African Trophies Got Home

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Impala
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Wart Hog
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Nyala Wildebeest
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African Buffalo
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I cant even imagine what a safari like that would cost. Not to mention the mounting of the skulls, and the courier back to home. Is that included in the cost of the hunt? Either way, very nice mounts.
 
very nice, thanks for sharing. personally, if i ever make it to africa, i think the field photo and skull mounts is the way i would go.
 
The hunt was on the south western edge of the Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania (Area LU 2), and was the first hunt in the area at the beginning of July 2006. Got the buff on my birthday, doesn't get any better than that. We were allowed 2 each on the licence, I got one, the fellow I shared the hunt with got one, and any other times we saw them they were just fleeting glimpses with no opportunity for a shot. Lots of grass that early in the season - much of it more than 12' high. The PH was Mark Sullivan.
 
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Nice Boomer, thanks for sharing....

Wont be that much longer before it's too risky to go to Africa period considering the political climate there.
 
Jay said:
Mark Sullivan, nice! That guy's been in some tight situations with game!!!

Cheers
Jay
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Our hunt was no different. Picture this. A sea of 12' high grass, and our tracker gets us into the middle of a herd of 300 buffalo. You could hear them and smell them. Now and then you'd see a patch of black hide, or the sun glint off a horn, but we never saw a single animal. Once they realize we're there they want to get away. The ground trembles, the tracker runs past me from my right and I swing on him expecting a set or horns to follow. He's gone and behind a tree with my wife in tow. All of us have our rifles trained on that wall of grass 4' from our muzzles knowing it will be just a matter of moments before we're run over. Crazy exciting!

A few days later he were in a forested area at sunset with the same herd. It was wild. You could hear grunts and bellows. You could hear crashing through the bush as small trees were being knocked over. It was all but dark when we came out of there. I'm bringing up the rear when the other hunter's .375 booms. I fully expected to see a bull buff in the dirt, but it was a wildebeest who was probably wondering what was causing all the excitement.

We got chased by an juvenile elephant, twice on consecutive evenings - you wouldn't believe so much noise could come out of one animal. We saw lions, we set a leopard bait, but nothing hit it. We were almost run over by a hippo when driving back to camp in the dark. My wife was in the front with the driver (no doors or roof on the Land Cruiser) and she could feel it's breath on her hand.

Even if no shooting opportunities had been available, the experience was worth every penny - and it was quite a few pennies. Having the trophies home brings back a flood of memories, and the desire to return.
 
Boomer said:
The hunt was on the south western edge of the Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania (Area LU 2), and was the first hunt in the area at the beginning of July 2006. Got the buff on my birthday, doesn't get any better than that. We were allowed 2 each on the licence, I got one, the fellow I shared the hunt with got one, and any other times we saw them they were just fleeting glimpses with no opportunity for a shot. Lots of grass that early in the season - much of it more than 12' high. The PH was Mark Sullivan.
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Thos European mounts are exactly the kind of thing I like to see, fantastic!
Mr. Sullivan would be the fella on the right of the pic with all the 470's stuck in his belt?
I think I recognize him from one of his videos....
Cat
 
Boomer said:
Our hunt was no different. Picture this. A sea of 12' high grass, and our tracker gets us into the middle of a herd of 300 buffalo. You could hear them and smell them. Now and then you'd see a patch of black hide, or the sun glint off a horn, but we never saw a single animal. Once they realize we're there they want to get away. The ground trembles, the tracker runs past me from my right and I swing on him expecting a set or horns to follow. He's gone and behind a tree with my wife in tow. All of us have our rifles trained on that wall of grass 4' from our muzzles knowing it will be just a matter of moments before we're run over. Crazy exciting!

A few days later he were in a forested area at sunset with the same herd. It was wild. You could hear grunts and bellows. You could hear crashing through the bush as small trees were being knocked over. It was all but dark when we came out of there. I'm bringing up the rear when the other hunter's .375 booms. I fully expected to see a bull buff in the dirt, but it was a wildebeest who was probably wondering what was causing all the excitement.

We got chased by an juvenile elephant, twice on consecutive evenings - you wouldn't believe so much noise could come out of one animal. We saw lions, we set a leopard bait, but nothing hit it. We were almost run over by a hippo when driving back to camp in the dark. My wife was in the front with the driver (no doors or roof on the Land Cruiser) and she could feel it's breath on her hand.

Even if no shooting opportunities had been available, the experience was worth every penny - and it was quite a few pennies. Having the trophies home brings back a flood of memories, and the desire to return.
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Wow, I'm not sure I would be able to do that sort of hunting without depends.
 
Those skull mounts look fantastic! Is that the way they come in from the African company that dips and prepares them for shipping, or were they done by a taxidermist over there? I read on another thread that they come out of the crate from Africa all ready to stick onto a plaque, but these look too good to be true.
 
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