Re: Africa's Giant Tuskers
Posted: Wed May 04, 2016 10:32 am
It sure looks enormous 
Would look much better attached to an elephant 
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Re: Africa's Giant Tuskers
Posted: Wed May 04, 2016 10:33 am
Sad to think of the gentle giant that belonged to.
Re: Africa's Giant Tuskers
Posted: Wed May 04, 2016 12:46 pm
OK - let us now rationalize about enormous tusks like the one on the photo above.
1) Should he die naturally in Kenya, his tusks will end up in one or another ivory burn.
2) Should the tusk be confiscated from a poacher in Kenya, it will end up in one or another ivory burn.
3) Should the tusk have originated from South Africa ( pick-up from a carcass or confiscated from a poacher ), it will end up in one or another ivory sale where of recent, the ivory was bought by Chinese business men and it will become shiny white trinkets, just the Hong Kong port police would have been by-passed.
4) Should the tusk have been confiscated in any of the other African countries with elephant populations ? ?
5) Now that this tusk was confiscated in Hong Kong, it will most likely be crushed into gravel size pellets and discarded - Asian countries seem to follow this method.
The only constant to the outcome of such large tusks is that it will quickly disappear into oblivion and absolutely no remembrance will remain of tusk and elephant.
Some-thing is not right - where is all this anti-poaching drives taking us really ?
Are we fighting about who destroys/burn it ?
Or who sells it ?
What about hunting trophies ? Those trophy tusks get preserved and often together with the shoulder mount - those elephant are the ones remembered. . . .
Comments ?
1) Should he die naturally in Kenya, his tusks will end up in one or another ivory burn.
2) Should the tusk be confiscated from a poacher in Kenya, it will end up in one or another ivory burn.
3) Should the tusk have originated from South Africa ( pick-up from a carcass or confiscated from a poacher ), it will end up in one or another ivory sale where of recent, the ivory was bought by Chinese business men and it will become shiny white trinkets, just the Hong Kong port police would have been by-passed.
4) Should the tusk have been confiscated in any of the other African countries with elephant populations ? ?
5) Now that this tusk was confiscated in Hong Kong, it will most likely be crushed into gravel size pellets and discarded - Asian countries seem to follow this method.
The only constant to the outcome of such large tusks is that it will quickly disappear into oblivion and absolutely no remembrance will remain of tusk and elephant.
Some-thing is not right - where is all this anti-poaching drives taking us really ?
Are we fighting about who destroys/burn it ?
Or who sells it ?
What about hunting trophies ? Those trophy tusks get preserved and often together with the shoulder mount - those elephant are the ones remembered. . . .
Comments ?
Re: Africa's Giant Tuskers
Posted: Wed May 04, 2016 12:51 pm
I'l have to think for a moment.....and have lunch 
Re: Africa's Giant Tuskers
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2016 2:11 pm
OK, back to a current real life super tusker from Tsavo East in Kenya :-
Re: Africa's Giant Tuskers
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2016 2:15 pm
Nice pair of tusks 
Re: Africa's Giant Tuskers
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2016 2:45 pm
Wow what a nice tusker
Re: Africa's Giant Tuskers
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2016 9:11 am
Huge!
Re: Africa's Giant Tuskers
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2016 11:01 am
Wow, magnificent! 
Africa's Giant Tuskers
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2016 10:36 pm
Hi every-one - I found the below photo during a general internet search.
Very scanty info was available regarding the photo ( ie. no photographer name or mention of who the hunter was ), only a statement that the photo was of trophies from the Sudan and was made some-where approx. 1925.
The shorter thicker set certainly closely resembles the large set Harry Manners hunted in Mozambique and the Manners set is currently rated no. 4 in the world !
Very scanty info was available regarding the photo ( ie. no photographer name or mention of who the hunter was ), only a statement that the photo was of trophies from the Sudan and was made some-where approx. 1925.
The shorter thicker set certainly closely resembles the large set Harry Manners hunted in Mozambique and the Manners set is currently rated no. 4 in the world !