How to Shoot an Elephant
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- Park rangers, professional hunters, even sport hunters all need to learn how to shoot an elephant safely and cleanly. A good place to do it is Southern African Wildlife College, where we follow hunter Lennart Ljungfelt (also the boss of gun sights company Aimpoint) on the course and learn about the risks you face when stalking dangerous game.
No elephants are harmed!
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Excellent video! While I don't think I could ever shoot one of these magnificent creatures myself, I am grateful to the dedicated folks who work hard to preserve the species by creating a viable reason for the local population to do so. The money raised by sport hunting goes a very long way to preserving habitat and funding efforts to thwart poachers. I'd love to take this course!
Trophy hunting is by far the most effective way to protect wild animals. Great video
linne00 shut up moron
any sources to back up his statements?
how do you think they became endangered in the first place ?..... tick tock... thats right.. Trophy hunting. You can not solve a problem by using the same method that created it in the first place. Ecotourism is the best way to protect them. Not by killing them.
My IQ puts me in the top 10% of the population since you are asking. I will not argue with an idiot as that would make 2 of us. Instead, I will provide some informative links for you to peruse at your leisure. It is education and awareness that will save these animals, not rich guys with tiny dicks.theconversation.com/going-on-safari-research-shows-ecotourism-can-help-save-threatened-species-54746 edition.cnn.com/2015/05/19/opinions/trophy-hunting-not-conservation-flocken/index.htmlwww.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5125657/Trophy-hunting-WIPE-lions-elephants.html
Kilian Mac Liam sure whatever you say kid, and the sources you provided are leftist based news organizations, not peer reviewed academic sources, hell one of them is a opinion article
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/03/070315-hunting-africa_2.html
In Botswana the situation is even worse than the Kruger National park,hopelessly overstocked.
Some these comments are pathetic. Clearly none of you have ever been to Africa and seen the destructive nature of Elephants. These animals often need to be culled, even in the large national parks. This is the part that the tourists and photographers DON'T see, but it is entirely necessary, and the meat DOES get eaten. In fact, it is sometimes the only protein that some of the poorer people ever get. Educate yourselves...
AirArmsHuntingSA Thank you! and thanks for your hard work on your channel:)
+AirArmsHuntingSA Cheers Matt. / Charlie
AirArmsHuntingSA "educate yourselves"??? Really.
Just unsubscribed this channel and yours is next. "Watch your movies yourselves, while we are educating ourselves".
It's funny to see that as soon as the ytube-money starts to dry up....some channels lose their mind and show their true nature....like viewers, and their opininions, don't matter anymore because they don't bring in the bucks anymore.
The Poontang Clan I don't beleive it's rude to expect people to make an effort to understand something before they comment. If it wasn't for hunting, there would be LESS elephants around today. Elephants need to be looked after just like any other animal - That means vetinary fees, food supplement (in the case of drought) and maintenance of resources. The income from an Elephant hunt provides the funds for this, and if Elephant hunting were to be banned, private landowners (most of SA is private land) would not have the money to keep them.
You don't like me asking you to educate yourself? I would like to hear your counter argument. Why is Elephant hunting wrong?
you are pathetic i dont know why a great company like air arms has anything to do you i will be asking them
All these comments haha. There's no morale difference in shooting foxes, rabbits game to big game so whys everyone complaining. You go on game shoots fun but when its big game its suddenly frowned upon?
An excellent presentation!
Great to see a sensible and realistic approach to the conservation vs. preservation conundrum.
I like elephants, too!
Swear half of the people commenting on this video haven't actually watched it and listened to the justifications.
As a child I was very much against big game hunting because I didn't understand the benefits in conservation it enabled, now i can see how important it is, its a shame so many people still think like twelve year olds!
Elephants help spread seeds dude, you are the one hoping for s species to go extinct. It doesn't matter if it's a mouse or a whale, all animal lives matter.
