ErikD, It's always good to practice,but until you experience an elephant charge to put the event in real terms,everything else is just play. I recommend you hunt other big game in ZW or MO in the Zambezi River Valley before hunting elephant. There are serval large groups and small family herds in the area. You can see how they react to man when babies are present or a lone bull. Female groups with babies have a warning zone and a kill zone. Some areas of the Zambezi Valley are so thick you cannot see five yards.In these conditions it's hard to know,with elephants screaming on three sides and you can't see any, what zone you are in. On alighter note,if you want to feel the charge of an elephant,stand on the traintracks with a train coming at you and do not raise your rifle until it is less then 20yards. In heavy dense areas, you think!!;you die!! jdb