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Maneater of Thunag Shot
      #234120 - 12/08/13 10:27 PM



Maneater of Thunag Shot

Maneater hunted down by Hyderabad hunter Nawab Shafat Ali Khan. On Sunday Mr Khan shot the man eating leopard that had been hunting in the area of the Thunag hamlet in the Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh.

The leopard had previously killed and eaten a woman, Radha Devi, about a month ago, then eight days later another woman, Mani Devi, attempting to drag her from the family home. Two days later again, another body of Kashmiri Singh was discovered half eaten in the jungle.

Mr Khan answered a call by the Himachal Pradesh government to hunt and kill the leopard and used a .458 Winchester Magnum rifle to hunt the maneater.

Rain the previous night allowed Mr Khan to track the leopard through the hilly region dominated by thick forest. The leopard found lying in thick foilage early on Sunday morning, reportedly charged at Mr Khan as he came up to it. Hitting the leopard in the neck dropped the cat.

Hyderabadi hunter Nawab Shafat Ali Khan is the same hunter who killed the tiger in Faizabad in 2009 previously reported by NitroExpress.com.

As is often asked when these incidents occur, why did the leopard turn to eating humans, not its normal prey? It has not been reported if the leopard was old, or injured in any way. However it has been reported, it is believed the leopard hunted humans due to its normal prey of sambar and barking deer being scarce in the hilly terrain.

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Re: Maneater of Thunag Shot [Re: NitroX]
      #234121 - 12/08/13 10:46 PM


Sad it had to end like this but a top job again.

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Re: Maneater of Thunag Shot [Re: NitroX]
      #234125 - 13/08/13 01:03 AM

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Rain the previous night allowed Mr Khan to track the leopard through the hilly region dominated by thick forest.



Stones the size of mangoes.





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Re: Maneater of Thunag Shot [Re: HuntingSchneider]
      #234127 - 13/08/13 01:40 AM

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Stones the size of mangoes.



Perfect match for this enormous pussy...

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Re: Maneater of Thunag Shot [Re: tinker]
      #234136 - 13/08/13 05:02 AM

I think we have older pics of this gentleman here when he had shoot a tiger and maneater

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Re: Maneater of Thunag Shot [Re: 500Nitro]
      #234137 - 13/08/13 05:23 AM

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Sad it had to end like this but a top job again.



Whats sad about it Nige?

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Re: Maneater of Thunag Shot [Re: gryphon]
      #234140 - 13/08/13 05:39 AM



Oh, just the fact that a prime Leopard died
because of the conflict between man and an
animals habitat.

Not against hunting Leopards.

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Re: Maneater of Thunag Shot [Re: 500Nitro]
      #234150 - 13/08/13 10:41 AM

Tracking it down in thick forest with a scoped bolt action.
Bugger that !!
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Re: Maneater of Thunag Shot [Re: 375Brno]
      #234156 - 13/08/13 12:59 PM

knowing I had seen this gentleman before




http://forums.nitroexpress.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=130143&an=0&page=3#Post130143






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Re: Maneater of Thunag Shot [Re: lancaster]
      #234165 - 13/08/13 04:33 PM

Thanks Lancaster. Yes that is true, in 2009 the same gentleman shot a maneater tiger. I reported this on the NE facebook page, but not here yet. The FB page has had some stoushes with irate Indians that think the leopard should have been captured instead of killed.

Killing of elephants, tigers, leopards, whales, often gets greenies and even hunters with narrow perspective very upset. A lot shooters belonging to some prestigious gunmaker sites get very upset whenever elephant hunt photos are posted ...

Killing a man eater is not necessarily sport hunting but a public duty for a public good, and should be viewed like that.

Mr Khan is a very lucky modern day hunter and a successful man eater killer with now two cats under his belt.

(BTW somewhere people said his tiger photos were photoshopped with his head p-sed on the photo. His face is just lit well possibly by a torch.)

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Re: Maneater of Thunag Shot [Re: NitroX]
      #234176 - 13/08/13 07:39 PM

He must be a reasonably talented gentleman with a rifle. A great effort.

