Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-09-13

"a account of tiger shooting as car
s. ried out in the Nepal Terai on
the occasion OF the kings visit
to that state, when the whole
available resources of the state, to-
gether with hundreds of shikar ele-
plants, were brought into use, with
most successful results. 1t does not
fall to the lot of every one, however,
to be the guest of a sporting ma
harajah, so it is proposed now to
gives the other side of the picture, and
TO show the form of the sport which is
available for the ordinary man, be he
civil or military officer or simple tour
list in search of big game shooting.
The central provinces of India are Sc
lected because they are best known,
and also provide typical sport. 1t must
not be supposed that anyone is at lib
erty to roam at will over these jun
giles, shooting wherever his fancy die
tates. The management of the jun
giles for shooting purposes is under
the control of the Indian forest depart
ment, and is regulated by fairly sim
various forests have been demarcated
and separated into blocks of con-
venient size, which are let out to ten
ants for short periods. The number
of head of the less common animals,
such as bison, etc, which may be shot
is strictly limited. Breach of this
rule, or the shooting of COWS, is pun
ishable by fine, and subordinate for
est official is, as a rule, told off to the
camp to exercise the necessary super
vision, writes ID. c." in Country
Life.
Hundred Beaters Necessary.
Let us imagine ourselves in the cen
ter of a good shooting district. The
village headman comes in and reports
that another village bullock has been
killed by tiger not far away, while
grazing with the herd in charge of
some small boys. The conditions be-
ing pronounced favorable, the order
is given for a beat the next day. Early
In the morning the shikari visits the
kill, locates the tiger lying up close
the beat and has maehans tied up on
selected trees. About hundred beat
ers are collected, and, soon after mid
day, when the stops have been care
fully posted and the rifles are up in
the machans, the drive is started
with great shouting and beating of
drums and tom-toms. If an elephant
is available, his services may with ad.
vantage be impressed for the occasion,
to strengthen and give confidence to
the line Of beaters. The tiger is most
probably sleeping off the effects OF
his heavy meal in some shady spot,
near water. On being disturbed by
the noise, he listens for time, then
gets up reluctantly, gives himself a
shake, and goes quietly off in front OF
the line of beaters to seek some quiet
er spot On making off to one side
he is turned back by tap on a tree
from one of the stops; the same thing
happens again when he tries to get
out in the opposite direction, until be
is gradually worked up to the desired
objective, when a straight shot at the
point OF the shoulder puts an end tc
| his existence, as depicted in the pho
tograph accompanying this article. II
must not be supposed from the forego
ing account that a tiger beat is Z
tame affair, devoid of the elements Of
sport. For everything TO go well, al
on the occasion depicted, presuppose'
considerable skill on the part of those
responsible for the arrangement of the
| beat. knowledge of the ground is nee
essary, also of where the tiger is like
ly to be lying up, of the line he viii
most probably take, and the stops
! must be carefully placed, or else the
tiger viii, after all, escape out of tbs
beat. In fact, even with the NOS
/ careful management, he frequentl.
does so. Then, as to the shot. 4
novice may well be excused II h,
( misses a tiger, even when walking