Moz04 Moz 09 | |||
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Great pics! Congrats on a wonderful safari. | |||
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Great Animals, Congrats to you and your wife A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.” ― Theodore Roosevelt | |||
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Well done. Very nice trophies. | |||
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Looks like a dream safari. Congratulations. | |||
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Congratulations to you and your wife for what was a very successful safari to a great part of Africa with an excellent PH and top trophy's. | |||
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Wow, congratulations on a great hunt. Lovely photos thanks for sharing. Ahmed Sultan | |||
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What a fantastic safari - congrats on some superb trophies and obviously some great shooting. | |||
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Your bag was outstanding. One of the most successful hunts I've seen posted here in a long time. Congratulations. | |||
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Mike, thanks for sharing your photos; obviously you and Mrs. MHC had a great safari. Yours truly was the safari of a lifetime. The trophy quality looks terrific. The oryx is the one that caught my eye, he looks huge. I'm ready for lunch so I can see the other 1375 photos and hear the stories behind them. ______________________________ "Truth is the daughter of time." Francis Bacon | |||
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All, We had a grand time...my wife cried when we left. Forrest, I think the Oryx was 28", we were very fortunate taking nice mature animals. We had a 44" buffalo and a 43" buffalo from the same group of dugga boys on the ground, before 8:00am on the first day. I'll make sure the battery is fully charged on my computer, so we can look at all 1400 pictures...we may have to order dessert though! We got the leopard hunt on video and my wife shooting a 470NE. Now she wants her own lion and a 470NE double rifle..I'd better get back to work. I told Brian (PH) that I wanted to taste the lion, so they cooked some up. The meat texture is somewhere between a pork tendeloin & chicken and it was very good..everyone liked it. | |||
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Well done MHC. Doesn't look like you left any animals for the next guy to hunt! Even a Bat Eared Fox!! That'll be a cool mount! John | |||
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Congratulations on a great safari!! I'm looking forward to Masailand in 2009 if the pricing issue gets worked out. ____________________________________________ "Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchett. | |||
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________________________________________________ I missed a Honey Badger - it kind of startled me....it was making (actually two of them) a lot of racket as it was running off.....Brian was saying "shoot, shoot" and I wasn't sure what it was. | |||
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I would love to have a Honey Badger! I got a Black Backed Jackal two years ago and really like the "smaller" predatory mammals, especially in scenes. Congrats on the Hyena too! John | |||
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Congratulations! That is one of the most diverse, high quality and interesting set of trophies I have seen taken on one safari. There really is nothing like Tanzania. Mike Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer. | |||
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Great hunt, I Really enjoyed the pictures. I hope I have enough time to do the same.  Jim "Bwana Umfundi" NRA | |||
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Well 1st it was Shannon on her RSA hunt, and now you with your wife. Ijust love to see the women out and involved. It also makes me jealous. My wife is going to have to go through some hunting lessons! [dammit] Great photos and I hope you and especially your wife enjoyed the time. | |||
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Outstanding Trophys ! Congratulations specially on this BIG CATS Seloushunter Nec Timor Nec Temeritas | |||
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Oustanding hunt Frederik Cocquyt I always try to use enough gun but then sometimes a brainshot works just as good. | |||
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I thought that this was worth bringing to the top since Mike's wife will be the proud owner of the Legacy rifle. Dave One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know. - Groucho Marx | |||
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WOW! What an outstanding bag of trophies! And good quality too! Thanks for sharing.. Anders Hunting and fishing DVDs from Mossing & Stubberud Media: www.jaktogfiskedvd.no ..and my blog at: http://andersmossing.blogspot.com | |||
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Fantastic, thanks for sharing. BUTCH C'est Tout Bon (It is all good) | |||
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Really Really great photos! If my wife had been half as interested in hunting as yours, I'd still be married. .395 Family Member DRSS, po' boy member Political correctness is nothing but liberal enforced censorship | |||
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Your a lucky Man Texas! A wife that hunts and digs in to help. Congrats to both of you on your great trophies. Thanx for posting the pics...super!Good Hunting, David 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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