We are killing animals that are good for the enviornment, we are the ones that are causing the holocene extinction event. And overkilling animals is suddenly okay?
@@hiannyssmatanda4559 you have no idea how nature works, these people actually know what there talking about
@@hiannyssmatanda4559 go spend a week or two living in a mouse infested place and get back to us.
@@conradharvey1547 the elephants don't give a shit about decreasing populations, they just care about not dying and having they're family shot down.
Good training to support an ethical hunt that serves to manage destructive elephant populations and provided much needed conservation funding for anti-poaching efforts. I'd love to have a go!
yeah like nazi guards in the camps
you do realize the monay paid for the hunt tag helps to pay for guards to protect the rest of the animals, without trophy hunting these animals would probobly no longer exist
@@dogguy8603 so true I remember one huntress that got so much hate after a Giraffe hunt . She was hunting the beast because the conservation hired her why?
Because the bull giraffe was to old to mate and Was killing younger bulls that could.
Great video. Thanks for sharing. A dangerous game hunt has long been on my "bucket list." Will probably never get to go, but that's life. I just wish those who reacted negatively had actually watched the video. I will continue to subscribe to your excellent channel.
Jay ,borrow the money and go you with not regret it and after you return you will figure out how to go again.good hunting!
"That all stopped in 1994" 😂😂😂 sounded like he wanted to add something else there
Still i have doubt where exactlry to shoot
And what guns is the best .
Will a bolt action rifle be enough .?
Look up Craig boyington elephant hunting gear on RUclips
I don't intend to ever shoot a bear, but I still practice how to do it for self defense. I do not understand why people who are offended by hunting watch hunting videos. Speaking of offensive, people outside the US really should stop wearing baseball caps. We Americans can get away with it because most of us have played baseball. The rest of you look as silly as we do wearing a flat cap or fez.
Lot of things that can go wrong, good strong jacketed bullet. Woodleigh , Northfork, Norma , Barnesor similar Solid, good penetrating bullet that goes deep and straight . And a good cartridge. If i go for elephant later, it will the .404 or a .416 Rogby. 400 grin or 450 grain weight, 4 shot minimum in magazine, or a double rifle like a .400 or a .450 . Not just good to use,but also easy to carry and shot enough so it feels like it is part of you, and lot of hard cast practice ammo before hand.
I swear by my 458WM using Woodleigh 500gr FMJ and RNSN for DG!! 👍
Great Video! Thank you for the great content ya'll always provide! I encourage those that don't understand responsible hunting practices to educate themselves on herd and habitat management techniques especially where there are many animal populations like Africa. Elephant hunting can be done both right and wrong depending on management techniques and population/habitat dynamics. Responsible hunting must play a part in areas to preserve habitat and populations of many different types of animals.
How to shoot the man who shoots elephants?
Why not start with your local abbatoir workers? They slaughter far more, captive bred, animals purely for your convenience, consumption and exploitation hey? Idiot.
Now this I love
@@idleonlooker1078 m talking about elephants. U go and kill the farmers.
@@cathydicksonn lets hunt and stuff hunters and lets kiss each other and have a pic just like hunters do while standing on the corpse of lions.
@@lastoutlaw3882 Yet you ignore some essential facts:
1) that abattoirs operate each day. You're ok with that because they provide you with meat for your convenience. (That's called hypocrisy),
2) you don't have a clue about the realities of defenceless people in rural Africa who live cheek-by-jowl alongside large dangerous animals (they are NOT what you're shown on those TV docos you watch). Many people are killed each year by elephant in must, or in trying to defend their subsistence crops from being eaten. So you're happier in letting more people get killed? and,
3) Many conservation groups support sustainable hunting because it's well managed, stops poaching and increases wild populations. The WWF Director General, James Leape, stated publicly on DVD: "Hunting species in a sustainable way will continue to be a part of conservation - and should be!" (BBC DVD, 2006, "Planet earth", Episode 14, "Living together"). Using the CAMPFIRE Project, revenue for local needs and conservation projects - the biggest single providers of that revenue being the hunters, NOT conservation groups. Go and watch "A conservationist's cry", on RUclips, to understand the reality and success in using sustainable hunting as an effective conservation management strategy.
