My good friend Mike Streetman and PH Jonny Hulme found success on a great elephant at Mahenye on about November 1. Weights are pending, but this is obviously a big elephant. The long tusk is 80 x 17.

Sweet dreams are made of these....

Jonny was about due for a big bull.

If the formula for tusk weight percentages works out, that longest tusk should be around 113 lbs. Correct?


Whatever they actually weigh, that is a fantastic Elephant. Congratulations to the hunter!

Holy moly, huge ele!

Nice job, Mr. Streetman and Jonny!

HOLY SH.T! Thats on huge Ele! Great job!

Fantastic! Congrats to the PH and to the hunter! David: Makes you proud of your bro doesn't it?!

Holy cow! Or bull!! Congrats to Mike and Johnnie. I can't wait to hear the final weight.

Tim, I imagine Johnny's about 340 or so. :-)

80"total length x 17" at the lip if correct ivory should be about 68 pounds/ side fantastic bull!! Well done Johnny.

Biebs... ... ...
I meant the teeth!

WOW... very nice !

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Originally posted by Use Enough Gun:
Fantastic! Congrats to the PH and to the hunter! David: Makes you proud of your bro doesn't it?!

It makes me so proud UEG. Congratulations Mike, that is fantastic ivory, whatever it ends up weighing.

Great bull! I think this is a Mike's 3rd big bull with Zambezi.

Mark

That is a serious elephant! Well done to the hunter and outfitter/ph...

Will super and he shot it with double rifle.


Mike

WOW nicely done!!!

Damn!!!

Daylight bull or night? Incredible either way. Congrats.

Ja some more details would be nice....I heard second hand but from a reliable source that this bull came from a huge herd of bulls and that the hunters could not see some in the middle of the pack....

[QUOTE]Originally posted by safari-lawyer:




Big Ivory going of this picture...
It does seem that with this area you must wait for the Bulls along the river?

Sort of true oz, but I think 'patrolling' the river would be more accurate. A few monster crocs/kudu/bushbuck also come out of Mahenye, it is that type of area, not really for first timers but for those who want to shoot big elephant bulls. Mark Young is correct about this being Mike Streetman's 3rd bull with ZH, the other 2 were both in the sixties if I remember correctly.

Mahenye borders Gonarezhou, the boundary being the Save river. Mahenye's close proximity to Zambezi Hunter's other areas in the Save conservancy makes it an ideal big elephant area, though it seems they are shooting enough big elephants in the SVC as it is.... With the lowveld areas they operate, ZH cover all the bases, from genet cat to 70 pound elephant bulls, catering for the Zimbabwean wishlist of any hunter.

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Originally posted by Bwanna:
Daylight bull or night? Incredible either way. Congrats.

Daylight. Late afternoon.

I stand to be corrected but I don't think any of the big bulls taken in Mahenye by ZH have been taken at night...Usually evening I think. Somehow I don't think my brother enjoys the night hunting bit much...Maybe if he got desperate...I will ask him. I will also ask him how many bulls in the 50 - 75 pound range his clients have taken since he started hunting Mahenye, just for interest sake.

hell of a bull. can see how hunting these amazing animals can become addictive. congrats

With a Krieghoff? Must be fake!

Congrats to the hunter.

Proper tusks those. Well done.

GOOD GRIEF!!!

The stuff dreams are made of!

Congrats to all involved!

Regards,
Scott

David, I reckon 30% of the bulls taken in mahenye are at night and the rest are late afternoon or early morning. This year there have been 3 bulls taken in Mahenye so far....I believe they are 45lbs, 65lbs and the one Mike has just taken.

Hmmmm, another one of these newly hatched anonymous posters trying to undermine my comment...Knuckle, I ask you! Who is this fellow, has he even been to Maheneye? Maybe a greenie.....Reveal yourself imposter!

On a more serious note, I am in Harare now so I suggest do your best to extend your short arms into your very deep pockets and buy me coffee at your earliest convenience!

David, I'm not sure, but I believe knuckle spends a lot of time in sango camp.
GREAT TROPHY MIKE!!

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I stand to be corrected but I don't think any of the big bulls taken in Mahenye by ZH have been taken at night...Usually evening I think. Somehow I don't think my brother enjoys the night hunting bit much

What an experience to patrol the rivers for these monsters. I had a chance once to move a hunt into Mehenye and hunt at night. I hear it's a real gas and ups the pucker factor considerably, but I wasn't that keen on it. Again, what a great bull!

Okay, so I have done my research and knuckle is correct - up to 30% of Mahenye bulls are shot at night. Also true is that about 70% of the bulls taken in Mahenye are shot by clients hunting with PH J Hulme...

How did I miss this thread? What a set of tusks. Hunter must have been over the moon.

awesome

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Originally posted by MJines:
How did I miss this thread? What a set of tusks. Hunter must have been over the moon.

Mike, check these pictures of a couple more bulls taken by Mike Streetman with Jonny in Mahenye, a couple years ago.

Sweet. Pity those tusks in the last picture have so much taper. If they held their weight all the way out, wow.