Recent content by M Whitley

I was able to get Jon Wilson from Double Nickle Taxidermy on the phone while I was there and he sent me instructions for the measurements and photos he would need. My Botswana ivory is going to him this week to build wall mount brackets. He has done some great work with custom ivory mounts.

Correct, not importable. I am going to have replicas made for this ivory.

Sixty-one days and zero bugs. Clearly the ants and mopane flies knew they weren't qualified to bother a hunter of your caliber. Unfortunately, I'm not there yet!

My first forest elephant, it is intense. When I could see the head clear enough for a frontal he was about 10 yards.

We saw several different gorilla in the road over the 14 days, two big males were sighted. This one stood for a picture. I asked the Pygmy trackers whether 100 men could beat a gorilla in a fight... The eye roll required no translation.

My first safari in the forest so no personal experience but everyone in the camps confirmed what you're saying about the drought. We had only 2-3 good rains the 14 days I was there, very few animals moving. Salt licks dry almost everywhere.

14 days of “luxury,” plus travel. By day three, luxury meant dry socks and not being bitten by anything medically expensive.

Well, I still owe this community several full hunt reports; big ivory, old lions, and enough unfinished stories to make me look either busy or unreliable. Probably both. In April 2026, we headed into the Cameroon forest with one main objective: bongo. Nathan at @BULLET SAFARIS once again...