Kawshik Rahman
AH elite
Due to the encouragement of the founder of this magnificent web site , Mr. Jerome and a good number of other respected fellow forum members , l have decided to provide my dear readers today with a story of a Shikar which was memorable in a very positive way. This is the story of one of my final Shikars . Let us begin dear readers , by winding the clock back to March of 1970 .
It was in the middle of Shikar season , and every one of the Shikaris in Sundar Raj Shikar were preoccupied with guiding their clients after Royal Bengal tiger , leopards , Gaurs , Bears , boars or crocodiles. I was headed towards Sundar Raj Shikar early in the morning, as l was supposed to meet my respected client for the upcoming Shikar. He was a repeat client of ours and l had come to see him as a great personal friend. When l arrived , my respected client was drinking imported Turkish black coffee with Sundar Raj sir in his office. We greeted each other courteously . My client , this time wished to shoot two beasts :
One was a Sambar deer and the other , a leopard. This was a very simple request and certainly one which Sundar Raj Shikar could accommodate.
My client had brought two fire arms , both of which I had become intimately familiar with , by now.
One was a magnum .375 bore Model 70 by the American firm , Winchester . It was a rifle of an older vintage , because it has the mauser type extracting claw device . It was clean , but well worn . It's stock was split and was kept together by a glue of some sort and large bolts ( which my kind fellow forum member , Shootist43 kindly educated me , as to being called cross bolt )
For this rifle , he had brought a few boxes of the then-popular Winchester silver tip in 300 grain weight and two boxes of Winchester 300 grain metal envelope bullets .
The other gun was a 12 bore side by side shot-gun made by the Spanish firm , Astra, with 70 millimeter chambers . It originally had a fully choked barrel and a half choked barrel of 32 inch length. However , after an incident where the fully choked barrel had bulged in the past , my client had used a hack saw to remove 4 inches from the muzzle and had reduced the muzzle length to 28 inches ( and giving both the barrels zero choke ).
The gun had no ejecting mechanism , but rather had extracting mechanism.
Other than this , the weapon was in flawless condition and certainly a good one for close up work.
For this shot-gun , my client had brought 12 bore Alphamax cartridges from the English firm , Eley . These were LG cartridges and number 6 cartridges .
And thus , another exciting Shikar would begin , as the second part of this three part account shall relate.
Off into the Shikar field one more time
It was in the middle of Shikar season , and every one of the Shikaris in Sundar Raj Shikar were preoccupied with guiding their clients after Royal Bengal tiger , leopards , Gaurs , Bears , boars or crocodiles. I was headed towards Sundar Raj Shikar early in the morning, as l was supposed to meet my respected client for the upcoming Shikar. He was a repeat client of ours and l had come to see him as a great personal friend. When l arrived , my respected client was drinking imported Turkish black coffee with Sundar Raj sir in his office. We greeted each other courteously . My client , this time wished to shoot two beasts :
One was a Sambar deer and the other , a leopard. This was a very simple request and certainly one which Sundar Raj Shikar could accommodate.
My client had brought two fire arms , both of which I had become intimately familiar with , by now.
One was a magnum .375 bore Model 70 by the American firm , Winchester . It was a rifle of an older vintage , because it has the mauser type extracting claw device . It was clean , but well worn . It's stock was split and was kept together by a glue of some sort and large bolts ( which my kind fellow forum member , Shootist43 kindly educated me , as to being called cross bolt )
For this rifle , he had brought a few boxes of the then-popular Winchester silver tip in 300 grain weight and two boxes of Winchester 300 grain metal envelope bullets .
The other gun was a 12 bore side by side shot-gun made by the Spanish firm , Astra, with 70 millimeter chambers . It originally had a fully choked barrel and a half choked barrel of 32 inch length. However , after an incident where the fully choked barrel had bulged in the past , my client had used a hack saw to remove 4 inches from the muzzle and had reduced the muzzle length to 28 inches ( and giving both the barrels zero choke ).
The gun had no ejecting mechanism , but rather had extracting mechanism.
Other than this , the weapon was in flawless condition and certainly a good one for close up work.
For this shot-gun , my client had brought 12 bore Alphamax cartridges from the English firm , Eley . These were LG cartridges and number 6 cartridges .
And thus , another exciting Shikar would begin , as the second part of this three part account shall relate.
Off into the Shikar field one more time