100 pounder taken in Zimbabwe

14 May 2009, 19:24

.458Aubs

Hi Guys

Thought that i would post this pic for you, the ele was shot in Sengwe hunting area in S.E. Zim, it is the same area as the frontal brain shot ele with the bow and the same area that jimmara who posts here on AR hunted on last year.
he was shot on Monday morning on the 11th of May 09

This one was shot last year and weighed in at 93 pounds

the area has produced excellent results and most ele's over 60 pounds - i will get the exact figures soon

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17 May 2009, 16:20

.458Aubs

Hi Guys

csxcs is correct the elephant was hunter with safaribound southern africa, Todd can be contacted on todd@safaribound.co.za i know that he has good pac ele available and plenty other animals.

The client is Russian and besides trying to tell him where in Zim we were flying him into turned out to be rather interesting, i believe that getting the story of the hunt will be even more difficult, i know he also shot a nice buff 2" good croc, plenty of plains game, hippo and is currently hunting for leopard and lion.

Sorry guys but the photo will have to suffice

17 May 2009, 22:07

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The area was used by the terrorist during the war. The Rhodesian govt mined the area. Supposedly there are a lot of mines left. At least that is what I was told when I hunted there in the 90's.

The PH showed me (from a distance through binos) a skeleton of an elephant that was supposedly killed my mines.

18 May 2009, 00:53

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Originally posted by larryshores:
The area was used by the terrorist during the war. The Rhodesian govt mined the area. Supposedly there are a lot of mines left. At least that is what I was told when I hunted there in the 90's.

The PH showed me (from a distance through binos) a skeleton of an elephant that was supposedly killed my mines.

Very true Larry! And there are still a number of lame elephants hobbling around from recent detonations.
Most of the leftover mines were planted by the terrorists or "freedom fighters", who did so haphazardly without any form of mapping program for retrieval later - they planted mines to prevent the Selous Scouts (crack unit of the RLI) coming after them into Mozambique.
You will probably recall the late Lady Diana was deeply involved in a mine clearing crusade in Mozambique.

18 May 2009, 13:22

jimmara

Ive hunted that area last year.You dont have to worry about land mines.They have been cleared out.There is only one or two little blocks that still have land mines but you dont go ninto them.While i was there they had a team of land mine sweepers busy clearing out the last few blocks.The area you hunt in was cleared out years ago and has been hunted for years they are 100% safe.