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The following sequence comes from Ray Vandever's recent big game hunt in Chewore. I hope you enjoy it

Dave

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A cloud-delayed Chewore dawn creates illusionary effect

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Wild-dog at dawn

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A herd of buffalo bunches up on the fringe of the Chenje airfield

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An elusive grysbok (chiteke) is glimpsed momentarly, before it darts away into entangled jesse flanking the Maura River

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More seldom seen antelope. This time roan, towards the top end of the Maura

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What we always believed to be our most promising bait is hit by a large tom, and all angles are covered in preparation for a pre-dawn walk-in the following morning....

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Back down the Maura. Midway along that scenic river's course, we come across this small group of buffalo. Note the super bull and the one horned old cow.

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Elephants flee our intrusion, although one cow is not so sure she should be fleeing

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Shortly after the trackers and gamescouts chased and failed to apprehend several poachers whom we suprised at a spring. A couple of shots were fired and spears recovered. In this picture are two Parks gamescouts, Ray Vandever and tracker Oriah. They look like they are about to start a revolution, African style!

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Siesta time

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Ever on the death watch.

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If the Skoal tobacco company would like to use PH Richard Tabor in an advertisement, they should be advised that I am the man to speak with

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Jason Bromley, our eager young apprentice, is saving up to buy an ammo belt

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An afternoon walk down a wending tributary of the Maura brings about this encounter with a startled female klipspriger

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More buffalo are spotted on a rocky ridge, as we make our way back towards Mana-Angwa in the late afternoon. That jongos bull will be an excellent trophy for a hunter one day. Or a satisfying feed for a pride of hungry lions!

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This sandgrouse chick almost became a road kill. That would have been unlucky, as the traffic is not too heavy in Chewore

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Never too tired to share good humor with good friends. From the left: senior PH and elephant hunting legend, Magara Dirapenga, PH Richard Tabor, the journalist and PH Peter Wood