INDIAN ANTELOPES 



administering the coup de grace, avoid standing 

 in such a position that the animal, if it be still 

 alive, would be able to kick him. 



Length of horn appears to be no criterion of 

 age in the case of antelope. Frequently young 

 brown bucks have fine horns better sometimes 

 than those carried by the majority of their black- 

 coated brethren in the same locality. 



A horse or pony is a very useful aid to the 

 sportsman when out antelope shooting. Walking 

 long distances over the hot plains is very trying, 

 and frequently many miles must be covered in a 

 day. Some men have ridden down a wounded 

 buck till the latter has dropped from exhaustion, 

 or have speared him from horseback, but I have 

 personally never attempted either of these courses. 



I have shot black buck chiefly with a double 

 500 express rifle, using generally Eley's hollow 

 copper-tube small bullet, weighing 340 grains ; but 

 I have also shot about twenty with a friend's double 

 360 express rifle, and I found that the latter killed 

 them well and cleanly. Upon this point, however, 

 the experience of a Major in the -ipth P.W.O. 

 Hussars (who has shot a great number with his 

 360) is somewhat at variance with my limited 

 experience of antelope shooting with that bore, his 

 opinion being that the '360 is scarcely powerful 

 enough to kill them satisfactorily. Sir Samuel 

 Baker recommends a '400 bore rifle for this 

 game. 



Though I have not yet used the weapon, except 

 in a few entries one meeting at the running deer 



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