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African Elephant War Bow Questions
Prarie Bowyer:
From Howard Hill Archery catalogue.
Howard shot 3 elephants. One was a rogue or "Tembo". on Feb 27,1950 Howard became teh first WHITE MAN to ever kill an elephant with a bow and arrow. "Tembo" is a 3 lam bamboo bow modeled after the the famous "Gran-Ma" bow that he used to kill all three elephants. It sells for $525.00. I'm guessing that the actual was closer to the Wesley Special. Hill was famous for heavy draw weight bows. He is quoted as saying his favorite hunting weight is 80-90# but can draw 100# easily. It was his physical conditioning. At 65 he was shooting a 75lb bow with "ease and comfort". He shot such a bow for 30-90 min three times a week. Shooting was his exercise.
Most Hill bows are 4 laminations except the "Wesley Special" which is 5 laminations of tempered bamboo and Tembo, a 3 lam bow. His bows can be requested at any weight up to 200 lbs and 32" draw in lengths between 60-70". They all contain fiberglass. Hill was quite quick to adopt fiberglass in his designs as some of his actual early bows are galss backed and some are glass bellied.
http://www.howardhillarchery.com/robin-hood-limited-edition.html
the current special edition is looks bamboo backed and glass bellied.
Loki:
Bit of topic but here's a thread about Chief AJ's Longbow record.
https://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php?topic=2910.0
CraigMBeckett:
--- Quote from: Loki on August 20, 2011, 08:52:29 am ---Bit of topic but here's a thread about Chief AJ's Longbow record.
https://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php?topic=2910.0
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I would suggest the correct way of referring to this is undocumented, unproven claim.
Craig.
bow-toxo:
--- Quote from: stickbender on July 04, 2011, 05:09:43 pm ---
I wouldn't hunt an Elephant, but I would dearly love to have some tusks, and an Elephant foot umbrella stand. Saw a matching pair of tusks in the home of a very wealthy man years ago. They were at least six feet tall and very thick. I remember seeing an Elephant leg umbrella stand, in an antique shop when I was a young boy.
Wayne
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I would have hoped that killing intelligent beautiful animals and making orphans of their young for these kinds of questionable and trivial purposes was in the past. Unfortunately it is not.
If you kill it, eat it.
JW_Halverson:
--- Quote from: bow-toxo on September 01, 2011, 08:30:48 pm ---
I would have hoped that killing intelligent beautiful animals and making orphans of their young for these kinds of questionable and trivial purposes was in the past. Unfortunately it is not.
If you kill it, eat it.
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I would agree if I could overlook the fact that in some parts of Africa the elephant population has exceeded the carrying capacity of the land they inhabit. Good conservation methods would dictate removing a number of bulls, but also a critical number of females without calves. The usual clientele that's well heeled enough to afford paying for an elephant hunt is going to be able to absorb the added cost of the requisite game manager/guide that can point him towards the correct animals, avoiding the unnecessary orphaning of young.
The other choice in areas where elephants are overpopulated is to try teaching them abstinence and/or safe sex practices. I don't know if they are ready for that yet.
I spoke with a local gentleman here that has hunted elephant with his wife in Africa. He states in both cases the carcass was stripped of ALL usable meat in under three hours by teams of 4 trained bushmen. All bushmeat is distributed thru the area to various agencies/tribal governments, no waste. Cripes, it takes me all of that much time to skin, quarter, cut, and wrap a 100 lb deer!
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