NitroX
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| 08/11/07 03:44 AM |
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Re: Indian - Was the Cheetah really a wild animal in India?
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The problem with regulated hunting in India is the fragmented nature of the forest areas. It is rare to find contiguous wide spread forests without any villages in the middle & so it is impossible to control the boundaries.
No harm dreaming.
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In the South Indian Shola in the Palani Hills ranges are short and most boar are shot with shotguns loaded with ball when the rains start and they come to eat rotten fruit under the trees. There are similar hunts in Coorg and possibly in Maharashtra. In Punjab and Haryana where the terrain is more undulating but where farms tend to be much larger than the South dogs or beaters are used, mostly with rifles.
Congestion - a real problem in some parts - only means that the terrain is ideal for MLs or for rifled shotguns. If this could be done in Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana there is no reason why it cannot be done in India. There have been studies performed by the Indian Forests and Fisheries Services on this subject that are posted at Indians For Guns and which I shall get permission to post here. Suffice it to say that the expertise of those who conducted those studies is vastly more respectable than that of a non entity with little to show.
Your country is very populated but I certainly saw areas (outside of the parks) where hunting would be possible with appropriate attention to safety. Especially in more mountainous country where the backdrop is more safe.
And as you say, using heavy shot in shotguns would be reasonably safe in flatter country.
Please see if you can post the information you refer to. Thanks.
It would be wonderful to see Indian citizens with a sporting hunting drive being able to hunt legally in their own country again.