At Jaco's PC at the moment.

In Jo'burg but heading to Cape Town next.

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Had a very successful hunt in Zimbabwe and Namibia. Took two tuskless cows with frontal brain shots in the Omay. One was free

it having lost a large part of its trunk to a poachers snare and having trouble breathing. The rest of the herd was a bit cheeky after it was downed and rumbled the bush several times. In the end they won and we had to come back the next morning.

The second ele was on the last day and we had some fun with elephant herds that morning and the previous afternoon. A frontal brain shot downed this cow as well. The one to two kilometre of bush track that needed cutting to get a vehicle in for recovery was a little bit of work for the team and locals.

I had an opportunity at a PAC elephant as well on the first day but a truck turned over on a mountain road blocking our way so that didn't work out. Also a bull elephant stuck in the mud (challenging!) might have happened.

I was offered a cape buffalo left (or two) left on quota as well, but we concentrated on elephant and while we found a nice herd of sixty buffalo none were hard enough in the bosses.

The day driving out our Landcruiser dropped a wheel still in the Omay driving out so we ended up flying out the next morning.

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Namibia was fun too. Karl S (Ndumo) provided a great plains game hunt with a couple springbok, a couple gemsbok, a hartebeest, and seven warthog - one trophy. The other six warthog were for leopard bait for a problem leopard on the property. I hunted both in the Kalahari and near Windhoek.

Namibia is a great place to have a plains game safari.

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Lots of photos (I had flashcards adding up to 11 Gbs! but thankfully not used up yet!), some stories to come when I get back. Plus Shaun Buffee took over 4 1/2 hours of video on the ele hunt so hopefully some nice footage there to share later on.

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Jaco hosted a dinner at his house last night and it was also good to meet some of the local guys and members of NE.com. A pleasant evening with good food, nice wines, excellent cigars

and fine company.