What do you do when you're 80lb elephant is thinking about making an escape? Why the fat man shuffle of course! I'm so glad I dropped 50lbs, this is just not a good "look" for me.
See the link below - in this case would you prefer a scoped rifle, a double, or an open-sighted bolt as I have here?
Aaron Neilson Global Hunting Resources 303-619-2872: Cell globalhunts@aol.com www.huntghr.com
Just curious though. Why would you open the bolt and then appear to just drop the rifle to your side? Wouldn't it make sense to actually put another round in the chamber?
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Originally posted by Chuck Nelson: A scope sited bolt action rifle.
Just curious though. Why would you open the bolt and then appear to just drop the rifle to your side? Wouldn't it make sense to actually put another round in the chamber?
I rarely do things that make much sense Chuck, just ask "Wetibbe"!
Aaron Neilson Global Hunting Resources 303-619-2872: Cell globalhunts@aol.com www.huntghr.com
I rarely do things that make much sense Chuck, just ask "Wetibbe"!
HA! Love it.
Double with Docter red dot, and hit him twice, regardless of the reaction!
JEB Katy, TX
Already I was beginning to fall into the African way of thinking: That if you properly respect what you are after, and shoot it cleanly and on the animal's terrain, if you imprison in your mind all the wonder of the day from sky to smell to breeze to flowers—then you have not merely killed an animal. You have lent immortality to a beast you have killed because you loved him and wanted him forever so that you could always recapture the day - Robert Ruark
He dropped it to his side because his eyes and mind told him he stoned that old bull who immediately went "tusks in the dirt"!!! Beautiful old bull it appears Aaron. I'd actually like to see the follow up pics or video that show these bulls up close! He had a beautiful and long right tusk....
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Originally posted by Poyntman: He dropped it to his side because his eyes and mind told him he stoned that old bull who immediately went "tusks in the dirt"!!! Beautiful old bull it appears Aaron. I'd actually like to see the follow up pics or video that show these bulls up close! He had a beautiful and long right tusk....
Sir, your assessment is exactly correct.
Below is a link to the original report posted in Sept. 2011.
Very nice videos Aaron, man those tusks are beautiful. I would have gotten a heart attack seeing him sink that way into the ground, would have thought the tusks would break!
I shot a tuskless with a 416 Rem Mag. I shot just low of her brain and she slumped and recovered to run, it did not knock her of her feet. ThePH Frik Muller Jr. stuck her in the chest with his 450.It surprised me it did not at least knock her down.
Originally posted by dande_jack: I shot a tuskless with a 416 Rem Mag. I shot just low of her brain and she slumped and recovered to run, it did not knock her of her feet. ThePH Frik Muller Jr. stuck her in the chest with his 450.It surprised me it did not at least knock her down.
Dande Jack - I shot a cow frontal brain at 20 yards with a .600NE, missed the brain, and the cow did not even stumble!! She wheeled and was off in a flash, luckily I hit her at about 40 yards in the hip and she dropped at the shot. Now that really surprised me - but it didn't shock me if you know what I mean?
Aaron Neilson Global Hunting Resources 303-619-2872: Cell globalhunts@aol.com www.huntghr.com
Originally posted by ManuelM: Very nice videos Aaron, man those tusks are beautiful. I would have gotten a heart attack seeing him sink that way into the ground, would have thought the tusks would break!
Read something by Richard Harland recently in which he expressed a distaste for the brain shot for this very reason...having presumably seen more than a few nice teeth snap at the lip. I also think there was a good bull posted here in the last couple years that had snapped off at least one tusk after a brain shot. It might be the "elegant" way to get the job done, but I think I would rather not risk the loss of an animal or the breaking of a big tusk in the fall. I'll someday be a heart/lung shooter.
I'm re-reading The Hunting Imperative by Harland currently. He was a big advocate of the brain shot.
I was speaking of a recent FB conversation between he and others about a video that was circulating. Perhaps his opinion was particular to this large bull or the type of terrain in which it was shot, I don't know.
The bull of which I spoke, having missed the brain on a quartering away shot, but it brought him down. He was in very hilly country. As soon as he went down front legs first, my PH and I fired quickly into the heart/lung. He rolled one revolution and lodged on a tree. I shot again at the brisket straight on and the tree collapsed and he rolled the whole way down taking trees as he went. Didn't snap any tusks, although that was a concern before we reached him. It seemed like slow motion.
I'm so glad I dropped 50lbs, this is just not a good "look" for me. 
