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The Elephant...The Kalahari.
Posted on Thursday, January 12 @ 13:36:27 PST
Topic: The Africa Chronicles

... raising heck, charging safari vehicles and causing a lot of troubles ...

... had faith that I could take down the elephant with my Pedersoli Double .45/70 rifle. Erik had just witnessed my taking a good hippo a few days earlier and on other safaris we had taken a lion and Cape buffalo with the same gun and Garrett Ammunition.

One problem was this bull was known for charging people and being very temperamental under the best of conditions.

When we located the bull, he needed to go down immediately!

.. "Don't back me up unless it becomes 100 percent necessary!"

We set off in hot pursuit on foot. Well in the heat of well over 100 degrees everything was hot, including our pursuit.

... under 30 yards for a side brain shot

... the last thing any of us wanted was 10 or 12 tons of P.O.'d pachyderm bearing down on us from short range!

... the Garrett bullet impacted with a puff of dust, I felt that I had pulled the shot ever so slightly, missing the brain just by an inch or so!

The bullet plowed a channel clear through the elephant's head; we could hear it whizzing through the air after it passed through three feet of elephant skull!

Amazingly, the bull just stood there, evidently stunned from the first shot. Firing the second barrel, that shot hit the mark and the bull dropped in his tracks!

Everyone was amazed at how well the .45/70 performed on such a huge and powerful animal. The bullets were simply amazing. I have taken lots of plains game, a lion, two Cape buffalo, and a hippo with this gun, but even I was unsure about the elephant. It was amazing how well it all went off. I'd like to thank Randy Garrett for making such an incredible bullet and helping me to fulfill my dream of taking an elephant with the .45/70.