Call The Shot Elephant

[HankBuck]

This bull is charging and at 10 feet you have enough time to raise your barrel and fire. No time to think. Where do you aim.View attachment 619396

@Altitude sickness - You create a real dilemma if the Elephant is only 10 feet away AND already charging….does it really matter where I aim ? (I’m already DEAD) Might as well save the ammo for my heirs…since the rifle will be crushed

 

[SStomcat]

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Blue will not even phase it! It might turn it. This would be the shot to take to try desperately to get it to stop charging without killing it (e.g. accidental elephant charge while hunting buffalo), but if this does not work and it is close and truly coming, you are about dead...

Red, above the eyes, and just above the upper end of the zygomatic arches, will maybe graze the top of the brain, especially with a shot angling up, but more probably go just over it. A 9.3, .375 or even .416 will probably not knock it down, but a .500, .470 or .458 Lott will most likely drop it but not kill it. You have about 5 to 10 seconds to run sideways and put another one in the top of its head or a couple behind its shoulder.

I would go a little lower than discussed so far because its head is held up; the shot is angling up; indeed "when in doubt aim low" (attributed to Richard Harland in modern days, but he could have just repeated it from older hands, and in any case advised by Charlton McCallum in his videos) and they do not mean 1" low but 4" low - it is an elephant after all; and the shot is still in line with the zygomatic arches.


PS: red would work if it is coming for you from below, e.g. it is in a shallow river bottom and you are on the bank 4 to 6 ft higher than it.

If I can add, a proper solid like Woodleigh Hydrostatically Stabilised, North Fork CPS, or Swift Breakway in a 9.3, 375, or 416 would do more damage when hit in the Red spot due to the cavity and wound channel it creates. May even kill it, IMHO

 

[SStomcat]

This bull is charging and at 10 feet you have enough time to raise your barrel and fire. No time to think. Where do you aim.View attachment 619396

At 10 feet, I will shoot on the 2nd wrinkle or line below the red dot, or maybe between the first and 2nd crease line below: I have no no Elephant hunting experience, just theoretical knowledge of the anatomy of the African elephant's brain location.

 

[M70375!]

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Blue will not even phase it! It might turn it. This would be the shot to take to try desperately to get it to stop charging without killing it (e.g. accidental elephant charge while hunting buffalo), but if this does not work and it is close and truly coming, you are about dead...

Red, above the eyes, and just above the upper end of the zygomatic arches, will maybe graze the top of the brain, especially with a shot angling up, but more probably go just over it. A 9.3, .375 or even .416 will probably not knock it down, but a .500, .470 or .458 Lott will most likely drop it but not kill it. You have about 5 to 10 seconds to run sideways and put another one in the top of its head or a couple behind its shoulder.

I would go a little lower than discussed so far because its head is held up; the shot is angling up; indeed "when in doubt aim low" (attributed to Richard Harland in modern days, but he could have just repeated it from older hands, and in any case advised by Charlton McCallum in his videos) and they do not mean 1" low but 4" low - it is an elephant after all; and the shot is still in line with the zygomatic arches.


PS: red would work if it is coming for you from below, e.g. it is in a shallow river bottom and you are on the bank 4 to 6 ft higher than it.

I think you are right on