BULLET AND SHOT 



elevations, and granted a severe winter, sport may 

 at that season be obtained with them. 



Colonel (then Captain) W. spent a winter in 

 Cashmere some sixteen years ago. He saw stags 

 but once, and then encountered six or seven of 

 them all together in a glen during a blinding snow- 

 storm. Being a magnificent shot, than whom few 

 men could do more with the rifle, he made the 

 most of his opportunity, and bagged no less than 

 four of them, the last being, he told me, shot at 

 a range of at least 400 yards. 



Colonel Ward and General Kinloch agree in 

 stating that the incursions of tame buffaloes have 

 been steadily ousting the deer from their former 

 haunts, and forcing them eastwards in the direction 

 of Kishtwar, Badrawar and Chumba. 



So fine a trophy, as a large and well set up head 

 of this stag, must tempt every sportsman who may 

 have the opportunity of seeking him with any 

 prospect of attaining his object, to exercise con- 

 siderable patience, and to spend upon his quest 

 as much time as he can spare till success has 

 rewarded his efforts. Colonel R. Heber Percy, 

 in the Badminton volume dealing with the large 

 game of India, states that he prefers the higher 

 and more open ground, to the gloom of the pine 

 forests at lower elevations, as the field of sport 

 during the first part of the calling season, but 

 adds that about October ist, if snow has been falling 

 on the higher hills, and frost at night has set in, 

 the deer should be followed down into the pine 

 forests. The admirable directions of this author 



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