The .700 Nitro express elephant gun

[Viking]

Elephant guns are defensive weapons; the elephant is the animal that kills most people every year. As for illegal ivory hunting, the AK-47 gets the majority of the kills.

[Shuckins]

Hate to bust your environmentalist bubble bud, but elephants are no longer endangered.  Protectionist programs and the setting aside of parks free from human predation have produced a dramatic upswing in elephant numbers.  Indeed, their numbers are increasing at such a rate they are threatening their own habitats, stripping and killing trees, and raiding the farms and villages of African tribes that live in close proximity to them.  

Consequently, the number of humans being killed in confrontations with elephants is also going up dramatically.

The move to protect elephants from all human predation may be backfiring in that regard, for they appear to be losing their natural fear of human beings.

By the by, unless an elephant is enraged and already in the act of charging they are not all that hard to kill, at least according to some of the more experienced big-game hunters of the twentiety century.  Karamajo Bell killed scores of them with nothing more powerful than a 6.5 Mannlicher with a 160 grain solid projectile traveling at a mere 2400 feet per second.  All brain shots.

[Masherbrum]

Originally posted by Neubob
If you want to pick a fight, however, go do it elsewhere. I asked a simple question and was looking for a simple answer.

I didn't, but I knew all along that you would be right.      

You ripped on the 700 cartridge in your first post.   You've defended the 50 throughout your posts.  Why even start the post in the first place?

[Neubob]

Originally posted by Masherbrum
Why even start the post in the first place?

So that somebody who knows more than I do could ease all my silly pre-concieved beliefs.

[Toad]

Originally posted by AquaShrimp
What kind of monster shoots an animal as rare as an elephant?

The monsterous Park Rangers at Kruger Park?

Why 5000 elephants must die

[Estes]

700 nitro...That is a wickedly powerful gun. I too, have had the luck (misfortune) to fire one. Bullets are also insanely expensive (last time I fired a few anyway)