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I have hung up my boots and uniform. My old beauties are also reminders of a goneby era in India. Time for me to part with them. From top. 1. 425 Westley Richards manufactured 1919, restocked, original buffalo horn foreend and grip cap. The bore is as good as can possibly be for a 100yo rifle...

Hunting Indian Crocodile using a 22LR, with a brain shot to the back of the skull and that too on a Darjeeling tea estate. Wow.

I have an old Tiger Skin, shot and skinned in 1961. The skin is in good shape, but becoming brittle. Could the experts help me with some treatment which could add a few years to the trophy. Taxidermy as an art form is now over in India, so no local help is available.

I apologize for not including a glossary for the tale uses many words native to India British Raj : The period of British rule in India Verandha: A porch, usually wrap around (3 sided)in Jungle rest houses Cheetal or Chital: Indian spotted Deer Laathi: A...

Sorry , All I did was to post an absolute classic hunting story from the Jungles of Central India. The responses I got from these gentleman had nothing to do with the story but reflected their own social and religious beliefs. When they crossed the threshold I had to respond. Nothing for me to...

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You were, one, of the many employees of the Allwyn Cooper Shikar Company owned by my friend Vidya Charan Shukla. You were not a Shikaree nor the Head Shikraee, I have never heard your name being mentioned by the Late Shri VC Shukla. Many of your posts are nothing but utter nonsense.

You could be dead wrong. Do not ruin a great hunting tale by giving vent to your Muslim bigotry. The absolutely unchecked growth of Muslim population is the reason why wildlife is under threat in India. Muslims refuse to adhere to family planning, practice polygamy and reproduce more than...

You are the one who got religion into this, and that's the reason for Islamophobia

Sorry friend this is not what you said earlier.

"By the way ... The author of your article was a notorious anti hunter himself ." Wow wonder how you knew him. Major, you have been peddling a whole lot of trash about hunting in India on this forum and getting away with it. I too have spent a lifetime in the Indian jungle and still live there...

Oh my, an absolutely classic hunting tale hijacked by social and religious bigotry.

So you are not an Indian but a citizen of a country called Bangladesh. Thank you Sir. That explains everything. Allwyn Cooper and sons was incidentally a shikar company owned by the Indian politician Vidya Charan Shukla and guilty of numerous violations and poaching incidents. May I suggest you...

Are u an Indian? and have u lived, worked in Central India ?

I thought this was a forum restricted to hunting, not a place to expound religious or social beliefs and opinions.

The Kalibhit Maneater. Recovered from the memoirs of Late Ajay Singh Yadav, an administrator who worked in Central India. The tale beautifully captures the essence of the Indian jungle and the simple life of its brave inhabitants. The Kalibhit Man-Eater In the Harda Sub-division of...

Cant imagine hunting tigers at night. On a car/jeep with a spotlight yes maybe. But on foot at night a big NO

My guess is these measurements are over the curves.

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Just happened to pass by on my annual tour. It was a 450/400 I think. The tape might have been shrunk a little to please the Viceroy.

He probably used his 8 x 51 (.315) loaded with 244 grain bullets, never heard of anyone hunting leopards in India with a .22LR. A 12 bore with Buckshot 00 ammunition has often been used, but a 22LR only in an emergency.

Where are we hunting Crocs and Hippos ?

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Why so much of a negative pitch in almost all of Holland and Holland big bore rifles? One usually leans forward while firing a big bore.

425 Westley Richards , manufactured 1919 300 Holland and Holland (Super Thirty) ,manufactured 1935 375 H and H in Winchester Model 70 pre war, manufactured 1937

My old beauties All past their 80s :) 425 Westley Richards , manufactured 1919 300 Holland and Holland (Super Thirty) ,manufactured 1935 375 H and H in Winchester Model 70 pre war, manufactured 1937

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All seem to have forgotten the 425 WR. Nothing wrong with that rebated rim. It were the poor converted rifles which were responsible for the ill deserved early reputation. It is a classic cartridge, 2350 fps with 410 gr. Nothing beats it for pure nostalgia. I have a 1919 Westley with a 28 inch...

I have a lovely old 404 made by Schuler of Germany and retailed by Rodda in India. The date of manufacture should be in the 1920s. The rifle has a half octagonal/circular Krupp steel barrel, the underside of which is stamped 10,3 x 73. 10.3 is i understand the go, no go diameter of the largest...