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We looked at numerous elephants in Chewore North having exciting moment of being charged down a dry river bed by an elephant bull, which turned at 10 yards. On the 7th day we found a good tuskless which Paul frontal brain shot at 25 yards. Bullet penetration was excellent approximetely 60 inches and the bullet was in perfect condition. |
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| Day 8 |
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The next day we found a tuskless that had a bad wound on one of her front legs, she obviously could not keep up with the herd as she was by herself. Paul frontal brain shot her at 10 yards. |
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She went straight down and Paul gave her a final brain shot, the bullet was not recovered. |
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| Day 9 - 12 |
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On the 9th day we found an old hippo bull that was resting up on a sand bank after suffering from numerous gashes from a previous fight with another hippo. |
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We managed to stalk up to 25 yards and Paul gave it a perfect side brain shot with his 450. The following day Paul shot a nice impala at 160 yards using his 450. |
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The remaining days in Chewore were spent fishing and relaxing. |
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| Day 13 |
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Found us in Chawalo Safari area in Mozambique where we were after a big hippo bull and croc. Day 13 was spent scouting the area. |
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| Day 14 |
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Hunting conditions were extremely difficult as the numerous islands that hold croc and hippo were vertually under water, however we managed to get into shooting distance of a very big hippo bull that Paul gave a side brain shot with his 450. |
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| Day 15 |
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Dispite seeing numerous very big crocodiles it was quite hard getting a shot because of the water levels.Lateon the 15th day we were lucky to get a huge 13' 5" croc that had been eating on one of our hippo baits. He was shot tin the brain with the 450. |
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| Day 17 |
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We then moved to Dande North where we staying in Mkanaga Camp. We had a relatively late start but luck was on our side and we found tuskless on a walk to one of the many springs in the area. Paul gave her a frontal brain shot at 20 yards. |
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| Day 18 |
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An early start found us tracking an old dugga boy out of the villages. After 2 hours of fantastic tracking we found the old dugga boy asleep in some very thick jess. We managed to get to 20 yards from him and the only shot he offered us was a frontal brain shot which Paul successfully did with his 450. |
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| Day 19 - 24 |
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The next 5 days was spent looking at over 400 elephant. We saw 17 tuskless, however they were either too small or had dependant calves. We had many exciting close encounters including 5 shout downs from mock charges. |
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On the 23rd day we finally found a huge old tuskless which Paul perfectly front brain shot at 15 yards. |
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| Client Comments |
Hunting tuskless elephant is an experience and a pleasure with Buzz Charlton. His trackers ability and his knowledge and experience made the 24 day safari a most memorable one for me.
- Paul Machmeir (DAK), July 2006 |
