JPK Thank you, good to hear from you again.

I am sorry , I am not a professional writter, so I apologise in advance if I have not made mysef clear.

I noted on both of your imputs to the topic that your own experience is that Elephant hunting is far more physical amd requires more walking. You have clearly covered many more Elephant miles than my megere few, and so I bow to your obvious extensive experience in this area.

However, you have made two very wrong assumptions

1) That my experience and apparently that of others was, or should have been the same as you own. Wrong!. My Buffalo hunt involved many hours of walking and physical exertion, whereas my Elephant hunt did not. I have not discussed my Elephant hunt because it was not, and is not a subject of complaint. It represented a very, very small portion of a 10 day Safari. To put this in terms you can understand 10% of the safari was good, 90% was not!!.

2) That Steve Boshoff was required to walk many miles in order to get one of the two Elephants shot, (not mine). He was not required to walk far at all. Just as well!!

Since you have asked I will describe some of Steve excitable behaviour/language. " YOU HAVE SHOT THE DAGGA BOY FROM DAGGA BOY LAND,IM SO EXCITED IM SHAKING " he had not seen the head. "SHOOT MAN SHOOT", I could not see the animal clearly.
On one occasion as a tuskless bull was mock charging I had to ask him not to panic, as the instructions and exitment in his voice rose.

"On chasing the wounded Buff, and complaining of Steves fitness", I agree sounds contraditory. THAT IS BECAUSE I WASNT HUNTING BAFFALO WITH STEVE BOSHOFF, Please read my account one more time.

All of us were suprised when we refound the wouded bulls tracks after 5 days. I felt that only on my insistence did we keep trying, and that after day 4 we were "just going through the motions"

JPK, I am keen to hunt Elephant again next year, so if you were happy perhaps you could tell me what operators you have hunted with????

I hope this helps.