Again, you really don't have a clue to the reality.
Excellent. Like
Sweet video ever since I was a little innocent kid reading outdoor life and field and stream nothing was more exciting than elephant stories👍.I have known the angles for a brain shot since Jim Charmicheal's epic stories and if i ever have the means to do so BAMMM elephant steaks baby! Great vid
Are .303 rifle strong enough to kill an elephant ?
I subscribed
I don't care about actually killing elephants but this class would be way too much fun to pass up. If I ever hit the lottery, I'm enrolling.
Son of a bitch
What the heck
STEP 1: Don't
wow, so much hate in the comments below me. granted Elephant hunting isn't my cup of tea either but you should still respect those with a different taste.
What a moronic comment. It's not about "taste" for the downvoters. How stupid can you be? Apart from that, no, nobody has to respect shit. Especially not trivial things such as taste.
erklaerbaer01 shut up u baldy moron. Then I believe killing some humans by explosion is also a taste. At least it will minimize the population
Last Outlaw well no it’s not about population it’s about habitat. Humans can create more buildings.animals can’t Build more trees. So we Kill the older elephants and have less elephants and Greater ratio of elephants to habitat.
Y is cardboard in danger
U may wanna stay in for awhile.
Everyone who wants to unsubscribe is a hypocrite of the highest order. What gives you the right to have your own hierarchy when it comes to animals. Why is the life of a fox, rabbit, fallow deer less important compared to an elephant? Think about it long and hard, then slap yourself, real hard.
Because there are way more foxes than elehants, apart from elephants likely being more inteligent and more scientient in this regard. People are pissed of when endangered animals are shot. Though they are missing the point that this institutions makes money to preserve elephants by making rich douches pay good money to shoot a few. As long as there is a net benefit to the animals I'm down with it, as I don't care about the individual animal but the species as a whole.
ElizaberthUndEugen You obviously didn't listen to the narrator, 'elephants', there I've spelt it for you, are overrunning the park to the the detriment of other species. As I stated, give yourself a slap.
sdebellis1 I
sdebellis1 elephants are endangered if a fox was too I'd been just as upset, keep hunting these things while there numbers are low and they'll go extinct we need substantial hunting not this bullshit
1) elephants are endangered and 2) if you think that all lifeforms should be given the same rights, youre a hypocrite for washing your hands and killing bacteria
Why would you shoot one ??for Ivory.cant eat it.
don.t kill elephant
Big fan of the channel but this I don't agree with, I appreciate the conservation big game hunting brings and how you covered the importance of a clean, humane shot for any animal. However elephants are not a pest species, they have little to do with human activity at the best of time and of course they are not shot for meat. It was a good film but don't agree with big game trophy hunting.
+Will_28 Thanks for this. Making this film, we were amazed to learn they are shot for meat. Also - though under pressure from poachers across much of Africa - there is an overpopulation in the Kruger, leading to human/elephant conflict. SANParks has tried giving the away but nobody wants them. So in some ways, and in a limited area, they are a pest species. / Charlie
For meat? You must be kidding. They are shot for the fun / experience, meat is a bi-product.
for those fortunate to have spent time in Africa you will quickly learn 1. There is huge interaction between elephants and people often resulting in conflict in which elephants are persecuted by locals. Hunting helps as it gives the locals an incentive to live along side them as they benefit directly from the hunting. 2. Elephants cause enourmous destruction if left unchecked and this damage cascades down to other species of wildlife and fauna. 3. Not only are they hunted for meat but for locals this is usually the only source of protein they get, again a direct benefit of hunting. 4. Elephants are difficult to control as due to there social structure the correct elephants must be taken this requires careful selection and planning. Poaching is indiscriminate therefore all the elephants suffer, areas where hunting takes place poaching is reduced or in some cases eliminated again another benefit of hunting. Get past the killing thing and look at the ecological benefits or these animals will be lost.
