Igbal,

Sorry about the PH getting killed. I didn't see your story. Can you point me in the right direction to find it?

I try to use the brain shot just because it is clean and efficient. The elephant feels no pain. It is quick and final.

Just to cover all the bases, few hunts are ever the same. The elephant is usually at some angle that doesn't present the best shot, and so forth. It has been said that a heart shot is more certain than risking the brain shot, but you have to find the heart just as one would have to find the brain.

It aggravates me to no end to read about the "shoulder shot", which supposedly takes out the heart, which is never explained. Taylor did that and a host of others continue to do it.

It is said that a heart shot elephant will run off in the direction it is headed, and hence be less of a danger than a missed brain shot, where the elephant may charge. I do not know that to be true as I have only taken two "chest" shots and unfortunately autopsies were not performed.

The one "chest" shot cow fell to the ground but got back up and ran in the opposite direction she had been standing. The other elephant cow I shot in the chest was charging already and it immediately turned at the frontal chest shot, running off for about a 100 yards before dying.

And knowing where the brain is may save your life.

I believe that no one knows what is going to happen 100% of the time. There have been a lot of experienced elephant hunters get killed, sooner or later.

The only thing I know for sure is that there is no such thing as too much gun.

And the .375 H&H doesn't even come close.