Indians For Guns

check out the link below for the free book. some good read
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=aScA ... &q&f=false

good reading ! must be better doing it but well....
u guys come up with good stuff.

Thanks a lot naga.

superb!!
the most wonderful thing is killing African buffaloes 23 out of 23 with a high velocity .22 rifle. (hunting by Mr. Bell. Page No.62)
Really surprised, how lethal this small bore is.
Very nice book.

Thanks Naga

Mr bell shot 1000 elephants with a soft nosed 7.62 mauser. the .22 was centrefire though.
But that was bell and it is not recommended for others. In fact it is illegal.

faisal wrote:superb!!
the most wonderful thing is killing African buffaloes 23 out of 23 with a high velocity .22 rifle. (hunting by Mr. Bell. Page No.62)
Really surprised, how lethal this small bore is.
Very nice book.

Thanks Naga

while there are (I believe) some records of even an elephant being taken with a .22 - I'm pretty sure the .22 here is a centrefire. I am Yet to see a .22 LR with a 80 grain projectile. Have seen Aquilas at 60 grain though they are definitely subsonic rounds - just too heavy to propel at supersonic speeds.

Hello Guys,,
Wow... Looks like there are lot of you who are interested in reading Big game hunting books. Me too I love reading these books got many of them from my father and collected a lot on my own...
I have got a small collection of these books as PDF files.. Anyone of you interested do let me know I'll be happy to share with you guys..
some of the books in my collection are--
1. Big Game Encounters - by Stanley Jepson
2 . Tiger Land - C E Gouldsbury
3. Maneating Leopard of Rudryaprayag - Jim Corbett
4. Maneaters of Kumaon - Jim Corbett
5. Highlands of Central India - Capt. Forsyth
6. One man and Thousand Tigers - Col. Kesri Singh
7. Days and Nights of Shikar
8. Seonee - Camp life in central india- Sterndale
9 . Bullet and Shot in Indian Forest, Plain and Hill - Russel
10. Sport and Adventure in the Indian Jungle- Mervyn Smith
11. The Tiger Hunters - By R G Burton
12. Sporting days in Southern India- Pollock
and few more..
Anyone interested PM me ..
And if you guys have some related books do share...

Cheers....

All great books, Tonygunlover but all relatively regional.
Growing up in India, I read all the Shikar books I could get my hands on but later I was also fascinated by Africa. Of course, visiting Africa was nothing like I imagined but that is another story.

Peter Hathaway Capstick was a PH in Africa and wrote many books that make absolutely riveting reading.
You can sample some of his stuff here:
Death in the long grass
Death in silent places
Death in a lonely land

There are many more of his books available.
His writing style is very descriptive and as the pages in the book unfold, you can smell the blood and trampled ground, hear the gunshots and feel the fear as you go after some of Africa's most dangerous game.

xl_target wrote:All great books, Tonygunlover but all relatively regional.
I was also fascinated by Africa. Of course, visiting Africa was nothing like I imagined but that is another story.
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What's the story ?

Nothing earthshaking, Prashantsingh.
I was very excited when I first went to Africa. Expected to meet exotic people and see exotic animals. So we ended up in Nigeria, a few years after the Baifra war, where one side starved the other out. Didn't even see stray dogs on the street. Every morning when we woke up, something felt wrong. It took a while to figure out that what was bothering us was that there were no birds chirping in the trees.... or anywhere. Bummer, just my luck! Went to Africa but was in the wrong to country to fulfill any of my African expectations
As for meeting exotic people; there were thousands of Indians in Nigeria and like most other countries outside of India, they have these huge "Indian Associations". Every spare moment is spent with other Indians. I never really got to meet and share views with other Nigerians. So when I came to the US and I was approached to join an Indian Association, I ran the other way. It's not that I wanted to ignore my heritage, I just wanted to experience different viewpoints and ideas.

I was reading a book by an Indian historian liked the Nigerian or some african Saying " Until Lions have their own historians tales of hunt will always glorify the hunter" This is in context to hunting animals with .22 etc..

Best

Dear xl and ngrewal,
Here is a funny one. A personal experience , very different from what xl had.
We all have our fascination to Africa.
Many people have the same towards India. I have met foreigners going back really disappointed ...unable to see a tiger in the wild. Doesn't everyone on a visit to the jungles "expect" to see the Tiger. All those stories we have read and heard, and the pictures we have painted around them, are very different from the "Real" thing. Instead ....like many claim.....The only "wildlife" they got to see in abundance was the Holy Cow , Water Buffalo and street dogs.
I had been waching a lot of "Animal Planet" to learn something about the African animals before I made my trip . When I first reached the Game reserve I was going to , I was disappionted. The massive savanas appeared empty and devoid of animals. (I was actually expecting to get really close to the lions and watch them tearing on the flesh and crunching bones as they had their fill.). Half an hour drive into the reserve and my guide spotted a herd of black wilderbeast. Small black dots on the horizon. "Look Wilderbeast" he shouted in excitement.
I looked hard and said "Must be. If you say so . To me they look like ants ".