Folks have a few tuskless available in the Omay North and South, Zimbabwe.

5 day tuskless $ 8500

Includes

5 days hunting
Road transfers from Bulawayo and back
Trophy fee for 1 x tuskless
Tax

7 day double tuskless $ 13 900

Includes

7 days hunting
Road transfers from Bulawayo and back
Trophy fee for 2 x tuskless
Tax

Cheers

Martin
+ 263 778 121 842
martinpieterssafaris@gmail.com

Is elephant skin considered a trophy as far as USFW moratorium is concerned?

Tuskless trophies (i.e., the hide, tail, etc.) would not be exportable regardless of the ban.

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Originally posted by MJines:
Tuskless trophies (i.e., the hide, tail, etc.) would not be exportable regardless of the ban.

Mike - please expound on this. I have the hide etc from the tuskless I shot a couple of years back, and the export of the trophy was all above board ie CITES permit etc.

I guess what I should say is that there are trophy elephants (which are exportable) and non-trophy elephants (which are not exportable). Most (virtually all?) trophy elephants are bulls since most people want to export the tusks. I guess, and your case would support it, that you could take a tuskless cow and treat it as a trophy but that has got to be the exception. I would be virtually positive that the tuskless Martin is talking about are non-exportable.

I should add this is a helluva a deal. In light of the import ban, I suspect that tuskless prices are going to go up appreciable since most US clients will gravitate to those. Martin, is that a 2014 deal only or can you do that for 2015?

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Originally posted by MJines:
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I should add this is a helluva a deal. In light of the import ban, I suspect that tuskless prices are going to go up appreciable since most US clients will gravitate to those. ...

I wonder using the same logic the price of the bull elephants is going to go down seeing that the US hunters will gravitate away from these. It could be a bargain (in a manner of speaking) for those that do not have to bring their trophies to the US.

Martin,

Can you clear up this Elephant hide question? I have heard it said before that on some tuskless hunts that hide (maybe not the actual Elephant taken) can be exported.

For sake of argument, lets say this hide is going to Mexico or Canada.

Thanks.

Wendell, these are non export elephant cows
Mart

Wendell these are non export elephant cows
Cheers
Martin

Martin,

Please drop me a PM, curious if this 2014 only or doable in 2015?

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Originally posted by tanks:

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Originally posted by MJines:
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I should add this is a helluva a deal. In light of the import ban, I suspect that tuskless prices are going to go up appreciable since most US clients will gravitate to those. ...

I wonder using the same logic the price of the bull elephants is going to go down seeing that the US hunters will gravitate away from these. It could be a bargain (in a manner of speaking) for those that do not have to bring their trophies to the US.

bull prices may go down in Zim but i bet they go up in Namibia and RSA.!!! THAT SAID, THIS IS A GOOD DEAL. i hunted Martin's Omay North for buffalo a few years ago. it is a beautiful area with camp right on Kariba.

Hey Mart, any surcharge to hunt them in the Tiger Bay jesse?

hell, Mart should give you a discount if you end up hunting in that mess. it gives new meaning to the term impenetrable! when we were chasing buff in there my biggest fear was bumping into a herd of elephants at a visual range of 10 feet or less...EXCEEDINGLY high pucker factor.