Indians For Guns

could you all please help me compile a list of good/ your favourite hunting/shikaar movies?

my personal vavourite is
the ghost and the darkness starring val kilmer and michael douglas.

Hatari
African Safari
Savage Harvest

Hmmmm, i'm foxed. scratching my brains for names i'd remember with fondness, but none appear (so far), apart from "the ghost...". i wasn't too fond of Hatari, and the recent BBC?ITV?channel 4? effort on the man eating leopard of rudraprayag was worse than big brother (honestly!). Having said that, it's just my opinion, and i'm sure others have found them good (my father swears on Hatari).

So, i'll vote for "the ghost.." then, even if jim patterson will turn in his grave to see michael douglas sharing the glory (usual hollywood .script twist ). but it's still great entertainment, and jerry goldsmith's soundtrack is simply divine !

Whats the fun of watching a old shikar movie when you cant indulge in that act here in our beloved country, a pity indeed.even pakistan i think has shikar permitted( refer PHA website).!

Maybe we all should sign up a petition stating that we should have a few controlled game reserves throughout the country and send it to the respective authorities.

Also in North India (UP) there are adverts in the paper placed by authorities that animals (Nilgai) entering the fields can be shot.

Can anyone in the North clarify this???

Errrr, thanks for the thoughts guys. Now, can we get back to shooter's topic please , before a prowling moderator person catches whiff of things

+1 for Hatari. I also like The Ghost and the Darkness. "You went into battle with an unproven weapon". I like that line

I recently saw Clint Eastwood's "White Hunter, Black Heart". I thought it was pretty good too.

thanks hamiclar would be happy to answer both the questions bout nilgai and pakistan shikar (in another thread).
but as hamiclar said, would appreciate if we all stayed close to the thread.

Dear snIPer
Ref your quote below,
"Also in North India (UP) there are adverts in the paper placed by authorities that animals (Nilgai) entering the fields can be shot.
Can anyone in the North clarify this???"

I have heard the following,
You apply for permit to shoot the Pests, to the local village Pradhan, who in turn will get it certified from the Local forest office, this permit is valid for only a day or 2 at the most, & if necessary a forest official might accompany you. (Which never happens) but you must be an active farmer in possession of agricultural land & with a valid gun license.

(PS:I am a luck man)

Hi Shamsher,
Thanks for that info - I was in Agra some years back and heard a lot about Nilgai hunting there.
Nice to know that it is true and that it is done on a small scale. Wish the same could be said for the rest of the country.
/S/

Ghost, Hatari, does the born free series qualify? I loved all of them and then not exactly hunting but the God's must be crazy and beautiful animals(? i forget the exact title) were also fun.


Want to see white hunter sometime.


Dev

i think you mean beautiful people(the one in which antelopes get tipsy)
i think they qualify for wildlife movies.
good stuff though.