Please educate yourself of the effectiveness of the bow and the arrow in taking game. Here are some highlight for you.
1) Arrow shot game die by bleeding only. There is no shock value as in a bullet. Therefore a properly placed arrows kill quickly and efficiently. (That is why this woman is to be commended for getting close enough to not miss.)
2) I would suggest you read an essay by Dan Quinlen called Deed Don't Die in Bed. Dan interviews several hunters that were accidentally shot with broadhead tipped arrows. The one common theme among them was that they found out they were bleeding before they knew they were shot. There are many stories where deer after being shot with a bow continue feeding not knowing they have been shot.
3) I know a lot of bow-hunters and can tell you first-hand that most kill very little game, compared to gun hunters. We are self policing our ranks to educate bow-hunters to wait for a sure killing shot. I personally have let hundreds of deer walk by because the shot was too iffy.
4) Also, you should know that the fastest way to be out of favor with the bow-hunting crowd is to not consume, or have consumed, the animal harvested. With a few exceptions most bow-hunters will not tolerate waste.
So your wholesale attack on bow-hunting is unwarranted.
"...a well placed high caliber bullet will do the job very quickly."
Same argument for a well place arrow.
Deed = Dead
Granted most African nations do not allow the use of mechanical broadheads, but those Aftershock mechanicals have damned near made firearms obsolete for hunting. They claim they're getting ten second kills on cape buffalo with their 125-gr points and I've had one big deer take four steps and collapse as if from a heart attack or stroke using one of the 85-gr Aftershocks, so that the claim doesn't seem preposterous.
I wasn’t attacking bow hunters...jeez..I was responding to a poster who was referring to the story and that the elephant took a while to die. Was that not true? I would have read the whole story myself but I didn’t want to go through all of the posts in the link. It still seems to me if that elephant had taken a big bullet to the head he would be out immediately whereas an arrow to such a large animal is going to take a while longer. I’m not knocking hunting but it just seems like you want to kill the animal as quick as possible. Why is that unreasonable? I mean a bow for such a large animal? That doesn’t make sense to me. And taking your picture next to the dead animal
just strikes me as odd and a bit egotistical. Maybe I am wrong...but it is not a wholesale attack on hunters. I am sure most hunters are doing it for the skill and the meat, skin, etc...