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https://archive.today/20200110151356/https://www.bangkokpost.com/learning/easier-stuff/342415/elephant-killing-probe-heats-up
I’m guessing no one has tried it with 22 short or long though.
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That's surprising that a .22 would kill one
I'd hate to be the guy that pisses that elephant off armed only with a .22
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Capstick related this in one of his books. Apparently a shot right behind the foreleg, the main artery is very close to the skin (which is over 1" thick) will punch through and the ellie will eventually bleed out.
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Fred Bear killed one with a cedar arrow from a recurve bow!
Reading this book now, pretty interesting, using 4 oz balls from a muzzle loader in 1872.
Frederick Courteney Selous: A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa: Being a Narrative of Nine Years Spent Amongst the Game of the Far Interior of South Africa
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There was fellow, Bell, who killed them as a livelihood with a 6.5 x 54 Mannlicher...eventually graduating to the 7x57. And the .303 etc.
Well this is a fine pickle we're in, should'a listened to Joe McCarthy and George Orwell I guess.
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