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    Got 2 15lbs tusks but I am keeping them for something special
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ryan81 View Post
    Got 2 15lbs tusks but I am keeping them for something special
    How sad a baby elephant
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    Quote Originally Posted by pixelfixed View Post
    How sad a baby elephant
    A dead one nevertheless ........
    Be careful how you treat people on your way up, you may meet them again on your way back down.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Splashone View Post
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JimmyHAD View Post
    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pixelfixed View Post
    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 ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by JimmyHAD View Post
    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.
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    We use a 458lott

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    Quote Originally Posted by pixelfixed View Post
    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.
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