Your friends need to discover http://www.alaskabowhunting.com. They're taking elephants and buffalo cleanly with longbows and sell the proper arrows and broad heads to do it.
The dam thing is made from plastic! What a joke.
Bet one of these would fare much better.... but I'd bet the BATF wouldn't be very pleased.
http://www.billsbangsticks.com/Powerhead-Information_ep_42-1.html
Thank you H50!
I hunted with Jacques Senekal's Africa Maximum Safari's (for the 6th time) with Wernher "Walla" Albertse PH.
The bolt was a custom 23", 800 grain "Spynal Tap" carbon "shaft within a shaft" made by Jerry at South Shore Archery, tipped with Alaska Bowhunting's 200 gr Maasai...
I've taken two big bulls with broadside heart shots, one with a .375 H&H / 300 Barnes, the other with an 800 grain arrow sporting an Alaskan Bowhunting 200 grain broadhead. The .375 bull ran about twice as far (100 yards) before expiring and would have likely run even farther had I not put...
Funny you should ask ... I just did it a couple weeks ago in RSA bordering Kruger Park.
We managed to stalk within 20 yards and put the first one through the heart. Insurance shot was also complete penetration.
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