I was scrolling through my pics and clips from my November 06 hunt in Save with Shangaan's Gordon Duncan, looking at this clip I took with my photo camera. After dissecting the clip in seconds frame it turned out something like this (distance is estimated roughly and frames are taken inside 1 second margin)...

-3 seconds...get set



-2 seconds...ready



-1 second...steady



0 second...go - 50 meters



+1 second...speeding up - 40 meters



+2 seconds...speeding some more - 25 meters



+3 seconds...full speed - 15 meters



+4 seconds...reaching point of no return - 8 meters - Gordon fires .44 mag to the ground in front of the lady - no effect



+5 seconds...closing the gap - 4 meters - how about getting out of here - pedal to the medal...



+6 seconds...if truck wouldn't work - squash time

If all I had was a 44 mag and no truck in that situation I would just shoot myself.

Don't get fooled by their big bodies, they are much faster than one thinks.

Thanks for sharing

Pretty cool Mouse. Thanks for posting!

Why didn't you jump out of the Cruiser to take the photos?

Thanks for sharing.

NP guys, pleasure was all mine

Actually I am still celebrating a good idea by Brits to put a driver on the right side of the vehicle and was about to put a seatbelt on, just to deal with a fresh set of nappies later

Joke aside – I think I will never be able to look at elephants in any other way since – they are so inevitable - one indeed feels so puny, with nothing but a tiny bullet against them.