BULLET AND SHOT 



Whether it be intended to preserve the head for 

 stuffing, or only to keep the skull and horns, the 

 latter must be removed from their bony cores, and 

 this cannot be done till a few days after the animal's 

 death. The best plan, as soon as the horns can be 

 removed, is to rinse them out with common, cheap 

 carbolic acid, and also to paint the cores with the 

 same. Care must be taken, in boiling the head in 

 order to remove the flesh, that the water is not 

 deep enough to cause immersion of portions of the 

 horns, and the boiling should be carried no further 

 than is necessary for effecting the object in view. 

 Of course, should it be intended to preserve the 

 head for mounting, the lower jaw-bone must be 

 carefully kept. The body -skin of an antelope, if 

 pegged out in the sun, will dry in a few hours. 

 Nothing need be applied to it, except a coating of 

 wood ashes, while it is lying exposed with its raw 

 side uppermost. This could not safely be done 

 under a hotter sun than that of Mysore, as in 

 the plains at lower elevations all drying of skins 

 must be done in the shade. 



The best locality for black buck in the Mysore 

 province is the Chitaldroog district. This can be 

 easily reached from the various railway stations on 

 the Southern Mahratta Railway between Adjampur 

 and Devangere. Other good localities in Southern 

 India are parts of the Bellary district where the 

 horns run larger than they do in Mysore. It would 

 not, however, be worth the while of anyone who may 

 intend later on to go to the north, to waste time in 

 shooting antelope anywhere in the South of India. 



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