shakari and tamatku: I think you guys are right. My bull had thick, worn horns a "blue' neck and a big tuft of red hair. IT was a great hunt, lots of tracking and a longish (for Zimbabwe)shot of 175yads with a 375 H&H and 300gr A Frame swifts. jorge

Kamaatu;
Nope, it was a bull.

........looks very much like a cow to me, perhaps it's a bull that got his nuts damaged at some point



Either way, it has very long horns, and although it probably wouldn't score particularly well with SCI (due to the thiness of the bases) who score on the total of the combined length and combined base circumferance, it would probably score very well on the Rowland Ward method which is just the length of the longest horn.

This is a perfect example of why I don't like the fuss made about trophy scoring.

I would gladly take an old bull, in any species, with worn down horns, rather than get a young bull that will score very high in the record books.

I would not classify that first eland as a trophy of any sort.

We had one hunter with us once, and he shot one just like this bull.

WE called it the "sucklinh eland" for being so you

I'm not an Eland hunter,so I wouldn't know a good one from a mediocre one. Here's a pic my Namibia PH sent me. Is this a bull in his prime? Most Eland I've seen had shorter, blunter horns.