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Hopdoc,

An excellent outfit. Just first rate. Do you have an idea yet regarding who your PH will be?

Makore Safaris shares Chewore South with Roger Whittall Safaris and Western Safaris, (John and James Rosenfelt), two other top notch outfits. Roger Whittall and Barry Duckworth used to be partners but their wives didn't get along - go figure.

If you are in Chewore South, you will love it. I have hunted 34 days total there on two safaris, but with Roger Whittall Safaris. The Makori camp is very nice. Lots of buff in Chewore South, if you are patient and work hard you will be rewarded. I have killed four buff there, a just shy of forty incher - 39 1/2" but whose measuring? - and two thirty seven inchers along with a cow.

Are you hunting a trophy bull elephant or a tuskless? I hunted last September for a trophy bull but came up empty. Shot three tuskless there though in Sept, and one in Oct the previous year. The biggest bull we saw in Sept was about five feet of beautiful but thin ivory, probably 45lbs a side. Too young a bull for the third day of the safari - might have been a different call the last day though. But there was a bull whith DAMN big feet hanging around near the Makore camp, which was closed for awhile. Never did catch up to him. Who knows - big feet, small or broken ivory or big feet jaw dropping ivory...

Hope you find him if you are hunting a bull.

The Duckworth's and Whittalls are also neighbors in the Save Conservatory. I have been to a braii - BBQ - at the Duckworths' in the Save. Very nice folks and the PHs that I met there who work for the Duckworths were all great guys too.

I have also taken a just shy 17" bushbuck, a nice zebra stallion, a hyhena and a 4" klipspringer from Chewore South. Half dozen impala too. I have hunted lion there, but not too intensely since it interferes with elephant hunting, and struck out, seen maybe thiry though including lions, lioness, and cubs. Hunted leopard but same story. Gave up on a good leopard bait to try to find Big Foot but never caught him as I mentioned.

You will have a great safari!

JPK
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