#13 - Small Game Hunting? Don't Leave TheTruck Without Your Dangerous Game Rifle!

From AccurateReloading.com:

"For those of you who might know or have hunted with Pete Fick of Mokore Safaris, his tracker of many years Jorrum was killed recently by an elephant. Apparently got caught out in the open without the .375 he normally carried. Pete is taking it very hard and is setting up an educational fund to take care of Jorrum's children.....

....According to Pete's e-mail they had all left the truck to go after a warthog taking only a 30-06. When they were about 200 yards from the truck this bull winded them and charged. Pete took the 30-06 and told the rest including Jorrum to run back to the truck he got by a tree and waited until the bull was about 60 yards out and still coming for him and fired over his head the bull stopped for a few seconds then continued his charge. Pete shot the bull in the face at about 10 yards with the 30-06 and turned it. Then the bull ran off to the left and whereas the rest had continued on to the truck Jorrum apparently had stopped at the edge of the clearing to to watch Pete and the bull. The bull picked up Jorrum scent and turned and ran him down and killed him. In the two weeks we hunted together in 2004 he always carried his .375 but not this time. Tragic. In the future I know I will not leave the truck without at least one heavy rifle in the group. They hunted for the bull that afternoon and the next day but the last I heard they had not found him yet...."
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Note: Bell killing elephants with a 7X57 is commonly the smallbore enthusiastsfavorite crutch,and here we havea 30-06 (even more powerful), I'mthinking his 375 H&H that was back in the truck was looking more attractive by the minute.