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elephant gun

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elephant gun
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1. (Military / Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) a gun used in the hunting of elephants
2. (Individual Sports & Recreations / Swimming, Water Sports & Surfing) Austral slang a surfboard for riding large waves
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The Gun s name was draws from the phrase elephant gun , which means that the board is the surfers very own gun for hunting the big and giant surfs.
Surfboards - Just the Strongest Will Act by Gilles Sabas / Travel, recreation and leisure community
Elephant guns have given way to telephoto lenses, but the essentials remain: dawn and dusk game drives, stately canvas tents guarded by warriors with spears, and drinks around the campfire, with the mawing and bellowing of animals in the liquid black night beyond.
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It would have taken an elephant gun to drop him," Omohundro said.
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