Older Elephant Hunting Footage

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Been on the couch with the flu for a couple of days so I'm deep in the YouTube rabbit hole. Ran across this which is pretty cool elephant hunting footage from about 30 years ago.

A couple notable differences, first the discussion of elephant numbers and how different they are now. Second a lot of these seem to be hunted in very swampy wet conditions, very different than the videos I see from today. Maybe they were doing more hunting during the wet season in those days? Lastly, the shooting didn't seem nearly as good as on videos these days. Maybe the bullets weren't as good and didn't get the job done. Also, a lot more guys in sleeveless shirts and vests, the fashion was definitely different, lol.

 
I was amazed at the weight of the ivory. I would have said 60+ Just shows how I’m not as good at guessing. They thought upper 70’s and they were actually high 80’s and 90.
 
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I was amazed at the weight of the ivory. I would have said 60+ Just shows how I’m not as good at guessing. They thought upper 70’s and they were actually high 80’s and 90.
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Plus the one single tusker over 100.

On ivory I was amazed at the weight of some of what they shot but found it interesting that the elephants they showed had ivory that was either very large or very small. You seem to see more in the middle these days. Not sure if that’s just a function of what they put on film or if the age class distribution is different now.
 
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