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  1. Victoria Falls Zimbabwe

    Victoria Falls Zimbabwe

  2. Victoria Falls Zimbabwe

    Victoria Falls Zimbabwe

  3. Bushbuck Hunting Zimbabwe

    Bushbuck Hunting Zimbabwe

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    ZIMBABWE: Elephant Hunt With Mbalabala Safaris

    Just to finish up... Day 5 we went to Hwange National Park. It was an excellent opportunity to view more of the plains game and elephants. Happy to report that there were a good number of young animals in the group. Day 6 we hiked through a valley that ran from a rock gorge with several...
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    ZIMBABWE: Elephant Hunt With Mbalabala Safaris

    Day 4... Elephant Recovery Because we had gotten the elephant late in the day, we waited until today to recover the elephant. The crew from camp left at 6am to have time to start cutting the road into the elephant. We left camp at 7am, after a good breakfast. They hadn't yet completed...
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    ZIMBABWE: Elephant Hunt With Mbalabala Safaris

    Kevin, the tusks were 25 and 27 pounds, respectively. They looked bigger because they were long and thin. I was shooting a Ruger Hawkeye African, in .416 Ruger. Hand-loaded, 400 grain, Cutting Edge Bullets Safari solids.
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    ZIMBABWE: Elephant Hunt With Mbalabala Safaris

    Day 3 of the hunt... Drove about 2 hours to a new hunting area. Once in the area, drove the dirt roads for about an hour looking for tracks. Saw several promising sets of tracks and were stopped by a local who said the elephants had been in his field the night before. We decided to go after...
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    ZIMBABWE: Elephant Hunt With Mbalabala Safaris

    The buffalo we had encountered were just by chance. I believe he does most of his buffalo hunting from his other camp.
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    ZIMBABWE: Elephant Hunt With Mbalabala Safaris

    Day 2 of hunting. Left camp at 6am heading to an area further out from camp. Almost ran over a herd of cattle sleeping in the middle of the road. You'd think they find a better place to sleep than the middle of the road. The area we went to was very hilly and rocky. About 10am we came...
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    ZIMBABWE: Elephant Hunt With Mbalabala Safaris

    The Hwange camp is along the Zambezi River below Victoria Falls with beautiful views. There are four open air chalets with en suite baths. There is a dining room, bar and sitting area in the main lodge. When we arrived there were three other hunters in camp, Scott, Mark and Michael...
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    ZIMBABWE: Elephant Hunt With Mbalabala Safaris

    Yes. that is Pierre helping to hold the fish
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    ZIMBABWE: Elephant Hunt With Mbalabala Safaris

    Lets try this again..
 
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