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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! NitroXAdministrator 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! NitroXAdministrator   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! NitroXAdministrator   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! NitroXAdministrator   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! NitroXAdministrator   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! NitroXAdministrator   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! NitroXAdministrator   05/11/17 10:27 PM
. * * Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived! NitroXAdministrator   05/11/17 10:33 PM
. * * Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived! NitroXAdministrator   28/01/21 04:15 PM
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. * * Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived! NitroXAdministrator   17/04/23 11:46 PM
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. * * Re: My Cape Buffalo has finally arrived! NitroXAdministrator   21/08/04 11:28 PM
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