A HUGE success
07-05-2005, 05:38 PM
#11
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Fulton county IL USA
Posts: 4,271
RE: A HUGE success
A trophy class Bullwould truly be one awesome sized critter!!! It would be interesting to see b-head/arrow performance in a WALL of hide, muscle and bone! For $30,000 though.... I'll pass!!!
07-05-2005, 05:51 PM
#12
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: NY
Posts: 4,668
RE: A HUGE success
ORIGINAL: nodog
Sell it, eat it, use it for bait. There are a lot of hungry people there, some will even come at the sound of shots to try and take it. You live like a king while your there. There is nothing like what they can do with that meat.
ORIGINAL: atlasman
So what happens to all the meat?
ORIGINAL: nodog
None, just what you eat there. The ship the head and hide back. That bow also needs a heavy arrow, it's an arrow inside of an arrow around 800 grains.
ORIGINAL: atlasman
How much meat did he get?
How much meat did he get?
07-05-2005, 06:52 PM
#13
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Fairbanks, AK
Posts: 3,132
RE: A HUGE success
That would be awesome to see an arrow take down an elephant. Just the sheer size of the elephant would be an awesome sight, let alone watching a 800 grain arrow drop that. I wonder how fast the kill is, or even if it was done with one shot. That's definately a once in a life time experience.
07-06-2005, 12:14 AM
#16
Nontypical Buck
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Idaho
Posts: 2,072
RE: A HUGE success
The guy was telling me that the guide yelled a bunch of hulla bulla at the nearby town and the people ran 8 miles to the site. The elephant had gone down with one shot. He was telling me that 50% of the elephants need to be reshot again. The locals showed up with machetes and loaded the meat into 5 gal buckets and carried them away on their heads. He ate elephant and eggs the next day. The hippo went to the locals also. I guess that there was nothing left but bones at the end of the day.
07-06-2005, 05:30 AM
#17
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Lehigh County PA USA
Posts: 12,157
RE: A HUGE success
That sounds very interesting and similar to a conversation I had with a customer last summer. He was determined to shoot a heavy draw weight bow. At the time he was shooting a 90 or 100 pound Bowtech Sampson but he was looking to get a 110 pound PSE made up by their specialty shop. I believe he was heading to africa as well but I think he was after Cape Buffalo. He wasn't quite as time-challenged as the gentleman you mentioned but he wasn't a spring chicken either.
07-06-2005, 07:30 AM
#18
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: fayette county, Il
Posts: 691
RE: A HUGE success
Its probably not true of this hunt but...
On a couple different shows they have showed an elephant hunt. On all the ones I have seen as soon as the hunter shoots the elephant with his bow, the guides open fire on the elephant with agun. The hunter then came on tv saying that even though it was a killing shot from his bow, they shoot it with guns because it could take up to a couple hours for the elephant to die.
On a couple different shows they have showed an elephant hunt. On all the ones I have seen as soon as the hunter shoots the elephant with his bow, the guides open fire on the elephant with agun. The hunter then came on tv saying that even though it was a killing shot from his bow, they shoot it with guns because it could take up to a couple hours for the elephant to die.
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