i dont see how eating the meat justifies the kill any more than hunting to collect a trophy. If you're hungry go buy a burger from the shop down the road. At the end of the day whether you hunt for meat or trophy it is a sport, you do it for the experience and as long as what your hunting is sustainable or a pest it is equally justified. too many hunters attempt to justify their spot as a requirement for meat, need to be honest with our intentions.
Andy Garag I hunt pest and game in the UK. I do it because I love the sport and challenge. However if I couldn't eat it then I'd not enjoy it. It would feel like a waste. I like game meat but of course I don't hunt to sustain myself, the meat is a biproduct.
What's next? How to spear a whale? THE RIGHT WAY.
Duly noted, glad my target’s fatter & uglier.
Guessing that everyone complaining are highly invested in protecting these animals. I'm assuming that you are the ones donating so much money to keep conservation going forward. I myself would never hunt these animals but do understand why they are being hunted an why trophy hunting is such an important pillar in the world of conservation.
Thank you! As the WWF Director General, James Leape, stated publicly on DVD: "Hunting species in a sustainable way will continue to be a part of conservation - and should be!" (BBC DVD, 2006, "Planet earth", Episode 14, "Living together"). Also legitimate, controlled, hunting has been proven to INCREASE wild specie populations and repopulate areas where specie groups roamed. I wish people would watch "A conservationist's cry" here on RUclips. Maybe they'll learn the folly of their emotional, but ignorant, perspective. 👍
@@idleonlooker1078 Elephants are critically endangered. They shouldn't be hunted just because some jackass wants a piece of bone to hang on a wall. Trophy hunting and hunting just for fun is completely different to the act of hunting an animal to controll the population. The way we're heading there wont be anymore elephants in a decade or so
@@banana-bunny So you really think that out of a population of 1.2 million elephants, the grant of 600 hunting licenses (each costing about US80K) - across the ENTIRE African continent - is the prime causes of their critically endangered listing? 🤔 You do realise you're an idiot, hey?? It's easy for those living in suburban societies to criticise something they know absolutely nothing about, except from watching cutesy TV documentaries. But I assure you its a VERY different matter when you're living cheek-by-jowl with large dangerous and wild animals, with only the thatch walls of your primitive hut, and the embers in the fire, to protect you.
But as you know precisely ZERO on this subject, understand that the TWIN causes of the decline in the elephant population (and that which faces ALL of Africa's flora and fauna!) is the continual, uncontrollable and increasing POACHING and HUMAN ENCROACHMENT upon the environment (ie: the methodical destruction of the remaining pockets of native habitats), but certainly NOT, from the legal, sustainable and ethical hunting (as based upon biological and ecological need) of elephants - you idiot! (Many conservation groups including the WWF recognise and support the distinction I've just illustrated to you. Indeed the WWF Director General, James Leape, stated publicly on DVD: "Hunting species in a sustainable way will continue to be a part of conservation - and should be!" (BBC DVD, 2006, "Planet earth", Episode 14, "Living together"). GO WATCH IT!! You'll LEARN some truths on the matter - as long as you have the courage to realise and accept that your current perceptions are just wrong and stupid?)
Furthermore, David Attenborough stated that in today's world, wild specie populations "must pay their way" in order to survive in the wild. The generated revenue from hunting licences (such as the US$48 000 000.00 per year - alone - from those 600 elephant) is used to finance local needs, infrastructure, conservation projects, provides employment in poverty sticken areas and FOOD (the meat is given FREE to the local communities!!) - in a way that your annual $20 conservation subscription will NEVER achieve!! Remember, the biggest single providers of income, and the effective management of specie populations are the hunters themselves - utilised by Game Departments to keep specie populations in check - and NOT conservation groups!!
