BULLET AND SHOT 



the majority of the heads which are bagged, and 

 which are well worth securing, carry but ten points. 



In Rowland Ward's Horn Measurements, the 

 five finest heads quoted are one of 48, and four 

 of 47 inches each in length on the outside curve, 

 one of the latter bearing no less than sixteen points. 

 Colonel Heber Percy considers that an average 

 good head should measure 37 inches in length, 

 6 inches in girth above the brow antler, and should 

 carry the full complement of twelve points. 



Colonel Ward gives the following measurements 

 in detail of the two finest heads which he has seen, 

 both of them from the Sindh valley. 



Length of Girth above Divergency at tips. Number of 



Horns. brow antler. Greatest. Least. points. 



47 ins. ... 7f ins. ... 56 ins. 29 ins. ... 13 

 49 8 ... 50 32 ... 12 



The Cashmere stag sheds his horns late in March 

 or early in April, and then retires to remote soli- 

 tudes, where he roams apart from the hinds which 

 he has left behind him, the ladies for the most 

 part remaining in Cashmere. After the new antlers 

 have attained their full growth, and the season of 

 courtship and of war approaches, the stags return 

 to Cashmere, and once more seek the society of 

 the hinds. 



It is then that the sportsman has the best chance 

 of securing a few trophies, as the stags at this time 

 betray their whereabouts by " calling." Colonel 

 Ward states that the calling season extends from 

 about September 2oth (the date of commence- 

 ment being dependent upon the weather, and 



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