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ELEPHANT SHOOTING.

ELIMINATING · THE : ROGUE.

For the very may men in India who are keen on shikar the announcement in a Provincial Gosette that a rogue elephant in a certain" district has out- lived his time and that his immediate elimination is matter of extremos desirability is a point of merely heademic interest. Unless the sportsman happens o be within reasonable distance of the scene of action, there are far too many difficulties to be overcome. The man with unlimited time and money at his disposal is of course, in a position to chake rogues until he is tired of it, or until he comes to an unpleasant end through the instrumentality of an enraged hathi. But to the ordinary person the undertaking of a long trip with the object of shooting a proclaimeil rogue is a too uncertain affair to prove a great attraction, Accordingly the average man limits his ambitions to more accessible game. At the same time, ho certainly misses a lot in the.. way of shikar. thrills In many- possibly most cases shooting an ele phant, when it is all over, is actually shout os dangerous as shooting dhobi's donkey. On the other hand, if there is any trouble it is likely to be of the most lively king. There are fortunate "individuals who have shot se

tiger that a charge is a very ordinary part of the day's work. Bat the excitement that a charging elephant can provide is calculated "to satisfy the most hlase of sportsmen in this country:

NERVY WORK.

However experieneed a man may be in pursuit of other game, he will find the rocess of working. up to his first elephant a decidedly nervy business. In the most unlikely event of his fading" the beast in the open, he can, if he likes, try long range shots at a hundred yards or so. It he does it is a thousand to ono against his doing more than either scaring bie quarry out of the neighbour- hood or provoking a charge which he will be lucky if ho survives with nothing more than a bad fright. What will far more probably be the case is that the elephant will be in the jungle, and the sportsmari will have to get up to him. In ordinary circumstapers it is not diffenit. There are unpleasant animals which charge on sight anything on two legs and seen to spend all their time looking for an opportunity of mak- ing trouble of this nature. But they are the exceptions. Generally speaking is is easy enough to get a fair chance; the difficulty lies in turning that chance to the best account. In normal cir cumstances the elephant is an unmapici- ous beast. The enly enemy has to fear is a high velocity rifle in the hands of raan, and as meeting with that enemy is not a matter of everyday. occurrence, it is not as a rule on the alert as is the case with others animals. Its eyesight is not purticularly | Sre good, though it is better than is gen erally understood. The noise it makes when feeding or moving through jungle' help to render its arufe powers of hear. ing less protective than they otherwise would be and enables it to be approach- ed with comparative ease. The sense of smell is good, and it is this which the sportsman has to watch most carefully. But once an elephant is wounded or seri ously alarmed its faculties begin to work overlime and getting up to it is a very different matter. Either it will clear out at a pace which gives the sportsman little hope of coming up with it again, or it will stay and fight the matter out.

-THE FIRST SHOT.

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It is essential, therefore, that the first shot must be properly placed. This is not easy. With the Indian elephant the hend shot is invariably taken, and it comparison with the bulk of the animal the size of the brain is minute. An elephant standing broadside on presents an area of some seventy or eighty square feet. Out of that the bullet has to be placed somewhere in a target of per- haps a dozen square inches. It is easy to understand, therefore, how difficult it is for anyone to gauge the spot at which to sim, the more so when, as is prob ably the case, excitement is making the foresight trade patterns comparable with the markings on the temperature chart of an enteric patient. Any reasonably large calibre cordite rifle will send solid bullet far enough into an elephant's, head to reach the brain from any angle. But unless the shot is judged to a nicety, there is more than a possibility of, its course being diverted by the teeth or one of the massiva bones. Moreover, the brain is anywhere, but where one would expect it to be. As a matter of fact, a skewer passed into ono ear and but-of the other will just about transfix the brain, and that is a point which the sportsman has to keep firmly in mind. and judge the angle of his shot necord- ingly. In doing so, however, he must not forget the relativs positions of the upper teeth-the tasks do not come into

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the matter much-and the jawbones,ward into the neck and so to the brain. For some reason or other, there seems But, whatever shot is taken, it means to be a widespread opinion that the best working out the angle to a nicety, as shot to talse is the frontal one. The an elephant's brain is extraordinarily sooner that idea dies out, the better, small in comparison with the size of There is an opening in the front of the its head and body. skuil through which a bullet can travel comfortably to the brain. But for the AVOIDING TROUBLE. bullet to pass through that, the head. The best moral "support in any circum must be at the right angle As it is very stances is the presence of a good, stout seldom at the right angle, the chances tree. A shot is more often taken at un- are all on hitting the heavy frontal der thirty yards than over that range boue in which case there is no knowing That means that unless there is some where the path of the bullet will... thing behind which to hide in the event except that it certainly will not be of trouble, there is no time to do any to the brain. Moreover, if the elephant thing hat stand still and hope for the is hit and not dropped it will automa best Failing a tree a brush or clump tically run, forward, and the hunter will of undergrowth is better than nothing, have lively time getting out of the but it is worth remembering that an way." A better shot is into the hollow elephant can go through the thickest of the temple, gauging the angle to the bush Castly man can walk brain and taking care to avoid the upper through eighteen-inch-high grass. Still teeth. The hest and easiest one of all the object is to keep out of sight, and is from the side into the ear, though the bush does help in that direction, another good one is behind the jaw for even though it presents no obstacle to

the elephant's approach The cardinal and gauge where the bullet has to ber principle of avoiding trouble is getting placed, and even when the exact spot has and keeping out of sight, for once a heen dooided upon it is not always eary wounded elephant starts looking for an to hit An elephant never seems to be aggrczsor it can see considerably better standing quita still. Even when it in then quite a number of people seen, to, dozing its head is swaying slowly and I think it can. Moreover, it has its so almost imperceptibly. But the move?

of smell to help it, and that is exeerding. I ment is quite enough to spoil the aim ly acute. The sportsman's object is to and wnd the best intentioned ballri kill his rogue with a clean shot through hopelessly astray udless duc allowance the brain. He may have studied the is made for that fuct. head of an elephant and imagine that he Finally there are two things worlik has got the whole of the internal bearing in mind. Men like Bell who structure firmly fixed in his mind have shot their hundreds of elephantec When it comes to the actual thing, how-t in Africs can afford to trust to their ever, it takes a lot of self-control to re- uerve and straight shooting sufficiently member what has been learned. As likely to me a small calibre rifle. But others -as not he will find that his omarry has who have not had that experienen" sex get some sort of inkling that all is no better off with the heaviest weapon they well and is standing with head up no can use with comfort. It takes a trunk feeling the wind Thon the best shock to stop or turn in chargin of intentions are apt to go astray, and elephant, and a big solid bullet propell all those nicely thought-out amples red by a big charge of cordito is the best

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