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Have the same caliber and shot a maneater leopard with it.

That’s a steal for $7 an ammo. We in India pay $12 for the basic federal ammo and too we have to beg at the gun store.

Try taking a young male than a female you want regret. Axis is spotted deer or chital what we call them here and they are good eating again. Bapu

Yes Nilgai (Blue Bull ) is very much eaten here and the meat is delicious. Bapu

Yes absolutely, Adrenaline plays a great role. Barasingha is good eating but the Chowsingha ( Four horn ) is excellent and so is the Chinkara ( Indian Gazelle ) from the arid desert region.

Very well said depends on how the animal is shot. I have noticed a great difference in the meat between a well shot and a wounded animal. Habib Saheb alot of experience goes in saying that. Bapu.

As you just mentioned the price in your country SA here in India it would sell for $20,000/- I am not joking it’s true.

Thank you very much for all your suggestions. Finally picked up a leupold m8 6x.

Unfortunately in India ammunition more commonly available is S&B soft points and PPU soft points. Unless you are lucky to pickup some old silvertips

Unfortunately we don’t have excess to premium ammunition here in India. Beggars are no choosers sir.

Habib Saheb you have put it very correctly that on blue blues and even wild boars S&B break up many a times. But on leopards they don’t have weight retention as much as one would expect. In the last picture I have posted you must have noticed that it was a headshot and the bullet passed through.

My main head tracker on my right without whom hunting maneaters would have been difficult honestly “Ibrahim “ who taught me the jungle craft. Interesting have been on a few hunts with his father also as a child. They are professional trackers from a few generations.

Well a couple pictures of mine with the forest department proves that the were maneaters.

Mark-Hunter theses all look like forest leopards as they are big and dangerous. Don’t see much of a distinction honestly.

Honestly I have no experience of the snow or the clouded leopards. But yes in the books we always read about the two subspecies of leopards village and the forest. But what I have now noticed is it’s the forest leopards entering the village and killing humans coz both are big and dangerous now...