Girl takes down elephant with 83-lb bow

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[rickdylan]

Girl kills elephant with 83-lb bow

One of the more unusual stories I've seen on the archery forums recently...

[rickdylan]

Most 40 year old women can’t pull 80-lb bows either....

[D Rider]

And if this is Africa, now she’s going to jail.

Not really, African Elephants seem to only be endangered in countries where they are protected. Countries that have legal elephant hunting have plenty of them, and seem to be free of poachers also. Hunting is a management tool that helps keep the populations in check. Countries like Botswana have also used Government culling of herds, when hunters could not provide sufficient pressure on the herd populations.

[unspun]

Do you have some statistics you could post on the number of children that hunt becoming serial killers? /snip/ I’m looking forward to the stats you’ll provide.

And I'm looking forward to another post from you after you've actually read what I've written. You've sure gotten it wrong, so far. An apology would be nice too -- pinging everyone you have just pinged.

[unspun]

practice

[Pistolshot]

The animal fed over 500 villagers.

Fortunately for those of us who have been able to afford the hunt of a lifetime FOR SPORT, know going in the only thing we get out of it is the thrill of the hunt. The meat goes to a local village, ALWAYS. Everything is used, the ivory for trade, the skin for a number of things from roof material to luggage, bones are powdered for spackling, and so on.

I suggest before you post, you follow your own advice, THINK before you post.

[unspun]

Come to think of it, if you really want to see something perverted, get on google and see what you can find out about the way pigs and chickens are being raised today. Any game animal has had a good and normal life before it ever gets killed and, in particular, trophy animals have long since passed their genes on to enough of the next generation.

Generally, whatever individuals do, groups of people can do even worse.

[unspun]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1846909/posts?page=180#180

[fabian]

wondering what the good is of killing an elephant unless you are going to use the meat? does that make me a whacko?

[george76]

The animal fed over 500 villagers.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1846909/posts?page=205#205

[Pistolshot]

When you sign the contract for the hunt, it specifies everything that will happen with the animal. Where the meat goes, who gets to market the ivory, who selects the village, where the hunt will be and even to the specific size of the game in question. If none show that meet the parameters, guess what, you had a nice trip.

Generally, you hunt an area that has been plauged either with overpopulation, or too many roan animals that have caused destruction or death. In some cases the hunters are even asked to eliminate problem critters at the behest of the local government along with the hunt they have contracted. In most cases, depending on the critter being hunted, the only thing you get to bring home is the experience and the picture.

[B4Ranch]

I’m very familiar with the situation but I don’t have any answers either.

[george76]

Thanks.

[LexBaird]

Most men could not pull an 80 lb. bow, compound or otherwise.

I could pull a 60# compound when I was 13 or 14. Not easily, but I could do it, and once past that initial grunt, I could hold it at draw easier than my 45# recurve. That was back in the dark ages of compounds, as well. I wouldn't be surprised that they are much better engineered today. I haven't shot in years now, and even then it was most recently a self bow in the traditional longbow style. The way I was taught was to not hold the bow at arm's length and draw with the right only, but to simultaneously push my left hand forward, pull my right back, and twist the torso, thus using the strong back muscles to draw the bow. Of course, I might have been taught "wrong", but the technique worked.

[JB in Whitefish]

Montanans for Multiple Use is a GOOD organization...

[even IF I was once on their board of directors....!!!]

[Randy Larsen]

Man, That’s a heavy bow!

[miliantnutcase]

Don’t worry, I respect your point of view about this. I have a hard time killing anything let alone for sport. When I fish, I’m all about catch and release. I however respect the guy who goes to harvest the animal and eat it. I hope this elephant was dressed and eaten. There’s alot of starving people there who could use that meat if that gal doesn’t need it.

[Myrddin]

The 30-06 is sighted-in and ready. Discussion of tags to take wolves has grown very silent after the election. I was at Yellowstone yesterday. Lots of bison with lots of babies. A small number of adult elk. No baby elk visible at all. I saw no elk at all on the drive from Pocatello to West Yellowstone. There are usually a few in the fields and mountain sides on either side of I-15/SR 20.

[RachelFaith]

What a GREAT story of courage and motivation. Too bad the bambibatninnies and their hysterical non-truths have cluttered this thread.

[george76]

8-)

[george76]

Our baby elk and baby deer populations are getting hit hard by the bears again this year. Some years there are not many babies who escape the bears and live into the summer.

The bears then show up at people’s homes looking for more easy food. There are apparently no more easy baby elk to kill now.

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Seeing the baby buffalo are lots of fun. We enjoy watching the inter action between the teenagers and the new borns. Lots of noise too.