Hunting Elephant

Harrison E

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anyone with experience hunting elephant id like to ask you some questions on where you did your hunt, did you see many elephant, what rifle you would recommend, rough prices to hunt, general overall experience, and would you do it again if you had the chance

thanks
 
Harrison,

I have hunted elephant three times. All of my elephant hunts were in Zimbabwe, two in the Omay and one on the Save. Each hunt I saw numerous (far in excess of 100) elephants.

My recommendation for rifle would be 416 Remington/Rigby-458 Win/Lott class rifle. 375 H&H will work OK, 404 Jeff is a great round. I hunt with a 470 Nitro Double.

Prices range from $15,000 up to $50,000 depending on area. A good trophy elephant hunt can be enjoyed in Zimbabwe for $25,000.00. A tuskless female can be hunted for $15,000 or less. This does not include airfare. The only issue with elephant trophy hunting in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Tanzania is the US does not currently allow for importation of ivory from these countries. Other countries allow for no ivory, some allow ivory to be imported from just about anywhere.

The hunts I have done were all for tuskless cows. It is a great experience. You are in close contact in the herds and it can become very exciting. There is also lots of tracking and failed stalks. I will hunt elephant again, no doubt. If the USF&W lifts the ivory import ban in Zimbabwe I will book a trophy elephant that day.
 
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thanks mike for the information. however about what you said about the ivroy hunting ban into the us im not from the us im from australia
 
I'd love to do a non trophy elephant hunt with my bow
As the only part of an elephant hunt we can bring home to Australia is photos and the memory of the adveture
 
Would love to do one of these as well. In fact it is really what I want to do next. I have the rifle in 416 so now it's saving the coins to get it done.
 
being that i cant bring home ivory (complete BS!) i plan to do a tuskless hunt one of these years.

as for cartridge, i imagine just about any of the 416's or bigger would be great choices. after talking to a number of elephant hunters i think i would leave the 375's and the 450/400 for buffalo (but im told they will work).

-matt
 
thanks bluey how was your hunt with Roy Wormald. you had just finished your hunt as dad and myself started ours
 
our hunt was something that will be really hard to top , mate
say gday to your old man for me .....
is an ele on you and scotts horizon ?
 
i dont think and elephant is on dads horizon although id like to see him take one
 
I rekon you could talk him into it , mate..
 
I just came back from Zim where shot two tuskless (could have shot more at $3K a pop). I used a .500 shooting 500gr solids at 2350 fps. The cost was $16.5K including everything (daily rates, taxes, dip n pack) not counting tips which was another $1.5K or so.

I will be doing it again, looking to do a lion and a trophy bull next Spring.
 
Tanks,
Two questions. Who was your outfitter? What can you bring back from the animal? Are you in the US?
 
Tanks,
What area did you hunt and how many days?
 
The outfit was Tshabezi Safaris, a ten day hunt at Gokwe South. It is a Campfire district so the hunt was done at night on crop raiders. My next hunt for a trophy bull will be done during daytime.

I will be bringing all the skin of the elephants I shot. I am having tanning done locally, and having 4 stools from the front legs made and two wastebaskets, an umbrella stand and an ice bucket made from the rear legs.

Now, due to USF&W ban I am exporting the skins to my vacation home in Europe rather than the States.
 
Nice! Great you have an option to export to.
 
holy cow Tanks, $16.5k for two elephants isnt bad at all! gonna have to start saving up after my Buff hunt next year.

-matt
 
I killed my Elephant at Mthimkulu in South Africa. I saw thirty or so Bulls a day. I used a Verney/Carron 470NE. Wonderfull place with great Elephant and even better Buffalo. A bit pricey but well worth it in my opinion.

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Mike 70560,
No elephants Parts can be imported to the US from Tanzania & Zimbabwe.
The Elephant can be imported from Mozambique it's the Hippo that can not be imported.
 
When did USFW start allowing Elephant imports from Moz?
 

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