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BIG GAME SHOOTING 



legs with horns like a small sambur, the brow antlers coming 

 straight up from the burr at an acute angle without the hand- 

 some curve of those of the spotted deer. The stags are 

 reddish brown, their hair coarse and thick, their tails rather 

 long and exactly of the sambur type, their ears round, not 

 pointed like a spotted deer. When galloping through the grass 

 the hogdeer carries its head low, its horns laid back on the 



Hogdeer shooting 



neck, and its rump high. It 

 is found throughout the high 

 grass swamps at the foot of 

 the Himalayas and on the 

 islands and banks of the big 



rivers. High grass and plenty of water are its chief requisites. 



It expends through Assam to Burmah, and is also found in 



Ceylon. 



It is usually shot when beating the large tracts of grass in the 



Doon and Terai with a line of elephants, and affords pretty 



snap shooting from a howdah when better game is not expected. 



The does will squat in the grass till the elephants almost kick 



them up, but the way to get the best stags is to go well ahead 



