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16 November 2007, 13:25

mouse93

Elephant shot with double

Nice shot

16 November 2007, 13:56

Bryan Chick

Hell, Mouse, with my antiquated equipment I could not see the pic.

16 November 2007, 14:34

mouse93

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:

16 November 2007, 15:08

375 fanatic

nice shot now the fun starts i wonder how long it took to get the trophy out of there

16 November 2007, 16:08

Will

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.

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16 November 2007, 16:44

Bryan Chick

Mouse:
Thanks, was that your elephant?

16 November 2007, 16:57

mouse93

wish I wish - no not mine - haven't shot one nore intend to - so far

16 November 2007, 19:18

577NitroExpress

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.

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16 November 2007, 19:21

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16 November 2007, 19:35

BaxterB

Dont merkel's have the cocking indicator?

16 November 2007, 19:40

new_guy

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.

quote:
Originally posted by BaxterB:
Dont merkel's have the cocking indicator?

They do, but they are on the sides of the action. The HEYM's are on top, in your line of sight.

16 November 2007, 21:58

Jim Z.

Sweet.

16 November 2007, 22:28

500grains

Pretty cool!

17 November 2007, 01:03

MacD37

quote:
Originally posted by 577NitroExpress:
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.

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!

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17 November 2007, 01:35

yukon delta

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?

17 November 2007, 06:21

Will

Oops. Yeah, a Heym.