Folks,

Lin Stanton/Mbalabala Safaris in Zimbabwe has a non-trophy bull elephant available this coming March-April when the elephants are in the villager's crops. There are lots of ele at that time of year in the Matetsi ECA.

Hunts may be at night or tracking from the field early AM. This can be a very in your face hunt. Most exciting!

You'll stay at Lin's private lodge right on the Zambezi. Very nice!

PRICE:

1X1 7 DAYS $1,150 PER DAY
RANGER FEE $350
TAX, LEVIES AND ROAD TRANSFER $1,500

NO-TROPHY BULL $7,500

Call me for an exciting ele hunt for '24.

Mark

Roughly 17k plus travel and tips for a quick Ele Hunt
Good stuff

Seems like a good price with a very reputable outfit for someone wanting to get a taste of elephant hunting without a large price tag...

Or just someone wanting to get MORE ele hunting!

Great outfitter. I hunted with Lin this May in Hwange for a non-trophy elephant. I'm happy to talk to any prospective hunters about my experience with Lin.

Pardon my ignorance, what is considered a non-trophy bull?

I'm sure Mark will put up the official answer for this particular hunt:

But in my experience it's a mature bull with broken tusks, or simply tusks below a certain weight, (genetically never going to be really big) PH's call.

Joe,

Non-trophy ele is something with short broken tusks or under 30#

Mark

Is the elephant exportable to the USA? Any chance of adding a Buffalo or hippo to the hunt?

Mark,

Just a curious question that I have, Is short broken tusks defined or is this a judgement call by everyone involved? Does it have to be both sides broken or can one side be near missing and the other full length? I can totally understand the under 30# limit but I can't really wrap my head around the other and how that is determined.

Mike,

Both tusks don't need to be broken but neither tusk can exceed 30# to be considered non-trophy. The final determination of non-trophy or trophy bull will always be at the PH's discretion.

Mark