If you're an American and can't import it, it never needs to be weighed up for the CITES paperwork. You can just lie to yourself and say it was 105lbs. Saves ya a ton of money.
But if you need importability, your ability to prevail a case-by-case import application with USFWS your options of operators that are likely to have the essential data for a compelling approval is very slim. I do not know if or which Botswana operators will be in a similar position. Certainly, the challenges of showing consistent giving, support, and employment for the local community is going to be hard to demonstrate when they could not earn any revenue for the past 7 years during the elephant ban in Bots.
So I go back preferring harvest of elephant #12345ABC when it is standing on Zimbabwean soil rather than hunting it in Eastern Botswana ninety days later. (this assuming Hwange race elephants are desired rather than the Krueger-Gonarazou race)
There are many very large elephants in Zimbabwe and I'm not aware of any data that shows that larger bulls are killed either individually or on the average in Bots versus Zim most years. Why the data isn't equally distributed for both countries, I cannot explain. (both have smaller race elephants as well like Bots Tuli Block and Zims Zambezi Valley)
