136 SPORT IN THE HIGHLANDS OF KASHMIR chap. 



we were spotted by one of the females, so I sat down 

 at once, and fired at the larger male. He was about 

 150 yards off, walking slowly away, and as I took too full 

 a sight, the bullet passed over his back. The herd 

 started off at a run, and the next bullet also missed, as 

 the lot disappeared into a snowy hollow beyond. We 

 ran after them, and lying down in the snow on the 

 top of the next rise, I had a couple more shots with 

 the 200 yards' sight up, but without effect. Once more 

 we ran on, as the herd was going slowly up the hill on 

 the opposite side of the glen, and getting on another 

 ridge I fired two more shots, again with no apparent 

 result. Then I put up the 300 yards' sight and aimed at 

 the nearer of the two males, and the second shot brought 

 him rolling down into the snow below. A couple of shots, 

 with the 400 yards' leaf up, at the more distant buck 

 produced no effect, and the remainder disappeared. 



That day, having run out of cartridges loaded with 

 Jeffrey's bullets, I was using others with bullets not slit 

 at the sides, but with only the nose cut off. I do not 

 know how far the alteration in the character of the 

 bullet was responsible for what we found. When we got 

 up to the ibex he was stone dead with three bullet holes 

 in him. One had orone clean throus^h the left horn 

 about 4 or 5 inches above the base. Another had gone 

 through one thigh, and the last, which had killed him, 

 had drilled a hole through the middle of his backbone. 

 In each case the hole of exit was but little larger than the 

 hole of entrance. The thigh was not broken up at all, 

 nor was the horn much injured. I cannot help thinking 

 that the slit bullets would have broken up, and would 



