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Will
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Re: elephant hunting with the .375hh
27/10/03 12:01 PM

It is entertaining to discuss (argure about?) this but the original post was about the .375 for elephant.

It would be different if both of us had extensive experience, but that would require hundreds of elephants (or buff, or whatever). All I know is what I have gathered from my limited experience, and do not feel from what I have seen that the .375 H&H is enough gun. I have had reasonably good results with the 416&470&Lott, but consider the 416 the minimum.

It is said in some book that I do not recall at the moment that, in the jess, not a single hunter, hunting by himself, shooting a .375 (in Zimbabwe I think) survived an elephant charge. This is because you cannot see them coming in the jess except at the last moment. The hunter survivability using the 416/458 stuff is about 50 percent.

And if that isn't enough to convince anybody to use enough gun, I don't know what is.

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Subject	Posted by	Posted on
elephant hunting with the .375hh	gryphon	27/09/03 04:45 PM
Re: elephant hunting with the .375hh	mikeh416Rigby	07/10/03 08:28 AM
Re: elephant hunting with the .375hh	NitroX	30/09/03 01:54 AM
Re: elephant hunting with the .375hh	Will	25/10/03 02:15 PM
Re: elephant hunting with the .375hh	iqbal	26/10/03 08:44 PM
Re: elephant hunting with the .375hh	Will	26/10/03 11:28 PM
Re: elephant hunting with the .375hh	iqbal	28/10/03 05:33 AM
Re: elephant hunting with the .375hh	shakari	27/10/03 01:23 AM
Re: elephant hunting with the .375hh	mikeh416Rigby	27/10/03 01:57 AM
Re: elephant hunting with the .375hh	Will	27/10/03 07:01 AM
Re: elephant hunting with the .375hh	mikeh416Rigby	27/10/03 08:22 AM
Re: elephant hunting with the .375hh	Will	27/10/03 12:01 PM
Re: elephant hunting with the .375hh	shakari	27/10/03 06:49 PM
Re: elephant hunting with the .375hh	Will	27/10/03 10:01 PM
Re: elephant hunting with the .375hh	shakari	25/10/03 04:20 PM
Re: elephant hunting with the .375hh	Will	25/10/03 10:50 PM
Re: elephant hunting with the .375hh	shakari	25/10/03 11:56 PM
Re: elephant hunting with the .375hh	Will	26/10/03 05:52 AM
Re: elephant hunting with the .375hh	shakari	26/10/03 07:23 AM
Re: elephant hunting with the .375hh	gryphon	30/09/03 04:56 AM
Re: elephant hunting with the .375hh	AspenHill	01/10/03 03:41 AM

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