BULLET AND SHOT 



old bull bison bears startling testimony to the ability 

 of the animal to support badly-placed lead, and I 

 have seen the head of one, which was shot by the 

 late Sir James Gordon, K.C.S.I. (and which was 

 killed by him with a single 16 or i8-bore bullet), in 

 whose carcass, the Kurrabas, on cutting it up, found 

 no less than thirteen bullets ! I have seen bullets 

 lying under the skin of newly killed bison, the 

 presence of each being evidenced by a round pro- 

 tuberance, a cut through the skin from the hunting 

 knife at once exposing the bullet. 



When a bison is shot in any forest in Mysore in 

 which there are Kurrabas, these little nomads re- 

 move the whole of the flesh, cutting it into strips, 

 which they then expose to the sun on a rock if 

 there should be one handy for the purpose and 

 so dry the meat for future consumption. The 

 sportsman can feel, therefore, that he is not killing 

 a large animal to waste. One caution, however, I 

 must give him, viz., not to put his foot upon a 

 slain bull, for, should he do so, owing to some 

 superstition of their own, the Kurrabas will not 

 eat its flesh. 



Personally, I hate following herd bison if there 

 are any single bulls about, for, let the sportsman 

 be as careful and as experienced as possible, the 

 fact that there are cows with the herd makes it 

 incumbent upon him never to fire unless he is 

 sure that the animal is a big bull. Now it follows 

 that since in a herd of say ten, fifteen, or twenty 

 bison, there is usually but one bull fit to shoot, the 

 chances are nine, fourteen, or nineteen to one 



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