BULLET AND SHOT 



Civil Service, and had great opportunities for the 

 sport) did much tiger shooting by this method. 



In Southern India, the sportsman is usually posted 

 on a rock, tree, or shooting ladder, and a crowd 

 of natives some of them employing horns and 

 tom-toms (native drums) endeavour to beat the 

 tiger up to him. 



This method is often, somewhat erroneously, 

 termed "tiger shooting on foot," though, if the 

 tiger should go on wounded after the shot, he must 

 be followed up on foot ; and this operation is the 

 most dangerous one which the Indian sportsman is 

 ever called upon to perform. 



Another method by which a tiger may be shot 

 is by watching for his return to feed upon the 

 carcass of a buffalo or a cow which he has killed ; 

 and, unless it be adopted under certain circum- 

 stances, e.g., when a tiger has killed in a large 

 tract of forest in which beating would be out of the 

 question, a chance (a poor one though it be) is 

 sacrificed. 



TIGER SHOOTING WITH BEATERS 



Wherever the jungles are not too large and 

 continuous, this method is the one which is most 

 frequently successful. A great deal depends upon 

 the cover in which the tiger is supposed to be lying 

 up after a heavy meal of beef. If this be of con- 

 siderable extent, and especially if intersected with 

 ravines, some of which diverge laterally from the 

 main longitudinal nullah, in the absence of men 

 well accustomed to the work, and of a large con- 

 no 