And, FYI, the selected 600 elephant which are hunted - those being either beyond their breeding age, or, declared a danger to human life and/or rural communities - does not even make a dent in the natural annual birthing rate of the species. Again, your complete lack of knowledge on the subject matter just shows you up as anoher clueless emotional, ignorant, SJW!!
So! Go read: resourceafrica.net/open-letter-celebrity-campaigns-undermine-successful-conservation-and-human-rights/
....and go watch:
"A conservationist's cry", presented by Ivan Carter, here on RUclips.
- to understand the reality and success in using sustainable hunting as an effective - and the only proven, successful - conservation management strategy today.
Am I the only one that saw the dollar sign ringing up in his eyes!!!.
Sorry Fieldsports Britain , but we don't have elephants here in the UK, just because people hunt please don't assume they support or want to watch all hunting .
I appreciate that elephant culls have to happen and it's part of the conservation, but that does not mean we all want
to see it. Pest species yes , endangered, I struggle to watch .
You can also choose not to watch something like this if you believe it will offend you. You don't have to watch a video because they published it.
Sure i like the channel but i hate big game hunting and i dont get why people hunt healthy elephants and rhinos and so forth
Scandinavian Huntsman they don't
Will now unsubscribe .You've made a mistake posting this .
ray jones they shot a freaking piece of cardboard I would have shot an elephant if it was charging me
Wtf, people still do this. Psycos. In my country killing a bear or lynx is 10-15 years jail time.
Barbaric foul vile
Long time subscriber, lost all respect for this. Trophy hunting is disgusting. Bye, won't be coming back.
They didnt even shoot an elephant
No, but they're promoting trophy hunting none the less which I do not agree with. There is no argument for shooting animals for fun. That's not to say you can't have fun shooting.
great post
Otto Mercer there is a post higher up the section that explains. Some elephants like these are hunted for meat and all the meat is eaten and is controlling the species. I forgot where but there is actually a lot of elephant overpopulation and human/elephant conflict so it needs to be controlled. That is why they are hunted and also an overpopulation means bad things for the rest of the environment so in reality it is much better than people think. You also need to see the bigger picture. Only old and sick and weak elephants are shot that are near the end of their journey anyway. Only poachers are horrible
K bye
DON'T KILL ANIMALS!!!!!!!!!!!
Bye bye...says this long-time subscriber.
Billie Bleach but they shot a piece of wood
Take care, bye bye then.
WTF? I might as well unsubsribe
Mario Mario same
If you feel that bad about this, then how come you've done absolutely bugfer all to stop the operation of your local abbatoir? Perhaps because you like eating meat, fish and eggs? Just like from an abvatoir, the meat from a hunted elephant is distributed to the local community - but they get all this meat FREE, whereas you have to pay for yours!!
I REALLY don't like this. Yes, elephants are overpopulated in Kruger and one or two other well managed parks. Because Kruger has fences preventing migration. They're endangered everywhere else. Because of people. Nothing else. Adding in legal hunting along with the poaching is not conservation. It's just a patch on a multitude of man made problems. Add in the fact that elephants are considerably brighter than the president of South Africa... You can't really equate hunting them to hunting a deer. Just one South African's perspective I guess
here in thailand farmers protect their crops from elephants by placing bee hives amongst them it seems to work well plus as a bonus they have extra income from the honey
you do realize legal hunting is not the problem, oddly enought it is the solution, the money from the tags are used to save more animals
The elephant is not endangered, but it is continually endangered by poaching (note the subtle difference!). Hunting is NOWHERE near the scale of poaching. How can around 500 legal hunting licenses, spread across the African continent be considered "endangering" a population of around 1 500 500 elephant? 500 hunting licenses only equates to 0.03% of this population - which is more than compensated by normal reproduction!! But 500 licences means a minimum input of US$37 500 000.00 for conservation projects from this one species alone!! Add up all the fees from plains game and other big game (buffalo, lion, leopard, hippo etc) plus the other logistics like taxidermy, accommodation, transport etc - then your talking about a billion dollar industry. Twit!!
