Call The Shot Elephant

[Altitude sickness]

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.

 

[WAB]

The crease below the red dot.

 

[SRvet]

Red dot would be it for me, level with the zygomatic arches

 

[Surgeon1]

2" below red dot

 

[sureshot375]

Below red. When in doubt aim low.

 

[VertigoBE]

If I’m not mistaken, the brain is on the level of the red dot, but since at 10yards (on flat terrain) you will be shooting upwards, I would aim for the crease below.

 

[Mtn_Infantry]

Little below the red dot

 

[GWB]

If you shoot from the height the picture was taken shoot red, from 10yards on the same level as the elephant I would shoot below the red dot!

 

[mikesheree]

At 10 feet it is essentially “on top of you” and you are essentially “pointing way up so you need to enter way below the transverse lie of the brain and have the trajectory go way up and back at a rather sharp angle.

 

[One Day...]

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.

 

[Malambo]

I know a case where the elephant was coming in, too close and no time to aim, the shot did not bring him down, but it make him turn

 

[Rare Breed]

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

Red is still a little high given the head position. I would shoot two inches under the red to catch the brain

 

[Rare Breed]

View attachment 629508

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 would shoot between the red and the green…good call!!!

 

[wolfhunter]

I like this info I have never shot at a elephant yet.

 

[CZDiesel]

Red dot out of the two but yes a little lower than that is perfect

 

[Rule 303]

The dot from the aimpoint on the first crease below the red. Hopefully at that range I would still be thinking clearly.

 

[BryceM]

No higher than red. Probably a bit below depending on head angle, elevation, etc. At 10 feet you better be moving back as you shoot. Even if you brain it, you could end up under the head.

 

[Rare Breed]

View attachment 629508

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.

perfect!!!!!

 

[Jj6119]

I pray that I’d never have to face this dilemma, but I would try and shoot 2- 4 inches below the red dot. Am I wrong???

 

[Hunter-Habib]

Neither. Both are two high. Under the red dot.