The Old Shikari Interview With Kawshik Rahman For 2021

Kawshik Rahman said:

I do not know if you European gentlemen consider boars dangerous , but l certainly am cautious near them. If they charge at you with their tusks , they may rupture the femoral artery in your leg.

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Oh, they can be very dangerous.
In the past they kill some kings and princes and ..., as they hunt them with bow, arrow or spear and knife.
They are more dangerous - if you read the old storys - as the (european) brwon-bear of wolf.

Even today, we had some injured and sometimes dead hunters.

Back to the lions, please.

a.)
This picture I have take in an old english gun-shop.
In the last year, personal (with their permission).
They say it is nearly 100 years old and it is from India and it shows India.

It is to 95%:
- An Indian gentleman, maybe an mahardscha
- It must be painted in India
- These are (to 95%) asiatic lions
- As you see the gun, it has an special stock (in German: Krüppelschaft), so he can be "injurded" (shoulder or eye or...).

Did anybody here have an idea "who the person is"?

b.)
Did you have seen lions in your region, sir?
Did you have watched them?
Did they have an separeted behaviour as the African lions?

Bullhunter said:

Back to the lions, please.

a.)
This picture I have take in an old english gun-shop.
In the last year, personal (with their permission).
They say it is nearly 100 years old and it is from India and it shows India.

It is to 95%:
- An Indian gentleman, maybe an mahardscha
- It must be painted in India
- These are (to 95%) asiatic lions
- As you see the gun, it has an special stock (in German: Krüppelschaft), so he can be "injurded" (shoulder or eye or...).

Did anybody here have an idea "who the person is"?

b.)
Did you have seen lions in your region, sir?
Did you have watched them?
Did they have an separeted behaviour as the African lions?

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Bull Hunter
I am afraid that l do not know who the person is .
I have not seen any lions I Darjeeling , no. Since l have never seen an African lion , it would be unethical for me to make a comparison with something l have never seen. As you know me by now , l never speculate on anything , but speak only from experience.

Thank you sir.
I have 30 and more pictures / paintings / books / pp. in my archive (and the copyright to use it), about hunting the Asian / Indian tiger.
(But this an other story, an other article.)

Frederick Arthur Bridgman, The Diversion of an Assyrian King

The Maharajah of Patiala with a Lion taken with a WR rifle in the Ghir forest.

Bullhunter said:

The Maharajah of Patiala with a Lion taken with a WR rifle in the Ghir forest.

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Bull Hunter
This picture l recognize. It is a 16 bore rifle .

I give a little more content.
Here are two more books (with some back-grouns infos of "asiatic/Indian lion hunt".

Bullhunter said:

I give a little more content.
Here are two more books (with some back-grouns infos of "asiatic/Indian lion hunt".

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Bull Hunter
This is most exciting. Sadly , lions were protected even in our time

Kawshik Rahman said:

lions were protected even in our time

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Thanks good that they are protected.
I read in the moment in wikipedia, the different of the african to the asian Lion and that are only "a few asian lions are alive in the forest of ghir in India".

Some last books, as an content for you, for the weekend.
Great storys and adventures.

Dear Mister Kawshik Rahman,

let us go one please.

HUNTING
Did you also hunt / guide with Indian clients?
Did you had contact to mahardschas (in your days)?

Bullhunter said:

Dear Mister Kawshik Rahman,

let us go one please.

HUNTING
Did you also hunt / guide with Indian clients?
Did you had contact to mahardschas (in your days)?

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Bull Hunter
Why yes . I had quite a good deal of Indian clients . Local Indian hunters or rich business men

Kawshik Rahman said:

Bull Hunter
Why yes . I had quite a good deal of Indian clients . Local Indian hunters or rich business men

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Did you have an example, please?
Or an story?

Clients were very successful with them against Sambhar deer and boar , but a gentleman from Norway almost got hit in the femoral artery by a charging boar because he could not operate those two triggers in his 9.3 millimeter mauser rifle fast enough when it decided to Charge.

Please, can you explain this more, sir?
Did you have other hunts, in witch clients get injurd (this is nothing against you, sir, this is the risk, this can happen, everybody knows this)?

Bullhunter said:

Clients were very successful with them against Sambhar deer and boar , but a gentleman from Norway almost got hit in the femoral artery by a charging boar because he could not operate those two triggers in his 9.3 millimeter mauser rifle fast enough when it decided to Charge.

Please, can you explain this more, sir?
Did you have other hunts, in witch clients get injurd (this is nothing against you, sir, this is the risk, this can happen, everybody knows this)?

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Bull Hunter
I will reply to that in detail here with a photograph for you in an hour or so. You have my word. Maybe sooner .

Bullhunter said:

Did you have an example, please?
Or an story?

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Bull Hunter
Oh , yes. Indeed , l do. I have a story here with a client from the middle east , called " Three Royal Bengal tigers in One day ".
It is not an Indian client , but it is an Asian client and perhaps it would interest you.

Bullhunter said:

Clients were very successful with them against Sambhar deer and boar , but a gentleman from Norway almost got hit in the femoral artery by a charging boar because he could not operate those two triggers in his 9.3 millimeter mauser rifle fast enough when it decided to Charge.

Please, can you explain this more, sir?
Did you have other hunts, in witch clients get injurd (this is nothing against you, sir, this is the risk, this can happen, everybody knows this)?

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Bull Hunter
Please. No formalities.
Let me answer the second part of your question first . The only time a client of mine ever did get injured was when he broke some rib bones in an tangle with a wounded Gaur. However , there were quite a few close calls .
Regarding boars , this a picture l own .

This is a Darjeeling boar shot by my client using a 12 bore pump operation shot-gun loaded with Brenekke slug projectiles .
But observe how sharp the teeth are.

Now , German double trigger bolt operation rifles have many virtues .
You can pull the first trigger to lighten the pulling weight of the second trigger. This makes for most accurate shooting. However , for fast shooting , it is the last configuration a Shikari could want .
Fast shooting is requisite for shooting any dangerous animals capable of charging at you.
Back in those days , boars were so common in the out skirts of Darjeeling that one did not even need a tracker to find them .
Our respected client was using a 9.3 millimeter mauser bolt operation rifle with double trigger configuration . He shot the boar fairly behind the shoulder . However , the problem was that he was using metal envelope cartridges and not soft head cartridges ( which could properly open up , inside the animal and cause more damage ) . The beast charged him and he tried to shoot it quickly , but panic overtook him and he fumbled with the two triggers . My late partner , Karim Chowdhury had to shoot the boar at a distance of eight feet with his Ishapore Arms Factory 12 bore side by side shot-gun , loaded with a Kynoch lethal ball cartridge , to stop the charge and finish it off.

Mr Rahman, if you will permit me to ask you a question.

I see along your writings you mention time spent in Bangalore.

Would you by any chance be familiar with the Muthanna family of Coorg ?

Thank-you in advance.

PaulT said:

Mr Rahman, if you will permit me to ask you a question.

I see along your writings you mention time spent in Bangalore.

Would you by any chance be familiar with the Muthanna family of Coorg ?

Thank-you in advance.

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PaulT
You will forgive me. I am not familiar with the name . I used to live and work in Darjeeling . Bangalore , l only used to occasionally visit for fishing .