John,
Why do you think that KA's stories are fiction? I have read those comments, made by some of the Indian members of various hunting and gun related forums, and I strongly suspect that their comments are just part of a modern day, Indian desire to discredit all hunting and, especially, all hunting by resident hunters. KA's son, Donald, was also a hunter and there is a biography of Donald now available. I have been in touch with the author of that biography and he wrote that biography with lots of input from Donald. The author also has a huge collection of photos, from KA, and some of those photos support his stories as being true and not fiction. I now have some of those photos for my book. To give you an idea of the Indian desire to discredit past hunters, I had one Indian on the KA facebook page, try to tell me that KA's son told him that his father never shot any tigers or leopards - yet that conflicts with Donald's own biography and also with the chapter, in one of KA's books, that was written by Donald! I also read some comments, by two Indians, who claimed that they had searched the records of the Indian government and could find no reference to KA ever shooting any maneaters - the only problem was that these two commentators only searched the records for the period of time AFTER KA's hunting days had ended - and so their conclusion was invalid.
cheers,
Bob