For me its the whole range of emotions from excitement to determination to fear...I am totally alive and focused and every second is critical. Whether I take a shot or not, even after the imediate emotions have ebbed a real high remains.

Elephants, close and in the thick stuff, do it all for me. Dry mouth, definite fear, huge adrenelin. The need to concentrate while not loosing perspective, the knowledge that you could end it by backing out but the imperitive to push forward. I've only hunted two tuskless, but if the experience is consistant as I hunt more elephants, I will have to hunt elephants til I'm no longer able.

When it comes to the meek, the over civilized, the anti hunters, I think Shakiri's response is on the mark.

JPK