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100-Pound Jumbo Taken In Namibia (posted November 04, 2010)

We have just received word that a 105.3 x 101.2-pound tusker has hit the ground in the Nyae Nyae Conservancy (formerly Bushmanland) of Namibia. (See photo below.) The PH for this hunt was Kai-Uwe Denker, who has been producing numbers of 80-plus-pound bulls from this concession from the past several years. The lucky hunter was Thomas Oechsner from Germany, Denker's last client of the season.

As Denker tells us, "Thomas turned 45 during his safari, and we had a really great hunt. On the seventh hunting day we took up a huge track and eventually caught up with a very thick-tusked bull with a huge head. We circled and positioned ourselves in front of the oncoming elephant, which advanced to within 10 paces when he became aware of us and faced us with head held high and outstretched ears. Thomas brought him down with a frontal brain shot from his 10.75x68 double rifle. The tusks were officially weighed by MET game ranger Dries Alberts. The longer right tusk has a length of 1.96 meters (6.4 feet) and a circumference of 55 cm (21.7 inches) at the lip."

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