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To: TexasCowboy
Early the next morning when the elephants were too tired to run and could barely walk, they made the kills. This was done by one hunter then the other running up to the side of one or the other and taking one shot in the ear then backing away to reload. Many shots later both elephants crashed to the ground.

He proudly exhibited the rifle that was used to make the kills - a single shot .22 bolt action rifle!

That's one way to do it with a .22. Another is up the nasal cavity. Then there's the trick with a 12-bore shotgun, inserted up the rear after lifting the tail, suppository fashion. Marksmanship is not an issue, and the damage is done by internal haemmorage from the expanding powder gasses, with the type and direction of the shot load of less importance. The primary factor in the choice of shooter for that sort of most rude slaughter aside from stealth, is that the shooter be the fastest runner possible, for obvious reasons. And the more the beast runs, the more it injures itself, with death coming after two or three days of agony.

There was a kill of a circus bull in the US in the mid-1960s using a .22 short, by a drunken rube showing off his handgun to his lady companion. Imagine his surprise upon being presented with the bill for his localized safari, following the beating he received from the animal's handlers.

92 posted on 05/24/2003 8:41:18 AM PDT by archy (Keep in mind that the milk of human kindness comes from a beast that is both cannibal and a vampire.)
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To: archy
I remember a story about an elephant that had killed it's handler and the townsfolk decided the elephant should be hanged.

They used a crane and I saw the pictures somewhere on the internet. The only thing I can think is that they killed the the elephant first and then hung it as a symbolic punishment.
96 posted on 05/24/2003 8:53:47 AM PDT by Shooter 2.5 (Don't punch holes in the lifeboat)
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