elephants with a bow?

[Steve O]

Hawken,

If you go to the regular Bowsite forums, you can get all the Tink you want.  He has a very interesting writing style  :D  .  From what I can tell, he is the "original" Chuck Adams.

[Brass]

[Brass]

Something I wanted to say should not go left undsaid.  There may be a unique opportunity toward the common good if one is doing a service to feed the hungry.  That deserves honorable mention.  It is a dignified reason for a hunt.  But mostly, I see lots of trophy hunting as nothing more than big buisness.

[Longbow1415]

Here's one of the Howard Hill Elephant Heads that came from Howard Hill Archery. The second photo is one of Howard's actual Elephant Arrows!

 

 

[Extremist]

Nice!  Sign me up for one (the arrow).  Where did you get the pictures?  Thanks man.

[Longbow1415]

Spent 4 days with Craig at Howard Hill Archery in Hamilton, Montana last September. I purchased the Elephant Head broadhead, and Craig was kind enough to show me a load of Howard's personal items! I even got to hold one of Howard's bows!

[Liquid Amber]

Verlyn P. Owens killed a bull elephant with a 100# recurve and 1000 grain arrows in 1967.

Frank J. Liska shot an elephant in the late 1950's, but left Africa before finding it.  It's likely the elephant died, was recovered for its ivory, but not returned to Liska.

I suspect there may be another or so taken with traditional bows.

One reason for Negley's claim, that Hill and Swinehart had their "filmed" elephants shot in the knee prior to bow shooting them, was to be able to film them, as elephants are notorious for leaving the scene of the crime after being hit.  This is a notion I've found repeated several times in material devoted to bow hunting elephants.

[Coldfingers]

I had a chance to read Negley's book this winter. It was a borrowed copy, signed and numbered by Mr. Negley.

Simply fascintating to read and I stand in awe of anyone who enters the African bush with intentions of poking huge, thick critters with a stick.

The guy has gotta be wearing a XXXXL jock strap!

My best,

Scotty

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Howard Hill did it with one arrow. check out the video tembo great work on that old footage

[Shawn Leonard]

Someone, tell me if I am wrong, but I have heard Howard Hill shot an elephant that was actually chained with a ring around its foot. Iwas told youcan see it in the video if ya look real close. Shawn

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I didn't know that or see it

[Basalt]

G'day guys, I asked the question about Howard Hill's elephant a while back and thanks for the replies. I have a signed copy of " Howard Hill The Man and the Legend" by Craig Ekin,it's more then 20 years old. I've read the start of that book where Mr Hill stalks and kills a rogue Elephant with a single arrow to my son [ hopefully he will get to read it to his son one day too] and a bunch of other kids countless times.It's an inspiring story that never fails to have the kids full attention.When they look me in the eye and ask did Mr Hill really kill that Elephant with one arrow and no big gun,I'd just like to know that I was telling them the facts. I haven't had the pleasure of reading " Sagitarius" but I'll endevour to get a hold of a copy soon. I have a copy of Mr Negley's video where to shoots the Elephant with a single arrow, excellent stuff. Down here in Australia info like this is hard to get a hold of, you guys at "Trad Gang" fill a huge void. Thanks and good hunting.

[psychmonky]

hey, guys. i read an article once about guys who wanted small shaft diam. to cut down on friction but still wanted a heavy arrow. they ended up cutting a piece of steel cable the exact length of the CARBON arrows they were using and slid it inside of the shaft before they added the nocks and inserts. they claimed 1000 grns and a complete passthrough. ( dont know how much of this was fabricated)