My experience in the north RSA where there was elephants , lions and leopards was visibility was quite poor in the elephant thorns, ground was quite flat and there weren't many, if any trees to hid or climb if you were attacked. Pretty much like jungle regrowth when i was in Venezuela. So the notion of getting much more than two shots off or running regardless of the uneveness under foot would have been a bad outcome. But that was just my own observation.