[PhilLozano]

I received this email from a friend of mine. A bit of reinforcement to confirm my choice as to "Who's # 1" !
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Rumours and speculation are rife amongst the Lowveld community on what transpired with the death of Carl Bradfield as a result of an elephant hunt that went terribly wrong on Wednesday 30th March 2005 in the Sengwe 2 hunting area. The purpose of this e mail, is to put this incident into it's proper perspective and we ask that anything contrary to this brief be put straight.

Carl Bradfield was conducting an elephant hunt with an American client and was 'spooring' two elephant when they came across one of the elephant in thick scrub. The distance between the hunting party and the elephant was approximately 20 mts.

Whilst C. Bradfield was 'glassing' the elephant to assess its suitability as a trophy, the wind changed direction, the elephant caught their scent and immediately started to charge the hunting party, upon which Carl Bradfield instructed his party to run (bombshell).

No shots were fired, nor were any shouts heard from Carl Bradfield by any member of the party.

Upon regrouping, the hunting party started searching the area for Carl Bradfield as he was not responding to their calls. They located Carl Bradfield and established that the elephant had caught and killed him, and had then left the area. Carl Bradfield had been 'tusked' once from the groin through to the chest cavity and stomped on.

This incident occurred at 07hr30.

On Thursday 31st March, 2005, at approximately mid-day, the National Parks Game Scout that had accompanied the hunting party along with the National Parks Warden from Mabalahuta, (according to National Parks Staff at Mabalahuta H.Q.) managed to track down the elephant responsible and destroyed it.

Speculation is rife as to what actually went wrong, no-one knows and never will.
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From this story, the Elephant(s) were unwounded.
Generally, Lion, Leopard and Buffalo will run off if they wind you.

I welcome your comments.

Best,
Phil