Make a "How to shoot a trophy hunter" next. Would be much more beneficial for the world.
fieldsports must be struggling for content to use this ,keep up the good work ,but this is a poor film ,who you tying to appease ,playing straight into the anti hunting club ,
never shoot.an elephant
Larry Rice I would elephants destroy properties over there my friends own a guide company and they said that's why they don't have any because of how much they destroy
Not even close to okay. I really enjoyed your channel but putting this out like it's okay only earns my unsubscribe.
no fox hunting great
Unsubscribed!
melissaconnie Bye then.
Go poacher hunting instead
Yes!! Totally agree!! Elephants are NOT endangered, but are constantly endangered by poaching!! (Note the significant, subtle, difference!!) 👍
I'm all for hunting but I'm not with hunting endangered animals
Elephants are not endangered. But they are endangered by poaching - not legal hunting. (Note the subtle, but significant difference!!)
is it necessary to shoot them...plz dont do
Ibn Sina what else are you going to do?
@@parallelparkerrr Leave nature alone?
bad move. shame on you
not cool
Go say that to your local abbatoir and see if it stops their operation.
I would find it hard to shoot an animal that has so much trust and no fear of humans other than to put one out of it's misery if injured. These Elephant are used to humans with the tourists daily within yards of them, not sure I would call it hunting.
Culling, you would call it Culling
big fan of the channel, don't agree with trophy hunting but not gonna preach against it. What is disgusting is shooting an elephant in the hip to stop it before walking round the animal to finish it off as described at 4 minutes, that is a despicable thing to do to any animal let alone such an emotionally developed and intelligent animal
This channel is now terrible
I enjoy the channel but this is not right
Ironic as it sounds, but by your comment you're denying the only proven way (and supported by conservation groups) to actually save African wildlife. Put aside your bias and go watch "A conservationists' cry" on RUclips - and learn the truth.
Don't shoot elephants for fun or a trophy living in South Africa I know that they are going to end up like the rhino ...endangered and are well on there way
Elephants are highly intelligent and extraordinarily sensitive animals. They are believed to be among the most social creatures on earth, capable of expressing. displaying, and communicating a wide range of emotions
Elephants are also highly altruistic, often placing the well-being of other members of their group ahead of themselves, particularly with regard to their young. Adults of both sexes regularly risk harm to defend the juveniles of the herd, even when the adults are completely unrelated to endangered calf.
Their prodigious range of behaviors and subtle yet expressive interactions suggests that they each posses their own unique personality, with individuals capable of forming a multitude of diverse social relationships, the most intimate of such relationships are often extremely devotional and long lasting, involving very strong emotional bonds for one another that often last throughout their entire lives.
There are many documents instances of elephants dying of grief upon the death of another elephant with which they share a particularly close bond.
It’s sad and disturbing that people who are so privileged would choose to use that privilege to kill such a majestic creature, and in-so-doing, inflict such great emotional pain and suffering upon the surviving members of the elephant families left behind, most of which have never known life without the slaughtered patriarch or matriarch.
If you're so wealthy to be able to just throw down $100k, there's no law that says you must kill an elephant in order to donate to the cause of their protection. Rather than selfishly taking their lives all for yourself, just so you can carve up their lifeless bodies, why not just take a picture and leave them alive so the 8 billion other people in the world to enjoy their majesty too?
I mean do you also say... "Ok, yeah, I'll go ahead and donate a hundred grand to feed the starving children... but only if I get to kill one and cut off his head and his hands to keep as a trophy"
Sick right? ....so how tell me how this is different? ...Well, except for the fact that there are several billion children in the world, but not nearly as many elephants.
Can't believe you've put this shit on here.
WHAT A LOT OF B.S.