An amazing hunt. We saw more tuskless ele than I have ever seen, loads of buff and lions galore. Was so hot and dry through and many elephant and buffalo were dying every night. New lion kills every day, we saw lots of hyena, 1 leopard. Not a huge amount of plains game, but enough to keep to us happy. We must have seen 30 dagga boys and many herds of buff. I lost count of tuskless. JR’s Tuskless was shot on day 2 on a charge at 5 paces. Exciting stuff. We looked at lots of dagga boys, some 40” but lacked the qualities that JR was looking for. Day 6 we found the one. JR used his double and shot his buff at 32 yards in the chest. Perfect! Impala in the jesse proved to be tough, but a nice impala was taken on day 7. Day 9 MR took a great old buff with JR’s .458 Win Mag loaded with Nosler Partitions. What a great way to end the season with a great hunter and friend.

On the morning of day 1, we started with one decent ele track which came in and ended up going out and into Botswana. We soon picked up 3 other tracks, one being a 26” tract at 9am. We followed and found them, 3 more had joined them totaling 6 bulls at 10am. One ele was clearly a much larger bull, but was facing away from us so the tusks could not be seen. The others ranged from 25-40lbs. we then looped around and came up to them from the other side and after a quick glimpse of the big bull, which I judged to be around 60lbs I said to TC –“He’s a good bull, but it is the first day. So the choice is yours.” He asked what I though and I said he should shoot it. It didn’t take much convincing before he agreed. We moved up to 20 yards and TC go on the sticks and went for a side brain. It staggered to the shot but never went down. But after a couple of shoulder shots he went down after 70 yards. A beautiful ele and fortunately too, as he was still the biggest we saw by the end of the safari. We continued to look for eles and big buff for the rest of the hunt. We saw 42 mature ele bulls, a few of which were in the 50-55lbs class. Lots of cows and young bulls. We followed plenty of dagga boys which were well educated, but we had fun chasing them. No exceptional bulls except one young bull in a large herd of +/-46. We saw 2 bat eared foxes, civet cats, lioness, some big sable, roan and a fair amount of other plains game.

BD joined us to hunt an elephant bull. We looked at a number of bulls for 3 days. We came across a bull with one tusk which we decided to take. We spent a couple of days on the Zambezi River at Matombo camp and hunted crocodile. BD too an amazing 13.5ft croc. Great hunt to end the season.

I could not be more pleased with everything. Keith and his guys were great, very helpful and fun to be around. Camp and staff were great as well, excellent food and housing. All of my expectations were exceeded. Thanks everyone.