TRACY HARDY SCORES BIG IN ARIZONA AND AFRICA
WITH HIS pse X-Force and mach-x

AFRICA- LEOPARD PSE X-FORCE

MULE DEER- ARIZONA PSE MACH-X

TRACY'S COUSIN- RIK MATTHEWS- ELAND IN AFRICA PSE X-FORCE

Tracy Hardy took a vacation from his contracting business in Arizona and returned to the Save Valley Conservancy in Zimbabwe to Hunt Leopard and Cape Buffalo. Tracy hunted plans game and crocodile on the conservancy in 2003 with PSE's Pete Shepley and Bob Jacobsen, and has been planning this trip ever since.

Tracy said, “The trip in August of 2007 was very special to me because I was able to include some of my closes friends and family. During my first trip I thought a lot about my family and hunting partners back in the U.S. and how much they would enjoy the adventure of Africa. The trip was planned as hunting trip for my cousins Bobby Stephens, Rik Matthews and friend Randy Gamble to replace our annual
elk hunting trip to Wyoming.”

The Senuko Safari Lodge is perfectly suited to accommodate the non- hunting members of the group so they were able to extend the adventure to their wives' and in Tracy's case his Father and niece as well. The non hunters of the group enjoyed their own photo safaris and sight seeing when they weren't sitting in blinds with one of the hunters.

Tracy collected his Leopard on the 5th night of the hunt while sitting zebra bait at a nerve racking 18 yards on a pitch black moonless night.

“It is absolutely mind boggling that a 150 pound cat can pass within 20 yards of your tree stand in the dead silence of night, jump 15 feet into a tree less than 60 feet away and you don't know thing about it until you hear the bones popping and the flesh tearing from the bait. Combine that with the constant threat of lions coming to the bait and you have the makings of one hair raising experience!”

Tracy took his leopard with the new X-Force set at 60 pounds. His buffalo and the other game taken by the group were shot with 70 pound X Force's.

Congratulations Tracy-
great job!