Thread: What material would you make your scales from?

Got 2 15lbs tusks but I am keeping them for something special

Originally Posted by Ryan81

Got 2 15lbs tusks but I am keeping them for something special

How sad a baby elephant

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

How sad a baby elephant

A dead one nevertheless ........

Originally Posted by Splashone

A current thread on the forum about bone being hard to find in 6" or longer lengths. Many are looking but not finding much...

I think my dad has a couple of giraffe hunts this year I can't ask for a couple.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

A dead one nevertheless ........

No Jim, the yearlings lose the tusks just like kids lose teeth you can just go out in the bush and pick them off the ground.
Biggest I ever had was 90lbs,world record (which I have seen in person) is 220 Kg for the pair.

could use the carbon fiber I got

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

No Jim, the yearlings lose the tusks just like kids lose teeth you can just go out in the bush and pick them off the ground.
Biggest I ever had was 90lbs,world record (which I have seen in person) is 220 Kg for the pair.

Wow, didn't know that Bill. Curious, what would a full grown tusk measure out to in length, and what would it weigh ........ on average ?

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Wow, didn't know that Bill. Curious, what would a full grown tusk measure out to in length, and what would it weigh ........ on average ?

Is no average but 70/100 lbs was the norm back in the days of big game hunting,They did not live that long,esp after Getting a .505 Gibbs express in the brainbox.

We use a 458lott

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

Is no average but 70/100 lbs was the norm back in the days of big game hunting,They did not live that long,esp after Getting a .505 Gibbs express in the brainbox.

I've read and re-read African Rifles And Cartridges, by John 'Pondoro' Taylor many times. Quite a book about the old pre-WWII days of ivory hunting in Africa. Not a hunter myself tho.