Our elephant bull hunt and tuskless was planned 2 years ago and took place in Chirisa. We looked at lots of elephant and did some long tracking sessions, one of which was 10 hours and we didn’t see the bull. On day 2 we were in a herd of 150 elephant for over 1 ½ hours before we sneaked in and John frontal brained a tuskless at 20 yards.

12 days later we followed a bull for 3 hours before catching him. We decided to take him and John went for a frontal brain shot at 7 yards in very thick bush. The shot was a little high but John’s back up shot slowed the bull down which we caught 2 hours later & John perfectly brained him at 10 yards. We also shot a buffalo cow and management bull, collected honey and generally had a good time.

This was a wonderful hunt and CM Safaris was a very professional outfitter. The trackers were very good as was the cameraman. I would go with CM Safaris again for elephant. Buzz Charlton has guided over 350 elephant hunts and not many PH’s can boast that. His experience shows in the hunt and his safety for all in the hunting crew.

- John, April 2009