There is no doubt that an elephant can be killed with a bow. But when Chuck Adams writes that after his experience with an archery elephant hunt that he would not do it again and that due to the angle of the elephant's ribs that it makes it difficult to get good penentration who am I to argue. His elephant was finished off with a gun also. Of all the hunters out there he is by far one of the most pro archery. If and I say if half of all bow shot elephants have to be finished off with a gun then it is not an ethical way to hunt them.