Kawshik Rahman
AH elite
At the encouragement of my respected fellow forum member , New Boomer , today l have decided to give my respected fellow forum members an account of the Royal Bengal tiger Shikar which almost led to my client losing his life. As l write this account , l certainly recall both the excitement and the horrors which unfolded , during this Shikar .
Let us begin , dear readers by going back to July of 1968 .
Shikar season was heavily underway as the rainy monsoon season had just come to an end and clients were booking Shikars with Sundar Raj Shikar , left and right. One afternoon , Karim and l were at the veranda of Sundar Raj sir’s office cleaning Karim’s Brno .22 Long Rifle auto loader when ( On a previous Shikar , the rifle had become dirty when Karim was forced to crawl through some mud ) . Sundar Raj sir sent a Chokra ( clerk boy ) to call me to his office. My client was there . He was a Belgian gentleman and his wife had accompanied him.
This gentleman desired to shoot cranes and a Royal Bengal tiger . Splendid , l thought. To this date , nothing excited me more than hunting a Royal Bengal tiger . It was the King of all dangerous animals to hunt. Among birds , l enjoyed ( and still do enjoy ) shooting cranes the most , as their flesh is excellent in terms of flavour.
The gentleman had brought two beautiful fire arms and they reflected his sophisticated European back ground very well.
The shot-gun was a magnificent side by side of 10 bore , calibrated for the 89 millimeter cartridge . It was made by a firm named Neumann.
For this shot-gun , the gentleman had brought number 2 cartridges from the firm , Winchester . These held about two ounces of shot pellets .
The rifle was a splendid mauser bolt operation rifle , calibrated for the 9.3 millimeter cartridge.
For this , the gentleman had brought cartridges from the firm RWS . These weighed above 280 grain and came in soft head variety and metal envelope type .
And so , all arrangements were made . Two days later , the Shikar would begin . As Shikar season was extremely busy in this time of the year , Karim would be guiding another client for a Gaur Shikar , which meant that l would have to arrange everything alone. If Karim was with me during this Shikar , then it would not have gone as terribly as it did , as he was far more cautious than l and disaster could have been more easily averted , as the next three parts of this account will detail.
I have already provided the picture of the tiger , as that was not the terrifying part of this Shikar , in the slightest
Let us begin , dear readers by going back to July of 1968 .
Shikar season was heavily underway as the rainy monsoon season had just come to an end and clients were booking Shikars with Sundar Raj Shikar , left and right. One afternoon , Karim and l were at the veranda of Sundar Raj sir’s office cleaning Karim’s Brno .22 Long Rifle auto loader when ( On a previous Shikar , the rifle had become dirty when Karim was forced to crawl through some mud ) . Sundar Raj sir sent a Chokra ( clerk boy ) to call me to his office. My client was there . He was a Belgian gentleman and his wife had accompanied him.
This gentleman desired to shoot cranes and a Royal Bengal tiger . Splendid , l thought. To this date , nothing excited me more than hunting a Royal Bengal tiger . It was the King of all dangerous animals to hunt. Among birds , l enjoyed ( and still do enjoy ) shooting cranes the most , as their flesh is excellent in terms of flavour.
The gentleman had brought two beautiful fire arms and they reflected his sophisticated European back ground very well.
The shot-gun was a magnificent side by side of 10 bore , calibrated for the 89 millimeter cartridge . It was made by a firm named Neumann.
For this shot-gun , the gentleman had brought number 2 cartridges from the firm , Winchester . These held about two ounces of shot pellets .
The rifle was a splendid mauser bolt operation rifle , calibrated for the 9.3 millimeter cartridge.
For this , the gentleman had brought cartridges from the firm RWS . These weighed above 280 grain and came in soft head variety and metal envelope type .
And so , all arrangements were made . Two days later , the Shikar would begin . As Shikar season was extremely busy in this time of the year , Karim would be guiding another client for a Gaur Shikar , which meant that l would have to arrange everything alone. If Karim was with me during this Shikar , then it would not have gone as terribly as it did , as he was far more cautious than l and disaster could have been more easily averted , as the next three parts of this account will detail.
I have already provided the picture of the tiger , as that was not the terrifying part of this Shikar , in the slightest