Broadside, you must be quite hunter to take an elephant like that with a bow! It takes guts, and, I am sure a lot of skill and practice. I respect your hunting skills, nerve and dedication to the sport. That said, I don't think I would shoot an elephant, unless it was a habitual rogue that was endangering people. I’ve seen too many documentaries about elephants’ intelligence, amazing long term memory and affectionate nature: (greeting other elephant friends that have been separated for a decade or more and they immediately recognize each other, the long and very ritualized “elephant funerals” when a member of the herd dies, mother elephants revisiting sites where one of their young died during a migration and pausing and swaying for up to half an hour on the spot for years after the death, dozens of miles away from “home”). For me, it would be like shooting a dog or a monkey or ape, etc. I would only shoot them if they were rabid or some other kind of menace. But that’s just me. You have the right to shoot what you want, as long as it’s not a human being or belongs to someone else. Congrats on the nice trophy.