Watched an interesting hunt this morning on "Tracks Across Africa"...gun nut carrying a 700 Nitro double...first shot was, per their estimate, 5 yards or less, at the shot the bull spun---another shot, bull kept running..everyone opened up..think there was about 5 shots after that into the north end of the south bound bull..finally slowed and tipped over after running more than a little bit...

The thought that come to mind was the argument by many, as well as the Taylor KO theory that even if you are close with a .577 or larger, it will knock them (elephant) out...you would never tell it by watching this footage...this is the second one I have seen or read about in the past year where that was indeed NOT the case...

Just interesting to observe I guess...but don't buy the theory at this point...think it has some validity but not much...IMHO...

Ripp