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Girl takes down elephant with 83-lb bow
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Posted on 06/08/2007 4:17:56 AM PDT by rickdylan

Girl kills elephant with 83-lb bow

One of the more unusual stories I've seen on the archery forums recently...



TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: animalrights; ar; archery; banglist; elephant; hunting
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1 posted on 06/08/2007 4:17:58 AM PDT by rickdylan
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And if this is Africa, now she’s going to jail.


2 posted on 06/08/2007 4:18:58 AM PDT by FremontLives (The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn from the crow.)
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Is there more to this story? Usually, killing an elephant will get you incarcerated for poaching- or shot.

Am I mistaken?


3 posted on 06/08/2007 4:20:09 AM PDT by ovrtaxt (I would rather vote for Lindsay Lohan than Lindsey Graham.)
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To: rickdylan

Read G. Orwell, ‘Killing an Elephant’ I think that was the name of the short story. It breaks your heart.


4 posted on 06/08/2007 4:21:09 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Stay together, pay the solders and forget everything else." Lucius Septimus Severus)
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To: rickdylan

By the way, I strongly object to that person being classified as a girl until we can get independant confirmation. Please retitle “Thing kills Elephant” until such time.


5 posted on 06/08/2007 4:21:28 AM PDT by FremontLives (The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn from the crow.)
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Looks like she’s standing well back from a small elephant. Photo trick like the kid with the giant pig?


6 posted on 06/08/2007 4:22:56 AM PDT by Dumpster Baby ("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
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A small elephant with yard long tusks?


7 posted on 06/08/2007 4:23:44 AM PDT by ovrtaxt (I would rather vote for Lindsay Lohan than Lindsey Graham.)
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To: rickdylan
Where is Tarzan when you really need him?
8 posted on 06/08/2007 4:24:34 AM PDT by albee (The best thing you can do for the poor is.....not be one of them. - Eric Hoffer)
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To: Dumpster Baby

Which one is the elephant?


9 posted on 06/08/2007 4:24:40 AM PDT by docbnj
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I’m surprised a girl can even pull an 80+ lb bow


10 posted on 06/08/2007 4:29:04 AM PDT by Shimmer128 (30 degrees to 300 degrees in seconds.)
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To: rickdylan

Awesome!

And there is of course the wackos either whining its a girl, its the elephant or its a deadly weapon.


11 posted on 06/08/2007 4:34:08 AM PDT by Eye of Unk
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To: FremontLives

The girl would be more than YOU could handle, much less the elephant....


12 posted on 06/08/2007 4:34:08 AM PDT by rickdylan
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To: docbnj

Reading the article elicits very little respect for this show-off hunter. She says that in semi-darkness she fired one arrow into one of a group of the pachydermsi, left (presumably for a good night’s sleep), and found “him” (probably her) the next morning. Very un-cool, lady!

Elephants are intelligent, social animals. No responsible hunter would wound game and then go off and abandon it. Of course, only a jerk would attack one elephant in a herd. There was no reason for this killing, other than to flatter the ego of a brainless biped female.

The picture shows no sign that the flesh of the hapless animal is even being bled and processed for human consumption. (It is edible: I have had elephant burgers myself.)

It is a shame that people treat the most noble of animals this way. Why can’t this girl just go play dumb video games, like a normal youngster?


13 posted on 06/08/2007 4:34:40 AM PDT by docbnj
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I’ve seen worse tusks. I thought the legal limit on bow poundage for elephant was 100lb with two blade heads, maybe it has been changed.
14 posted on 06/08/2007 4:34:50 AM PDT by Vision ("Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him." Jeremiah 17:7)
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To: FremontLives
And if this is Africa, now she’s going to jail.

It certainly looks like an African elephant.

15 posted on 06/08/2007 4:35:05 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (Run, Fred run! I will send my donation as soon as you announce.)
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To: FremontLives; ovrtaxt
Why is she “going to jail” or “poaching”? Elephant hunting is huge and the main reason elephants are doing well is because of hunters dollars. It probably cost 30k to get that license.
16 posted on 06/08/2007 4:36:53 AM PDT by Vision ("Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him." Jeremiah 17:7)
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To: AlaskaErik

They encourage hunting in areas in which elephants are overpopulated. Elephants have the same basic problem which deer have in that they can quickly overgraze an area and then all starve.


17 posted on 06/08/2007 4:36:54 AM PDT by rickdylan
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To: Vision

The legal limit if there is such a thing would be for MINIMUM poundage, which would probably be about 80.


18 posted on 06/08/2007 4:38:10 AM PDT by rickdylan
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To: FremontLives

I wish they would put her a$$ in jail!

She should be made to field dress it and eat all of it!
Killing animals for sport is just plain wrong IMO, especially ENDANGERED animals!!!! I don’t understand the pleasure of killing an innocent animal.

I don’t have a problem with folks hunting when a certain species is overpopulated and in danger of starving (i.e. deer hunting).


19 posted on 06/08/2007 4:38:14 AM PDT by Muzzle_em (A proud warrior of the Pajamahadeen)
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To: FremontLives
NOOOOO!

there are many areas that are inundated with Pachyderms and are legally hunted. It is a necessity is some parts of Africa.

Check your facts.

20 posted on 06/08/2007 4:39:12 AM PDT by Vaquero (" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
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