FlyGuy
AH senior member
- Joined
- May 19, 2022
- Messages
- 85
- Reaction score
- 147
- Location
- South Africa
- Hunted
- South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Botswana
450 Rigby shooting a 500gr solid
What rifle, cartridge did you take your first Ele with?I've only hunted one elephant so far. If I ever got to hunt another, my "Ideal" would need to be practical and limited to what I have on hand for firearms.
So I'd pick my Merkel 140 AE double rifle chambered in .450-400 3" Nitro
My choices exactly! I'd take an 89B in 500 and a Martini in 416 as well haha. Inhave no basis on which to qualify these choices save all the books and articles I have read, as well as other media.Heym .89b .470 or Heym Martini mauser ,404J
Disconcerting………….. Understated, yet apt description.That didn't bother me until I had a wounded bull elephant on the ground at spitting distance and an empty rifle in my hands ... that was disconcerting!