Zim PH, Butch Coaton, and I had worked together on some solid plans this trip to take nyati on Roger Whittall’s, Humani Ranch in southeast Zimbabwe, with me carrying my Sako 85L in .375HH mag with a Trijicon 1-4X. However, taking some plains game was enough.
On Day 8, we planned to check the tracks of the “Magnificent 7”, as I thought of them, an elusive group of old bulls we had been pursuing all week. Instead, we went south on Humani after picking up Jaie, a young, hot-shot tracker, Mazondi, Butch’s tried and true man, and Absalom, the more senior tracker, who had spotted a tuskless elephant for me two years ago, in Zim’s northern Dande province. Off we went at 5:45 a.m. and by 6:10 a.m. we were in the field having crossed tracks of five Dagga Boys.
We stopped the truck, readied our kits and checked our weapons. I routinely put four rounds in the .375 (holds 4+1), usually a Barnes Triple-Shock soft on top of three 300-grain Hornady monolithic solids. I had taken two other
