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Will
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Re: In a charge, how close before you fire?
13/02/08 01:05 AM

There are no hard and fast rules about charges. In my limited experience, I could tell when the elephant were serious.

It is best if you can wait until they are close, maybe five yards. Though the brain shot is nice, a good frontal heart shot will probaly stop them too.

Hitting the brain on a frontal shot on elephant is tougher to get done than imagined, especially in a charge. When they are close, their head is down and the tendency/instinct is to shoot too low.

One can Monday-morning-quarterback charges after the fact, but I would guess that without tons of experience in charges it is mostly a crap shoot. Sometimes you get lucky. I used to dream about it all the time. Maybe that helps!

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Edited by Will (13/02/08 01:17 AM)

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In a charge, how close before you fire?	LGF	08/02/08 06:33 PM
Re: In a charge, how close before you fire?	Will	13/02/08 01:05 AM
Re: In a charge, how close before you fire?	Anonymous	09/02/08 04:06 AM
Re: In a charge, how close before you fire?	NE450No2	09/02/08 11:18 AM
Re: In a charge, how close before you fire?	LGF	09/02/08 05:30 PM
Re: In a charge, how close before you fire?	Ripp	10/02/08 03:26 AM
Re: In a charge, how close before you fire?	hoppdoc	10/02/08 10:31 AM
Re: In a charge, how close before you fire?	JPK	10/02/08 12:46 PM
Re: In a charge, how close before you fire?	NitroX	10/02/08 02:36 PM
Re: In a charge, how close before you fire?	NE450No2	10/02/08 03:57 PM
Re: In a charge, how close before you fire?	JPK	10/02/08 05:34 PM
Re: In a charge, how close before you fire?	Ripp	11/02/08 03:17 PM
Re: In a charge, how close before you fire?	JPK	12/02/08 06:42 AM
Re: In a charge, how close before you fire?	Paul	12/02/08 06:32 PM
Re: In a charge, how close before you fire?	Ripp	13/02/08 02:02 AM
Re: In a charge, how close before you fire?	ozhunter	13/02/08 09:48 AM
Re: In a charge, how close before you fire?	Ripp	13/02/08 12:29 PM
Re: In a charge, how close before you fire?	93mouse	14/02/08 12:07 AM
Re: In a charge, how close before you fire?	NE450No2	11/02/08 06:52 PM
Re: In a charge, how close before you fire?	DDouble	12/02/08 05:19 AM
Re: In a charge, how close before you fire?	ozhunter	11/02/08 03:48 PM
Re: In a charge, how close before you fire?	NE450No2	11/02/08 01:39 PM
Re: In a charge, how close before you fire?	gator	09/02/08 11:13 AM

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