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Early season is marked with usually fleeting sightings of most game, a swish of a tail here, a glimmer of ivory there as we peer into, sometimes under the thick brush trying to make out what way the elephant is facing!  BUT It is also lush and the animals are in fantastic condition. It's quiet (there are no leaves on the ground), and being the first one into an area, all sorts of surprises await us. This safari was no exception. We were in Sango, The Save Valley and elephant was on the agenda. I'll leave it at that and let the pictures do the talking.... Enjoy    Couple of tracks that I really liked and followed, but the bulls were not what we were looking for.   But this was the one ....               Subscribe to our Newsletter and follow us hunt to hunt - http://mailchi.mp/eccf60046a6c/welcome-to-2018 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/pages...aris/286258951422383 PHOTO BLOG - https://instagram.com/ivorytrailsafaris/ Phillip Smythe www.ivorytrailsafaris.com 16 Pendennis Rd, Mount Pleasant Harare Zimbabwe Cell - +263 772 413 618 email - phillip@ivorytrailsafaris.com | ||
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77 in the Save is quite spectacular - must be the biggest taken there ? Those Gonarhezou genes are great! Congrats | |||
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Congrats! | |||
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Outstanding! | |||
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Fantastic. Congrats Phillip! Good Hunting, Tim Herald Worldwide Trophy Adventures tim@trophyadventures.com | |||
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Wow ..... Well done I hope each hunt was as exciting as the pictures | |||
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Well done! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ J. Lane Easter, DVM A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.– Billy Clayton, Speaker of the Texas House No state commands such fierce pride and loyalty. Lesser mortals are pitied for their misfortune in not being born in Texas.— Queen Elizabeth II on her visit to Texas in May, 1991. | |||
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Nice. | |||
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Well done! Best regards, D. Nelson | |||
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Well Done! Guns and hunting | |||
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Brilliant..  | |||
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Just outstanding. I long for the days when I could afford to hunt Sango. Had lots of great times there. Will J. Parks, III | |||
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Phillip, Huge congrats! 19" at the lip! Very nice. My first client of the '18 season also took a very nice bull on the Save. 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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Outstanding! | |||
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WOW!!! | |||
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Well done Phillip. Outstanding as always and a very impressive set of trophies. ROYAL KAFUE LTD Email - kafueroyal@gmail.com Tel/Whatsapp (00260) 975315144 Instagram - kafueroyal | |||
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Looks like an extremely successful safari. Beautiful trophies. Congrats. Bruce | |||
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Beautiful! Frank "I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money." - Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953 NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite | |||
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Great trophies Phillip, very well done indeed! Congrats! 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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Great report congrats on a great hunt Tim | |||
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We couldn't have done it without my team, so they deserve most of the credit - I only point and say... that one! The team on the ground and Zambezi Hunters do a phenomenal job. It makes the rest of us look good Subscribe to our Newsletter and follow us hunt to hunt - http://mailchi.mp/eccf60046a6c/welcome-to-2018 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/pages...aris/286258951422383 PHOTO BLOG - https://instagram.com/ivorytrailsafaris/ Phillip Smythe www.ivorytrailsafaris.com 16 Pendennis Rd, Mount Pleasant Harare Zimbabwe Cell - +263 772 413 618 email - phillip@ivorytrailsafaris.com | |||
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Great start to the season, especially the Save, well done Phil and Team, done the proper way | |||
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Great trophy, well done ! | |||
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Way to go Phillip miss you guys been much to long .So you are the elephant man as well as the leopard man | |||
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Did age that good ellie bull Philip? A photo of his lower jaw and the soles of his front and back feet would help us greatly with the elephant aging work we do at the Southern African Wildlife college. | |||
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Fantastic all the way around. Congratulations. | |||
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Great, one happy hunter especially if he can take it home " Until the day breaks and the nights shadows flee away " Big ivory for my pillow and 2.5% of Neanderthal DNA flowing thru my veins. When I'm ready to go, pack a bag of gunpowder up my ass and strike a fire to my pecker, until I squeal like a boar. Yours truly , Milan The Boarkiller - World according to Milan PS I have big boar on my floor...but it ain't dead, just scared to move... Man should be happy and in good humor until the day he dies... Only fools hope to live forever “ Hávamál” | |||
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We age all the animals in the Save. Something that I am always fascinated by - currently our Ecologist is the one who will work out his age and I will let you know when it is complete. He was on his 5th set of molars and they were fully in wear with 1/2 an inch of his 4th set just about to be pushed out. Subscribe to our Newsletter and follow us hunt to hunt - http://mailchi.mp/eccf60046a6c/welcome-to-2018 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/pages...aris/286258951422383 PHOTO BLOG - https://instagram.com/ivorytrailsafaris/ Phillip Smythe www.ivorytrailsafaris.com 16 Pendennis Rd, Mount Pleasant Harare Zimbabwe Cell - +263 772 413 618 email - phillip@ivorytrailsafaris.com | |||
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Well done Phil on a great ele. If he was on his 5th set of molars he was with out doubt going to be 100 lbs plus as they put on most their weight in their last 10 years of life- I have a hunt for ele there next year which i am looking forward to!!! | |||
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Huge congrats Phil....proud of ya bro!!! Phil helped me take 2 elephants...including my 82lb x 84lb bull. Big elephants seem to gravitate to him! | |||
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Well done Ace!! | |||
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Awesome!! Go Duke!! | |||
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Great job Phillip aka the ginger NRA LIFE MEMBER DU DIAMOND SPONSOR IN PERPETUITY DALLAS SAFARI CLUB LIFE MEMBER SCI FOUNDATION MEMBER | |||
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Superb Phil! Take care. | |||
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