 Mark Hampton's Latest Adventure!
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Re: Mark Hampton's Latest Adventure
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Thanks Darrell! My wife and I just returned from an enjoyable experience in South Africa and Mozambique. We were looking for a few specific species not taken on previous trips. In South Africa we hunted with Murray Crous of Settlers Safaris. Murray and his wife did everything possible to make our hunt successful and rewarding. We took Barbary sheep, southern roan, copper springbuck, and genet.
I took two guns; XP in 308 Win. and Encore in 375 JDJ. Ammo; DoubleTap with 165 gr. Nosler AB for the .308 Win. Cor-Bon 375 JDJ ammo with their 270 gr. DPX. Both guns mounted with Leupold 2.5-8X scope.
After South Africa we headed to Mozambique with Zambeze Delta Safaris. This is wild Africa for sure. Lots of game, lots of adventure. The hippo was taken on the Zambezi River and it was quite the experience. Other game taken included suni, red duiker, Lichtenstein's hartebeest, and reedbuck.
Overall it was a great experience and I'm glad to share it with my wife.
Best of Hunting,
Mark Hampton
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10/22/2012 6:53 PM
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Congrats Mark! How much penetration did you get on the hippo with the Corbon 375JDJ load?
Experience is the best teacher, hunger good sauce.
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10/22/2012 6:56 PM
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I can't give you exact amount of inches as we were unable to recover the bullet. But it was significant. Thanks
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Excellent as always Mark!
Both of you look great.
Ernie the Un-Tactical 
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Thanks Ernie; we're both getting older!
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Congrats! Several great handgun tropheys.
It's not the gun, but the man behind it.
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Congrats Mark...Awesome trophies you took! Very Nice shooting!!
ONE SHOT - ONE KILL
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"A quiet hit in the right place is better than a loud miss in the wrong place followed by 10 more shots on the run"
I was a handgun hunter, when handgun wasn't cool.....
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10/22/2012 10:45 PM
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Great looking animals Mark. Congratulations!
Ken
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Thanks for all the kind words.
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Congrats, Mark! That's some beautiful trophies you've acquired. Thanks for sharing you hunts from abroad.
It takes 43 muscles to frown and 17 to smile, but only 3 for proper trigger squeeze.
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10/23/2012 12:34 AM
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Good hunting Mark. I can not imagine how wonderful a hunt like that would be like. Glad you get to enjoy it.
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10/23/2012 12:37 AM
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Fantastic! Congrats, Mark!
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10/23/2012 2:49 AM
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Congratulations Mark! Some more fantastic trophies...
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10/23/2012 3:03 AM
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wow, what an adventure you had! congratulations !
"If you are going to go through all the trouble to put a hole in something, why not make it a big one?"
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Once again Mark Hampton shows us hows it's done.
Congrats !
Don't confuse shooting with hunting.
Shooting is a game, hunting is a sport.
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Great animals and fantastic photos! I would expect nothing less.
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