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I didn,t have a .458 mag.
If my calculations are correct , then one American Dollar is the equivalent of 35 to 40 Indian Rupees , normally .
SirToday?
Or in the old days?
SirI used to be paid 4000 Rupees for a standard package Shikar ( two species ) , 3000 rupees for a budget package Shikar ( one species ) , 5000 for a mega package Shikar ( three species ) and 6000 for a deluxe package Shikar ( four species ) . Trackers would typically be paid 500 Rupees Coolies were paid 200 Rupees.
So in US-Dollars:
80 Dollar for two species
132 Dollar for three species.
160 Dollar for four species
Everything was included?
Tax, Outfitter, pp.?
Did you/they stayed im Hotels? Or in tends in the forest.
And:
(An hot question)
What was about tipping?
On witch way?
How mutch?
And what did you think (personal) about it (we had this several time sin many thread, then it comes to hunting big game)?
SirHow many other people was included the hunts?
(Exeption, you (PH) and the client.)
Driver, tracker, gun-bearers... and...?
The skinners are in town? Taxidermy?
Did you use horses, elephants or dogs?
Or plans?
Or...?
You had written in other threads, that you normaly use the hunting-methods "stalking" and "baiting with animals".
Did you make driven hunts also?
Tracking?
And...?
Mark HunterLooking at the map, location of Darjeeling, i see Bhutan and Nepal are close by.
Question, for Buthan and Nepal: was there then, and is there now any legal hunting?
A younger friend of mine , however , has . He is alive and very healthy . If you ever wish to contact him , let me know .
In my life , l have supervised two Shikars using macchans on top of elephants. One went uneventfully . The other almost resulted in a leopard reaching our client ( l had arrogantly assumed that leopards cannot spring up elephant macchans in real life ). What a horrible day to be proven wrong
Bull Hunter
I read this kind of storys many times.
Also this kind of drawings are common in the old books about "hunting in old India".
This video will give everyone an idea what it must have been like.Bull Hunter
Sadly , l did not believe this at all until 1965 when l saw it happen with my own eyes. I was terrified for the client.
Red LegThis video will give everyone an idea what it must have been like.
KurpfalzjagerVery dangerous animal.
Luckily , in the short time I have been hunting in southeast Asia , I never meet one , always just seen tracks. I's not safe to hunt Sambar deers , the meat of the tigers , if you don't sit on the back of an elephant !
KurpfalzjagerThe elephant does not try to fight with the tiger ?
The african elephants seem to be more aggressive.