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Great report so far, thanks for sharing.
Are you just screwing with us or what! Why haven’t you posted a picture of that elephant yet?
That's fantastic and good shooting! I met Buzz's wife at her booth Simpli Simbi at DSC. That's a great way to use the actual casting of the footprint.Day 5
After breakfast we headed to the area where the day before Dean had seen the big Elephant with small feet. Sure enough we located the toilet paper markers and Buzz and the two trackers tried to find something that would differentiate the big bulls small feet from all the other small feet. They were unable to do so.
We did find a big track on the way to that one so we headed back to that location. We picked up that track and went about a 150 yards into the Ataxacantha Jesse when we spotted a bull Elephant that Buzz wanted me to shoot. The Elephant presented a side brain shot at 18 yards and was content actually eating the Ataxacantha (aka Flame Acacia or Flame Thorn which refers to the color of the berries).
The thickness of the Jesse made it difficult for me to positively identify the Elephants ear hole. About the time the Elephant stopped flapping his ears, which indicates something warrants further investigation, I was comfortable with my shot placement for a side brain shot and squeezed the front trigger.
The Elephant reacted in the classic way for a brain shot with its back end collapsing first which causes him to throw his trunk up. Death is instantaneous. He remained in the upright position until Buzz had me put a second insurance shot into his shoulder which caused him to fall over.
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That night sitting around the campfire Buzz mentioned that his wife does impressions of the feet in silver as wall hangings. I thought that would be a great idea and okayed that work.
I had a four hour layover in Atlanta so thought I'd make good use of that timeSo that’s all I needed to do to get more out of you![]()
Keep it coming really enjoying this.
Don't know yet, I'm guessing 35 only because we passed on a bunch of 25-30's. I'll post it once they been officially weighed. And thanks.Any how much the tusks weigh? Congratulations!!!
Better then bar stools or whatever, at least for me anyway.That's fantastic and good shooting! I met Buzz's wife at her booth Simpli Simbi at DSC. That's a great way to use the actual casting of the footprint.