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NitroX
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Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!
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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My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!	NitroX	21/08/04 02:20 PM
Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!	SafariHunt	28/09/04 06:05 PM
Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!	NitroX	03/11/17 02:16 AM
Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!	Rell	03/11/17 06:05 AM
Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!	Ripp	03/11/17 01:38 PM
Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!	Bigfive	14/09/04 05:21 PM
Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!	SaHunter	16/09/04 04:56 PM
Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!	DPhillips	22/08/04 01:59 PM
Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!	Gibbs505	22/08/04 11:28 AM
Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!	Bakes	22/08/04 08:29 AM
Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!	mikeh416Rigby	22/08/04 07:39 AM
Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!	AdamTayler	22/08/04 03:57 AM
Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!	DONOTDELETE	22/08/04 05:56 PM
Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!	Bakes	22/08/04 11:27 PM
Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!	NitroX	22/08/04 11:46 PM
Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!	470Nitro	24/08/04 12:39 AM
Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!	NitroX	24/08/04 01:09 AM
Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!	AspenHill	24/08/04 02:36 AM
Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!	NitroX	12/09/04 02:27 PM
Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!	500grains	24/08/04 01:26 PM
Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!	SaHunter	12/09/04 12:48 PM
Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!	NitroX	12/09/04 02:30 PM
Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!	SaHunter	12/09/04 04:48 PM
Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!	Homer	05/11/17 06:27 PM
Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!	NitroX	05/11/17 10:27 PM
Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!	NitroX	05/11/17 10:33 PM
Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!	NitroX	28/01/21 04:15 PM
Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!	Ripp	29/01/21 02:05 AM
Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!	NitroX	17/04/23 11:46 PM
Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!	EricD	22/08/04 01:09 AM
Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!	475Guy	22/08/04 01:03 AM
Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!	AspenHill	22/08/04 12:57 AM
Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!	NitroX	21/08/04 11:28 PM
Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!	NitroX	29/08/23 01:21 AM
Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!	grandveneur	29/08/23 03:18 AM
Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!	NitroX	22/08/04 03:46 PM
Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived!	NitroX	22/08/04 03:56 PM
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