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Watch that elephant kill again, they killed it with a spear. They are throwing at two targets. The eye and the base of the skull. Those spears are great heavy weapons with long long blades and they penetrated full length of the blade. As the elephant is moving around the haft flails around cutting and lacerating. When the kill spear come in you see the elephant stiffen and two more spears come in and the elephant topples. why would beleive other wise, thes people killed elephant for a long time before guns came on the scene. The only wild throws I saw were at the buffalo herd and even then that was destorted by the long lens. Misses yes, but wild I don't think so.

In Elaine Krige's book on the Zulu Culture she talks about hunting in this manner by the Zulu. The spear they used to hunt buffalo was great wide blade that was tossed at the back ham. Then as the animal ran the haft flopped around and drug and cut down through the ham and finally cutting the ham string.

The spear the Zulu's used for elephant had a blade about the size of a thumbnail and was poisoned.

The Zulu's had a great ritual in the hunt. With a hunt master. The Huntmaster determined who got the first hit and thus who either got a choice cut of meat or the whole animal.

Remember these guy didn't go to Westley Richards for a .450DR...they went to Sizwe the tool maker and got a blade and took it to Thula the spear maker. They use this method of hunting long before guns came on the scene. Their method of killing was not as efficient as ours but they got it done.

I'm not sure I have the cajones to take on a herd of buffalo, let alone an elephant with just a spear.

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DD, Ret.

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