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The author with a marauding cheetah baagh leopard ; shot in 1976 .

The author with his giant cormorant ; shot on January 8 , 1972 .

A barking deer recently shot by the author .

Expanding bullet for reloading 400 grain Rhino solid shank One piece construction bullet for reloading 400 grain Northfork meplat solid Full metal jacket bullet for reloading 410 grain Woodleigh steel jacketed solid Expanding factory loaded bullet 400 grain Nosler Partition One piece...

Everything else being equal , solid bullets with meplat nose profiles ( such as this 500 grain Hornady DGS steel jacketed bullet ) will out penetrate solid bullets with blunt nose profiles . The problem is that many bolt action rifles do not feed properly with ammunition employing meplat nosed...

Keeping things strictly to the game of North America , I would say that the .338 Winchester Magnum covers all bases ( right up to Kodiak bear ) . My favorite factory loaded ammunition for this calibre would have to be the original 250 grain Nosler Partition. The new Winchester Model 70 Alaskan...

@ZG47 This is fascinating . Do you have the article ? I actually had a similar experience , as well . I first tried to take the rogue elephant out with a frontal brain shot . But the bullet deformed very badly . The lead core got squeezed out of the back of the bullet upon striking the...

@Newboomer Thank you very much . I will write one more tonight.

@Ridge Top Ranch , @Ridgewalker , @Doug Hamilton You are very kind .

@Wyatt Smith thank you . The real honor goes to those two children . They had it in them to forgive me for what I had done .

I hope that people have enjoyed my relating of this incident . If you people have found it interesting , then I will write two or three more over the course of the next few days .

I was later heartbroken to learn that the poor Upojati tribal man who had been killed by the royal Bengal tiger , was named Hiram . He had two small children - a seven year old son and a nine year old daughter. My actions on December 22 had indirectly contributed to his death and now these...

Joy and Niazur helped me wrap up the Upojati tribal man’s corpse in a sheet of tarpaulin and put it into the back of the jeep . I told them to drive the corpse back to the head office of the Maulvi Bazaar Forest Guards, and try to find out who the man might have been . Mean while , I was...

That night , I related what had happened to Joy and Niyazur . They both told me that God / Allah had protected me , because if that Royal Bengal tiger had decided to charge me ; then I would not have survived . We now realized that the marauder which we were dealing with , was not a cheetah . It...

The next day was spent making preparations . Niyazur and Joy took a great deal of effort in helping me out . We asked the Forest Guards about the locations where the corpses of the marauder’s victims were found . This , they pointed out to us . Niyazur also asked the Forest Guards if we could...

I had graduated from Murari Chand College in the winter of 1973 . And now I was working full time around the various tea estates in Habiganj , Sylhet and Maulvi Bazaar . During the weekends , I partook in many recreational activities . One of which included going on hunts . Sometimes I would go...

Tonight , I will relate a story of a hunting incident from the winter of 1976 . It features in chapter five of my book . It highlights the importance of taking proper preparation , when going off to hunt dangerous game . And why failure to do so , can have adverse consequences for not only the...

@Dinosaur Thank you so much for enjoying my writing . I hunt in Australia too , about once every three years . I visit Victoria and Perth . Which part of Australia are you based in ? Great Cormorant taste quite delicious as long as a sharp marinade is used . They can taste a little too fishy...

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@BeeMaa , I apologize . I am new to this forum and am slowly getting the hang of things here. I should have offered more details . The rifle is my .458 WM ( Winchester Magnum ) which is custom built on an Enfield 1917 action with a Douglas Premium barrel and a French walnut stock . The maker...

Recovered 500 grain Hornady DGS copper clad steel jacketed meplat ( flat nose ) solid ( fired from factory loaded ammunition ) . Chronographed velocity is 2137 feet per second .

.458 WM ( Winchester Magnum ) built on Winchester Enfield 1917 action by Flaigs ( Millvale , Pennsylvania) in 1973 . Douglas Premium barrel , French walnut stock . Very effective on Royal Bengal tigers , Asiatic elephants , wild boars and ( among more mundane things ) Axis deer .

@Major Khan Sir , @daawg1963 , @R.M.C. , @Red Leg , @Andrew Short , @Wyatt Smith and @mark-hunter Thank you all very much for enjoying my re-telling of this incident . I am really happy that so many of you kind people have enjoyed it .

I apologize if I made any grammatical errors or if my English writing could have been a little better . I am not accustomed to writing on social media and English is a second language for me . I hope that maybe some of you have enjoyed this story of mine. More such incidents ( and photographs...

I waited on the top of the Banyan tree , hoping that the cheetah baagh would show up . I did not have to wait very long . About 90 minutes later , I could see a dark silhouette slowly coming out of the foliage . It’s shape looked almost like a large wild dog or jackal . But I knew that it was...

From September onwards , there were an increasing number of grievances caused by a cheetah baagh leopard in the area around one of the tea estates in Habiganj . So far it had killed and fed on five locals . Two of them were children . One was a maid servant at the tea estate and two of them...

We drove the West Pakistani army out of our land , after an armistice was signed on the 16th of December , 1971 . East Pakistan became Bangladesh and a lot of rebuilding was necessary across the entire country . Both my mother and my father were killed during the West Pakistani airstrike at...

Since I am a new member of these forums, my first article here is going to be about how I was drawn into the world of hunting dangerous game as a young man . I am also going to relate the first time I shot a marauding Asiatic leopard in 1972 . Since this is my first time writing on social...

Thanks everybody , for welcoming me so warmly . I think I will share of my experiences in the “ articles “ section today .

Hello , My name is Professor Anayeth Mawla . I am based in Bangladesh and a close friend of Major Poton Khan , whom I understand is a forum member here . I am a hunter , a former war time serviceman ( conscription based ) and an author . I teach Environmental Management to high school children...