QOUTE:
"Sharpshooters"?
Goodness, gracious, a maneating squirrel could have had their butts, for breakfast! How damned hard can it be to hit a target the size of a dinner plate, inside of a ball park? Hell, they should have closed in, to "point blank range", whatever that is, at the moment!
Ain't ever had to shoot an elephant, but I know where to aim, just in case I need to!
Killing an elephant is not easy.
The hide itself is half an inch thick. Even large caliber high velocity bullets donot reach vital organs easily.
There are very specifc places on an elephants head that you need to shoot to kill it..Otherwise the bullet goes into tissue and bones and the animals just runs away..Yes ..Runs quite fast too for its size....You cannot kill an elephant by shooting in heart...The heart is just too deep in the cavity and well protected by thick bones and tissue layers...
As the article describes you have to shoot at an imiginary line beween the ears ...Targeting the brain with multiple bullets...Shooting any other part damages the body but the animal does not die...
You sneak around behind the elephant and shoot him in the danglies. Then, when he turns to stampede you and squash you like a bug, you shoot him in the head..??..
It is always about bullet placement. Some large caliber high velocity bullets don't have the edge on penetration you might expect. "Karamojo" Bell dropped more than a few with a 6.5 x 54 Mannlicher-Schoenauer, 160 grain solids. I believe that "high velocity" has been overplayed, there isn't much magic in ballistics.
Anything that makes it to the brain is equal to anything else.