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Post by Woody Williams on May 2, 2006 17:44:31 GMT -5
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Post by Woody Williams on May 3, 2006 15:38:36 GMT -5
Bill Troubridge posted on the Excalibur site..
The trip was great, but the hunt itself was exhausting. It took 9 hard, hot days to finally find the right elephant in the right position and make it work. The bull was feeding along the shore of a bay off of Lake Kariba and we stalked to within 20 yards and dropped the hammer on him. Penetration was at a diagonal from the back of it's chest on the left to hit the front leg bone on the far side, where it stopped. Recovery was about 150 yards. All things considered, I believe that on a square broadside it would have been a pass through.
The meat was used down to the very last scrap by the inhabitants of a fishing village on Sibilobilo lagoon a few miles from the kill site. Over a hundred people cut around 4000 pounds of boned meat off of the carcass and carted it away within a few hours. It was a very big day for the village!
We shot the video for a show called Safari Hunters Journal on OLN, but after they show it we will put some of it up on our web video selection.
We tried for Cape Buff and Hippo but the gods didn't shine on us.
I used a stock Exomax with a double walled carbon arrow using extra weights and a brass insert. Front end was a Magnus 125 unvented 2 blade cut on contact head and steel adapter. Total mass weight was 900 grains, velocity around 255, hitting power about 125 foot lbs. They shot really great. The bow was quiet and actually recoiled on firing!
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Post by chicobrownbear on May 4, 2006 18:07:09 GMT -5
Bill Troubridge posted on the Excalibur site..The trip was great, but the hunt itself was exhausting. It took 9 hard, hot days to finally find the right elephant in the right position and make it work. The bull was feeding along the shore of a bay off of Lake Kariba and we stalked to within 20 yards and dropped the hammer on him. Penetration was at a diagonal from the back of it's chest on the left to hit the front leg bone on the far side, where it stopped. Recovery was about 150 yards. All things considered, I believe that on a square broadside it would have been a pass through. The meat was used down to the very last scrap by the inhabitants of a fishing village on Sibilobilo lagoon a few miles from the kill site. Over a hundred people cut around 4000 pounds of boned meat off of the carcass and carted it away within a few hours. It was a very big day for the village! We shot the video for a show called Safari Hunters Journal on OLN, but after they show it we will put some of it up on our web video selection. We tried for Cape Buff and Hippo but the gods didn't shine on us. I used a stock Exomax with a double walled carbon arrow using extra weights and a brass insert. Front end was a Magnus 125 unvented 2 blade cut on contact head and steel adapter. Total mass weight was 900 grains, velocity around 255, hitting power about 125 foot lbs. They shot really great. The bow was quiet and actually recoiled on firing! Then we went to Sears and bought 17 new chest freezers.... |
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Post by DEERTRACKS on May 9, 2006 7:56:50 GMT -5
Bill Troubridge posted on the Excalibur site..The trip was great, but the hunt itself was exhausting. It took 9 hard, hot days to finally find the right elephant in the right position and make it work. The bull was feeding along the shore of a bay off of Lake Kariba and we stalked to within 20 yards and dropped the hammer on him. Penetration was at a diagonal from the back of it's chest on the left to hit the front leg bone on the far side, where it stopped. Recovery was about 150 yards. All things considered, I believe that on a square broadside it would have been a pass through. The meat was used down to the very last scrap by the inhabitants of a fishing village on Sibilobilo lagoon a few miles from the kill site. Over a hundred people cut around 4000 pounds of boned meat off of the carcass and carted it away within a few hours. It was a very big day for the village! We shot the video for a show called Safari Hunters Journal on OLN, but after they show it we will put some of it up on our web video selection. We tried for Cape Buff and Hippo but the gods didn't shine on us. I used a stock Exomax with a double walled carbon arrow using extra weights and a brass insert. Front end was a Magnus 125 unvented 2 blade cut on contact head and steel adapter. Total mass weight was 900 grains, velocity around 255, hitting power about 125 foot lbs. They shot really great. The bow was quiet and actually recoiled on firing! Then we went to Sears and bought 17 new chest freezers.... Tusk, tusk surely you jest! ;D ;D |
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