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Hi, Just read and saw the photos from an elephant charge that Don Heath survived earlier this year in Mana Pools -it doesn't get any closer that this... Read and see the photos at: http://www.norma.cc/content.as...ik=Hunting%20stories Normas new 9,3mm Solids seems to perform quite well I must say -if one can shoot straight. | ||
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Damn, 9.3 on elephant! Peter. Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Be brave and upright, that God may love thee. Speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death. Safeguard the helpless and do no wrong; | |||
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I sure am thankful Don got out of this tight scrape. There are two little kids who need their Dad, as does his lovely wife need her husband. Makes a lot more impact on me when it is someone I personally know. Cheers, ~ Alan Life Member NRA Life Member SCI email: editorusa(@)africanxmag(dot)com African Expedition Magazine: http://www.africanxmag.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alan.p.bunn Twitter: http://twitter.com/EditorUSA Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. ~Keller To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. ~ Murrow | |||
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Alan: +1!  The broken arm tells you just how close it was! | |||
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Note to self if i ever get the chance to do something like that in my lifetime make sure i hire someone like Don. Wow, good to see it all worked out. | |||
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Damn! Don, I congratulate you for your coolness and good shooting. May your arm recover completely. Remind me to buy you a drink in Reno. Bill Quimby | |||
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great photos! | |||
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Wow, that was something! "There are worse memorials to a life well-lived than a pair of elephant tusks." Robert Ruark | |||
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Wonderful photos. Glad to see it all ended well. | |||
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WHEW! Glad you are OK, Don! | |||
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Actually I think Don said he was using a parks .416 rather than his double or 9.3. Anyone who claims the 30-06 is ineffective has either not tried one, or is unwittingly commenting on their own marksmanship Phil Shoemaker Alaska Master guide FAA Master pilot NRA Benefactor www.grizzlyskinsofalaska.com | |||
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WOW! Don! Awesome! Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | |||
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Close call  Good shooting is called upon + knowing the elephants anatomy saved Don in a tight spot. DRSS: HQ Scandinavia. Chapters in Sweden & Norway | |||
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Then he should quit using, and extolling the virtues of the 9.3! ------------------------------- Will / Once you've been amongst them, there is no such thing as too much gun. --------------------------------------- and, God Bless John Wayne. NRA Benefactor, GOA, NAGR _________________________ "Elephant and Elephant Guns" $99 shipped. “Hunting Africa's Dangerous Game" $20 shipped. red.dirt.elephant@gmail.com _________________________ If anything be of note, let it be he was once an elephant hunter, hoping to wind up where elephant hunters go. | |||
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It used to be the old faithful six yards, but after the limeys went metric I'm glad to see it is now six meters.  ------------------------------- Will / Once you've been amongst them, there is no such thing as too much gun. --------------------------------------- and, God Bless John Wayne. NRA Benefactor, GOA, NAGR _________________________ "Elephant and Elephant Guns" $99 shipped. “Hunting Africa's Dangerous Game" $20 shipped. red.dirt.elephant@gmail.com _________________________ If anything be of note, let it be he was once an elephant hunter, hoping to wind up where elephant hunters go. | |||
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Not just the limeys, also the entire rest of the world. What a difference 18 inches makes! Peter. Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Be brave and upright, that God may love thee. Speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death. Safeguard the helpless and do no wrong; | |||
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"It was a perfect brain shot and he went down instantly" Whoever was criticizing his use of the 9.3 didn't read the whole story. How much better can you get than instantly"? | |||
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Heard about that at the time. Lucky results from the encounter, good shot but still a bone broken. | |||
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Don survived ,very dangeorous situations in combat and hunting ,he is an incredible experienced operator of guns. By the way hes always armed ,did you notice his 41 mag in his belt ,HOW MANY PHS actually carry a secondary weapon....this speaks of his prepardness.Juan www.huntinginargentina.com.ar FULL PROFESSIONAL MEMBER OF IPHA INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL HUNTERS ASOCIATION . DSC PROFESSIONAL MEMBER DRSS--SCI NRA IDPA IPSC-FAT -argentine shooting federation cred number2- | |||
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Brass Balls there Mr. Don! glad you were ok. jorge USN (ret) DRSS Verney-Carron 450NE Cogswell & Harrison 375 Fl NE Sabatti Big Five 375 FL Magnum NE DSC Life Member NRA Life Member | |||
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COJONES!!!!! That man must walk bowlegged. | |||
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I am glad that everything has stayed in a fright and in a wound that for what it could have spent is a triviality. Congratulations to Don. Oscar. I am Spanish My forum:www.armaslargasdecaza.com | |||
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