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Re: Maneater [Re: gwh]
      #234225 - 14/08/13 05:18 AM

There was an article in the newspaper dated 7-Aug-13 Delhi edition about a School teacher who has shot 42 man eating leopards in India with a Indian Ordinance .315 rifle.


Link to article/forum

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Re: Maneater [Re: Lynx]
      #234246 - 14/08/13 04:15 PM

Thanks for the link Lynx.

Interesting comments on that forum. The guy shooting any leopard in the vicinity of a maneater, without determining if it is the maneater or not.

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Re: Maneater [Re: NitroX]
      #234655 - 25/08/13 12:42 AM



Another photo supplied to me by the GunGeek.

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Re: Maneater [Re: NitroX]
      #234656 - 25/08/13 12:48 AM

Photos have been removed at the request of the sender.




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Edited by NitroX (31/08/13 04:32 PM)

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Re: Maneater [Re: NitroX]
      #234657 - 25/08/13 03:47 AM

as a hunt good like any other

great to see the MS 1910 still in action

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Re: Maneater [Re: lancaster]
      #234672 - 25/08/13 12:52 PM

The gentleman who has sent me the photos said the man-eating by leopards may be partly due to the large number of human carcasses from people who died in recent floods. The leopards having eaten the carrion.

In addition to this, the Indian media has claimed it is due to lesser game populations of traditional game being present in the areas the maneaters are operating in. Man becoming a substitute for sambar, ghoural, chital etc.

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Re: Maneaters [Re: NitroX]
      #234943 - 31/08/13 04:07 PM

New photos to be posted.

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Re: Maneaters [Re: NitroX]
      #234948 - 31/08/13 08:06 PM

Well done and yes I think that would of taken some balls.

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Re: Maneaters [Re: Rule303]
      #234959 - 01/09/13 02:29 AM

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Well done and yes I think that would of taken some balls.



Absolutely - akin to hunting brown (grizzly) bears in the alder thickets of BC and Alaska. Will make your skin crawl a bit - worse in the jungle, I think.

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Re: Maneaters [Re: DarylS]
      #235062 - 04/09/13 12:06 AM



Photos supplied to me by one of the hunting party. The Nawab Shafat Ali Khan with the second man-eating leopard shot by him. The report is this leopard was found in the same village where he had killed two women and injured one man. He was shot in the head with the .458 Win Mag rifle.


In India there is always controversy when a big cat is killed as a maneater. Many people believe as leopards and tigers are endangered they should not be killed. Either let be and presumably left free to kill humans at will. One Indian detractor told me, that thousands of Indians are killed on the roads each day, as if that is a answer ... Others suggest the leopards and tigers be captured and re-located. If capturing wild cats was easy and could be quickly done, I am sure that would be done. But easy to suggest after watching National Geographic on TV, harder to do in real life in a jungle. And indeed if approaching a maneater in a jungle with a hypodermic dart gun, that man would indeed have big ones, while he was still alive ... Sitting in a machan, that could work, but how many deaths might result while attempting these methods. Some claim it is not possible to identify the maneater. Hunters know animals can sometimes be identified. And in the end, the proof is if the killings stop.

Our fellow hunters in India have a hard time I feel. In a country of hundreds of millions of vegetarians ... well you can imagine how hunting is viewed. Historically too hunting was an activity for the rich and also foreignors. In the semi-socialist modern democracy, such an activity is usually forbidden. Personally I salute the guys that are hunting there, and hunting man-eaters is an honorable cause IMO.

This second photo is what it is really about. The Nawab is pictured with the husband of one of the women killed by the maneater.



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Edited by NitroX (04/09/13 01:57 AM)

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Re: Maneaters [Re: NitroX]
      #235071 - 04/09/13 01:00 AM

Seems to me that if a healthy Leopard population is so important to the folks decrying the killing of man eaters, then they could just as well fund the breeding and release of Leopards which have no man eating proclivities as replacements to those which need to be removed.
I suspect there are many cats captured which are not man eaters that could also be relocated to replace those that are killed.

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Re: Maneaters [Re: Huvius]
      #250504 - 15/07/14 10:55 PM



Nawab Shafath Ali Khan sahab's villa at Hydrabad

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