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Bigfive
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Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived! [Re: NitroX]
      #19217 - 14/09/04 05:21 PM

John,
Sorry I was unable to get to the site for a while.The buff looks great.Congrats aghain and I hope you'll enjoy it for the rest of your days.

PS!
A little bit of black paint on the face and other exposed areas and I can send you to the annual Zulu festival to join in the dance of the worrior.

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SaHunter
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Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived! [Re: Bigfive]
      #19258 - 16/09/04 04:56 PM

If he gets his face painted i want mine painted too

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Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived! [Re: NitroX]
      #19491 - 28/09/04 06:05 PM

I'm sure you are very happy John was quite a long wait though but it looks like it was worthwhile

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NitroXAdministrator
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Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived! [Re: SafariHunt]
      #307182 - 03/11/17 02:16 AM

BTTT 0- dug this oldie out for other reasons. 13 years ago!!! and 15 years since the hunt !!!!

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Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived! [Re: NitroX]
      #307184 - 03/11/17 06:05 AM

Time to get the next Buffalo. Savanah or Dwarf Forest?

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Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived! [Re: Rell]
      #307191 - 03/11/17 01:38 PM

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Time to get the next Buffalo. Savanah or Dwarf Forest?



Agreed..time for another..

Ripp

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Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived! [Re: SaHunter]
      #307275 - 05/11/17 06:27 PM

G'Day Fella's,

Great to see NitroX and thank you for sharing.

Those Spears look to be Rapid Fire and of a Multi Stab Capacity.
I hope you received approval from the greens (and at least 36 Permits and Licenses for each, from the authorities), before you brought them home.

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Homer

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Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived! [Re: Homer]
      #307282 - 05/11/17 10:27 PM

Went back in 2006 to hunt cow elephant and also cape buff.

Shot my first cow ele reasonably quickly and great fun exciting hunt. Getting chased by the herd or at least close to, they just didn't finish it off the chase.

But had a permit for a second cow elephant, and they were this time really hard to find ... so we concentrated on the elephant areas, in the Zambezi valley in the flat lands South of Lake Kariba. The buffalo were supposedly more in the hills up above the escarpment.

Did spot one herd from up on the escarpment ridge one day. Was really fun shadowing them in the bush. Aiming to cut them off and see what was in the herd several times. Made more fun by the two ele bulls sometimes 20 feet in front of us, the wind in our favour, their arses to us, they never knew we were right behind them for may 200 plus metres off and on. As they fed through the forest and bush.

As for cape buff, no good hard bossed bulls in the herd. Good horn LENGTH, the PH said his boss would kill him if he knew what he passed up. I had said NO soft bossed immature bulls.

Had fun times with a herd of elephants in the jess and bush with a swirling winds. Elephants everywhere around us, running in every direction.

Later got my second cow ele, another tuskless cow elephant.

In the end found out I could have shot FOUR elephants. One I knew of, it was a crop raider and a PAC ele. My PH wanted to get my first elke permit filled first before going for it, as the Parks may have insisted the PAC ele was my permited ele. An overturned truck blocking the road up the escarpment prevented us getting there on the day. Opportunity missed.

The last op for a ele, was a really death defiling hunt, a ele bull stuck in the mud in Lake Kariba. Parks wanted it shot as it was suffering. Would have made a real "Death in my muddy footsteps" close encounter video. (but a mercy killing, not a hunt). Of course they only told me about this "opportunity" on my last day.

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Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived! [Re: NitroX]
      #307284 - 05/11/17 10:33 PM

Yes I do want to get back. Now has been eleven years since the last time.

First time I was in Africa was in 1988 - no hunting.

Second time honeymoon and a plains game safari in Zimbabwe - fantastic safari in 1994. 6 years.

Third was 2002 and this cape buff hunt in the Matetsi Safari area after the Gwayi Valley in Zim. After a hunt with Dantri in South Africa. 8 years.

This 2002 safari was dramatised by the Gwayi Valley farm being invaded by Warvets when I was there. Later hunted Matetsi Safari area. Where we had more warvet troubles.

Fourth was in 2006, a plains game hunt with Karl Stumpfe in Namibia, then ele cows in the Zambezi valley in Northern Omay. Then my wife came over and we did the Garden Route in South Africa.

Now 2017, eleven years ... time ticking by. The urge is strong. The wallet needs to be a little stronger.

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Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived! [Re: NitroX]
      #349812 - 28/01/21 04:15 PM

Now getting on to 15 years which is way way too long!

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Ripp
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Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived! [Re: NitroX]
      #349822 - 29/01/21 02:05 AM

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Now getting on to 15 years which is way way too long!



Agree--time to get back there after all this Wuhan virus BS gets over..

have to say the longer this drags on the more its making me angry..what a load of over blown craziness... 99% survival rate .. and the world goes nuts..

Sorry, little rant for the day..

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Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived! [Re: Ripp]
      #376084 - 17/04/23 11:46 PM

Bttt

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Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived! [Re: NitroX]
      #378955 - 29/08/23 01:21 AM

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Another





Good solid bases are more essential to me than long horns on an immature bull.

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grandveneur
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Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived! [Re: NitroX]
      #378967 - 29/08/23 03:18 AM

Unfortunately mine still is not !

I was in contact with the company in Mozambique, which gave me hope that it would soon be ready for export.

After all, the hunting action took place at the end of September last year.

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