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taken on the right line of angle to the brain, else 

 the shot does not stop the animal. Indeed, this is 

 a difficult shot to make successfully. 



The heart shot on elephants is easier if one has 

 time and if one can see the body of the animal in 

 the cover. The heart lies rather low, back of the 

 knee, much as it does in the buffalo or the grizzly 

 bear. With a clean, unimpeded shot, the high power 

 rifle will drive the bullet into the heart of an ele- 

 phant easily enough. The heart is large as a bucket 

 and if you know where it is, and can see the place, 

 and have plenty of time and a lot of other things 

 the heart shot is not so bad. 



Another African hunter says that if an elephant 

 is going away from you, you can make a spine shot 

 above the hips which often will drop him. This 

 takes a tremendously hard-hitting load, of course. 

 Sometimes the big express will do it. 



Yet another African hunter says that he has often 

 put elephants hors du combat by the simple process 

 of shooting them in the knee joint ; the modern high 

 power rifle bursts open the joint and the animal 

 drops. It cannot then arise and may be dispatched 

 later at one's leisure. I have never heard of any 

 other hunters who have tried this shot deliberately. 

 This same man declares that if you stand in the 

 face of a charging elephant and keep on firing at 



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