BULLET AND SHOT 



had magnificent opportunities of bagging aged ibex 

 and markhor in a practically virgin locality. By 

 the time that it will have become settled, and safe 

 for ordinary sportsmen, the vicinity of Gilgit will 

 probably be played out so far as large heads of 

 both of these wild goats are concerned ; and anyone 

 who may desire large heads will have to go beyond 

 the area hitherto shot over to find such. 



The country inhabited by ibex consists of rocky, 

 precipitous hills at high elevations, and, in the most 

 favourable season for shooting the game, just above 

 the snow-line is the point at which to look for it. 

 The animals, lying up in the rocks and snows 

 above, descend in the evenings to crop the new 

 growth of herbage springing immediately after the 

 melting of the snow below. 



In shooting all hill game, it is desirable to at 

 least spot it from above. The situation may be 

 such that a shot from the same level, necessitating 

 the sportsman's descent before he can take it, may 

 afford more chances of keeping the game, once it 

 be disturbed, in view, in order to obtain several 

 consecutive shots ; but the tendency of all wild 

 animals is to look down-hill, and it is advisable 

 to sight the game from a point of high vantage, 

 to avoid the fatal alternative of being first observed 

 by the keen-sighted wild goats. 



Needless to say, the wind plays a most important 

 part in this, as in all other kinds of hill stalking, 

 and in all hill ranges the wind is often very tricky. 

 Any of my readers, who are fond of target shooting 

 at long ranges, will clearly gather my meaning, even 



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