India was actually more the home and destination of the Nitro Express rifles. Shikar in India was a great hunting destination. In addition to the wonderful safari destinations of Africa.

What a pity India doesn't continue to be a valuable Shikar destination today The forests and jungles aren't 30 to 70% of the region now, less than 5% today. But that 5% plus farmlands, are still rich in game Managed sustainable hunting would provide immense benefits to local people and these poor countries economically especially for wildlife conservation

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After effectively becoming banned in India, and also redundant due to ammunition no longer being available, the hordes of Nitro Express rifles, many were purchased and came to Australia. Thousands of them.

Innovative enthusiasts, Geoff McDonald of Woodleigh Bullets, Bruce Bertram of Bertram Brass and Bullets, Aussie made Simplex presses and dies, made equipment and reloading supplies, for us to reload these old otherwise redundant Nitro Express rifles and bore and BP firearms.

They were cheap from one thousand to three thousand dollars on the reselling market. Many travelled to the USA, and later also home to the UK A double rifle bought for a few hundred dollars in India, resold in Australia for up to $3000, sold into the USA, might sell for US$80,000, even more today

Too many are in large collections today and never used.

They deserve to see the sun, the dust, the blood and chase of the great hunting fields again.

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British India or the British Raj at its greatest extent from 1909 to 1947 (from 1937, British Burma began to be administered separately).