I found a movie clip of someone shooting an elephant with a bow and what I believe is an eventual kill with a rifle from the PH. I believe that the PH shot the charging elephant with the rifle at his hip but I’m not sure…

Click on the below website:
http://www.livehunt.com/mediaplayer/mediaplayer.php

Once on the website (You DO NOT need a username and password):

1) In Video Category box, select “African Safarisâ€
2) In Sub Category box, select “Zimbabwe Wildlife Safarisâ€

Click on the second piciture with the elephant (Zimbabwe Safaris presents the Best Hunts of 2004 Part 1 of 6) and watch the movie (the elephant with bow and the eventual rifle kill starts at about 108 seconds). The end of the movie shows several slow motions of the elephant kill.

Video clip of killing elephant with spears:

1) While you’re in the Video Category box of “African Safaris,â€in the Sub Category box, select “McCann Huntsâ€
2) Click on the third picture of the elephant with his ears spread out (Bryan and Bobbie McCann’s Hunting Adventures in Africa Part 2 of 5, spear hunting) and watch the movie.

While you’re on the same page, you should look at the other movie clips, there are crazy clips.

For bow hunters, there are a lot of video clips of bowhunting kills in Africa under the Video Category of “African Safaris†and selecting any of the Sub Categories.

Very intersting videos ,althoug i dindt operate in Africa i believe the bow isn an adecuate form of hunting for such a noble animal and this video demostrate this ,i have had in the past numerous troubles trying to kill buffalos in real wild lands with bow i cannot imagine the problems of this poor PH ,i must say that i hunt mostly hogs with bow and i respect a lot bowhunters but certain animals deserve a good heavy rifle .Juan Pablo Pozzi

Bongo Congo, very interesting site, thanks. I believe the elephant was killed by the white-haired rifleman to the bowhunter's initial left side, who was still watching and whistled to the PH and the bowhunter as both the bowhunter and the PH turned to walk toward the rear.

That's the first time I've ever seen a bow shot and immediate chase.

I do not understand why they pushed the elephant. I have zero African experience, but I have never seen anyone push an animal after the shot.

GTR

maybe because the elephant hunt costs over 20 grand while a wight tail hunt must cost a little less.

That's Pete Shepley (of PSE) shooting the bow (with a 500NE on his back) and the PH is Gordon Duncan of Shangaan Hunters www.shangaanhunters.com

The events did not unfold as quickly as you would believe from watching the short clips spliced together.

The white-haired man is Ron Oliver... who also shot but it wasn't his shot that got the ele.

new-guy, now you're making this intriguing.

Bongoconga,

Thanks for the link,i really enjoyed watching the videos.


Hamdeni

BongoCongo thanks for the link, I'm not a bowhunter but I enjoyed the Africa videos. Lots of diversity at that site, that spear clip with the bull ele facing them trying to make up his mind if he would stomp the little men or not was awesome, that took guts even if the man beside him did have a rifle.

One guy gets off on bouncing rubber tipped arrows off animals.

There are some exiting green hunts as well, I might would actually consider a hunt like that.

The scene where they're dragging the live croc out of the water was a waste of time and energy, me I would have just shot the bloom'n thing.

In one of the SA videos you can see a car going down the highway from the blind.

Some good footage all and all, anyone know where more sites like this are?

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Originally posted by SGraves155:
new-guy, now you're making this intriguing.

Sorry, didn’t mean for my reply to sound conspicuous. There’s nothing fishy going on in the hunt, I was just pointing out that the entire series of events didn’t unfold in the 2 minutes of video as shown.

The tactics seemed to be drawing questions here, and I was just pointing that out that the clips as shown were the abbreviated “highlights†of the hunt and not the entire hunt.

I think the hunt was aired on PSE's hunting show. You might check their website for schedules or video to see more of the hunt.

3 days of hard tracking between first arrow and gordon having to stop that charge. Pete and gordon tried everything possible on that last evening to manouver for a bow kill. Hopefully ron will post- he had a facinating rifle with the sights held on with duck Tape

OT from the African footage, but anyone see the black bear skewering from above at the end of the spearing segment? Ouch. Wonder why they included that; sure didn't look like a fatal hit to me, rather, more like mostly hide and just a wee bit of muscle. As far as I could tell, the spear shaft ripped out through the skin before the beast scampered off.

The bawling was a bit unpleasant to hear, but at least now I know where they got the sound bites for Chewbacca of Star Wars fame...