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Area - Black Rhino Conservancy (Kwekwe) PH - PHILLIP SMYTHE (IVORY TRAIL SAFARIS) Rifle - .300 Win Mag Species - Leopard, odds and ends Dates - May 2017 If its big cats you are after and you like a bit of a challenge, Kwekwe is for you. These notorious cattle killers are renowned for being some of the smartest cats in Zimbabwe, BUT some of the biggest. Off we went specifically for a 'Big Boy' and what a safari we had. I love 'free spooling' cats - it really gives you a sense of what these cats do with their kills. Needless to say we used this technique and after following a drag mark from our bait and some monster leopard tracks beside it we found the bait on a small ledge on the edge of a cliff... not the best place to build a blind thats for sure. Quickly assessing where he took the meat and where we could place our blind, we chose a spot that was ideal...but close... very close! 24 yards to be exact. The blind.... close but well concealed.  A little genet arrives at 0530, pleasant to watch but not what we are here for. Finally at 0130 in the morning, a crunch of a bone... he is here. All signals in the blind are exchanged and the light goes on and sitting there beautifully is this amazing cat. Big head, small ears, heavy shoulders ... my breath was literally taken away with being so close to one of these cats. Undisturbed by the light he kept feeding and when he finally moved into the best position available it was Pauls turn! Paul took the shot and a troop of baboons roosting nearby took great fright and you could hear them jumping out of the trees and hitting the ground behind us. Well done Paul for taking an amazing creature and making the shot count. Here he is!   Some other neat critters we took on safari.        Happy hunting 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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another fantastic hunt- congrats! Good Hunting, Tim Herald Worldwide Trophy Adventures tim@trophyadventures.com | |||
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Congrats Phil well deserved. | |||
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Great Leopard, well done. I like this kind of hunt for big toms. Ahmed Sultan | |||
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Saw your sons leopard... BEAUTIFUL, what a brute! 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! Nice trophies and a beautiful cat! Guns and hunting | |||
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Excellent trophies Phil, well done 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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Very nice trophies congrats!!! | |||
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Nice cat! Well done!! | |||
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What brute of a Cat. Well done. Nec Timor Nec Temeritas | |||
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Great report! I meant to be DSC Member...bad typing skills. Marcus Cady DRSS | |||
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SON!!! That's a stud Leopard. Thanks for posting. | |||
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Great cat, Phillip. What a brute, congrats and well done. | |||
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Awesome Cat!! | |||
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"Free Spooling..." That sounds like a very interesting way to hunt leopards. Congratulations to all! | |||
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That's a brute.... well done Phil | |||
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Gorgeous cat and awesome wartie. Well played sir! Jesus saves, but Moses invests | |||
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