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Hell, Mouse, with my antiquated equipment I could not see the pic. | |||
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Sory - It is a video from You tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuF-HE7zFos&feature=related : 1. Aim (ele is on the slope - bit quartering - facing right)  2. Shot  3. Hit (looks like side brain - quartering - hind legs colapse first...)  4. Elephant start to roll down the slope allmost crushing another elephant standing on the slope beneath:  | |||
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nice shot now the fun starts i wonder how long it took to get the trophy out of there "Buy land they have stopped making it"- Mark Twain | |||
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Krieghoff with what looks like a Maglite rubber tube for the permanent muzzle carry w/o rubbing the bluing off. Good shot, assuming its dead and not just knocked out. ------------------------------- Will Stewart / Once you've been amongst them, there is no such thing as too much gun. --------------------------------------- and, God Bless John Wayne. NRA Benefactor Member, GOA, N.A.G.R. _________________________ "Elephant and Elephant Guns" $99 shipped “Hunting Africa's Dangerous Game" $20 shipped. red.dirt.elephant@gmail.com _________________________ Hoping to wind up where elephant hunters go. | |||
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Mouse: Thanks, was that your elephant? | |||
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 wish I wish - no not mine - haven't shot one nore intend to - so far  . | |||
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Looks like he shot the left barrel first if I look at the second photo correctly (the cocking indicator on the left barrel in depressed.) Do you think it is a Kreighoff? I thought Heym. 577NitroExpress Double Rifle Shooters Society Francotte .470 Nitro Express  If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming... | |||
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 577NitroExpress Double Rifle Shooters Society Francotte .470 Nitro Express If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming... | |||
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Dont merkel's have the cocking indicator? | |||
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Paul - you are correct. It is a HEYM 500 NE 3.25". (good eye on the cocking indicator  ).That is a neoprene sleeve on the barrels. Although it's out on the end of the barrels in the video, I assume he uses them as hand-guards. He hunts a lot of elephant.
They do, but they are on the sides of the action. The HEYM's are on top, in your line of sight. | |||
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Sweet. *we band of 45-70ers* Whiskey for my men & beer for my horses!  Malon Labe! | |||
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Pretty cool! | |||
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Good catch Paul! You are absolutely correct he did fire the left barrel first! There is no question the shot was good, for the distance, it looks like a brain shot, but could have been a right shoulder or hip letting the ele fall into the canyon. If it was a brain shot, he certainly has something to bragg about! ....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1 DRSS Charter member "If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982 Hands of Old Elmer Keith  | |||
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That was a great shot...hard to tell the distance but it wasn't real close...50 yards maybe? If that wasn't a head shot then that elephant is hurt pretty bad and the fall didn't help it.  Who is the hunter? _______________________________  | |||
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Oops. Yeah, a Heym. ------------------------------- Will Stewart / Once you've been amongst them, there is no such thing as too much gun. --------------------------------------- and, God Bless John Wayne. NRA Benefactor Member, GOA, N.A.G.R. _________________________ "Elephant and Elephant Guns" $99 shipped “Hunting Africa's Dangerous Game" $20 shipped. red.dirt.elephant@gmail.com _________________________ Hoping to wind up where elephant hunters go. | |||
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