Until 1974 , foreign hunters were still allowed to formally come to Bangladesh and shoot marauding Royal Bengal tigers . It was 1973 and I was working with the Sundarban Forest Guards , at the time . An American gentleman came to hunt a marauding Royal Bengal tiger . He was armed with a .460 Weatherby Magnum ( a Weatherby Mark V ) .
The unfortunate gentleman got mangled to death by the marauder and this , in turn prompted all of the Bangladesh forest departments to unfortunately cease handing out LOA ( Letter Of Authorization ) permits to all foreigners for shooting problem animals . They feared negative publicity in front of the rest of the word , and also feared that more dead foreigners would strain foreign relations .
Now , I cannot pretend to know the exact details as to how the gentleman was killed ( because I was stationed in the Dublar Chor Forest Range , while the American gentleman was fatally mangled in the Buri Goalini Forest Range ) . However , I have never been fond of Weatherby calibres or rifles for dangerous game .