Safaris De Moçambique

The Accurate Reloading Forums

This topic can be found at:
https://forums.accuratereloading.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/6321043/m/8671081161

____________________________

Click for some photos on Instagram

www.bwana.be

"There are worse memorials to a life well-lived than a pair of elephant tusks." Robert Ruark

21 August 2011, 04:03

Mad Dog

Excellent photos. Congrats on a great trip! But I do want to hear about the marauding ele!

maddog

NRA LIFE MEMBER
DU DIAMOND SPONSOR IN PERPETUITY
DALLAS SAFARI CLUB LIFE MEMBER
SCI FOUNDATION MEMBER

21 August 2011, 05:10

jjbull

Your pictures are brilliant and as previously stated, they do tell a story. But not the WHOLE story!!

I hope we get details soon including the camera(s) used.

Thanks and congratulations.

___________________________________________________________________________________

Give me the simple life; an AK-47, a good guard dog and a nymphomaniac who owns a liquor store.

21 August 2011, 06:21

MJines

Congratulations on what looks like was a wonderful hunt. Thank you for sharing your pictures and your story. Let's hear about that marauding elephant too!

On the plains of hesitation lie the bleached bones of ten thousand, who on the dawn of victory lay down their weary heads resting, and there resting, died.

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch...
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
- Rudyard Kipling

Life grows grim without senseless indulgence.

Good Hunting,

Tim Herald
Worldwide Trophy Adventures
tim@trophyadventures.com

21 August 2011, 17:41

Hollis Perkins

Great photos, and I know you had a great time if you hunted with Chris. I've hunted with him four different times, and each time was a real hoot.

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

22 August 2011, 02:39

robncolorado

Ackley,
My buddy just returned from the same camp as you were in, he reported a fine safari as well!

______________

DSC, DU, MBS, NRA, QDMA, RGS, RMEF, SCI

"Sherrill. Why do you belong to so many organizations?"
"Well... I have this thing for banquets."

22 August 2011, 06:48

strapman

Excellent trophies and excellent photos. Regarding your Kudu, did you measure the horns? I don't pay attention to SCI standards so I don't know the minimum for the Greater Kudu but yours was very nice.

22 August 2011, 09:54

BaxterB

It just hit me that this was a Mozambique safari. I am so used to Zambia, Tanzania, Zim etc I overlooked this. Excellent to see a good report from Moz.

Your pic of the village and the radiating trails reminds me of stories my uncle told of flying over Africa from Accra to Egypt in WWII with Pan Am. Said the big towns were literally like spoked wheels the trails were so defined.

22 August 2011, 19:22

PWN375

Beautiful photos and nice trophies. Your buffalo looks very much like the one I killed there in 2001. It is hard to believe it has been 10 years since I hunted there. My hunt was just after the floods and they were rebuilding the camp. Back then Peit Houggard had the concession.

Perry

22 August 2011, 21:21

MARK H. YOUNG

AIU,

Nice report and photos. Looks like from the smiles that you and your wife had a great time. Interesting that you used a high velocity expnding bullet on the elephant. I always thought that would work with the right bullet but it kind of flies in the face of conventional wisdom.

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

22 August 2011, 23:34

MARK H. YOUNG

AIU,

Exactly what I would have expected from the Failsafe. Were you able to determine how much penetration you got? I know that enough is the answer but it would be nice know how it would have compared to say a monometal solid.

So what's next after RSA and Mozambique?

Mark

23 August 2011, 00:32

Hutty

Great photos from a fantastic trip. Chris is a great PH. Got to spend time with him and his family in Zim in 09. All around good guy and excellent PH.

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense

23 August 2011, 02:34

only.375H&H

Thank you for sharing such nice photos. Impressive shot at 350 yards.
Liked all animals hunted specially the Kudu.

Work to live...live to Hunt....

Michael Podwika... DRSS bigbores and hunting www.pvt.co.za " MAKE THE SHOT " 450#2 Famars

24 August 2011, 05:09

D. Nelson

AIU;

Great report and breath-taking photos.

Congratulations on an exceptionally successful safari!

Best regards, D. Nelson

25 August 2011, 10:46

samir

Nice Buff. thanks for the report. I shot a kudu two years ago through the front part of the neck and recovered the bullet in back of the neck with a 180gr failsafe out of a .300. There was one petal still left on the bullet. I'm not to sure I would trust a failsafe on an elephant, but it obviously worked for you.

10 March 2012, 06:22

jackalhunter

I have a 280 AI which I have been shooting 3 months, also a 375 H&H mag which I have hunted with in South Africa. Am curious about your 375 AI. Any chance of getting some details about your gun? Who chambered it, what action, what maximum magazine length, what stock, what length barrel, etc., etc. Do you handload for it? What is benchrest accuracy like with the 250 TTSX which I also have used? Sorry for all the questions, but am quite curious.
Tom in Connecticut

Rusty
We Band of Brothers!
DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member
"I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends."
----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836
"I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841
"for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.”

10 March 2012, 18:58

bwanajay

AIU, I love fail safe bullets and am well stocked up on them. Years ago I started cutting a slight cannular for crimping to keep recoil from changing the seating depth on the cartridges in the magazine. Have you ever experienced this problem?