Sounds just like the article Col. Boddington wrote for Guns & Ammo this issue. Seems he'sin a bit of a quandaryafterwitnessing first handtwo elephants shrug off a .577 Nitro Expresson frontal brain shots. Yet the old reliable but small 7x57 Mauser, the personal favorite of legendary elephant hunter "Karamoja" Bell,did the job on a water buffalo. You just can't beat good ole penetration power. And the right bulletneedn't a magnumtitle to accomplish that.