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Retriever and spaniel help bag a Tibetan antelope

June 6, 2012 by SWestfall3

Tibetan antelope (Pantholops hodgsonii).

The following account of two “strange deerhounds” comes from Large game shooting in Thibet, the Himalayas, Northern and Central India (1892) by Alexander Angus Airlie Kinloch. The author is out hunting a Tibetan antelope in very rough country, but he is unable to do so without the assistance of his two gun dogs, creatures that most British sportsmen would have relegated to small game hunting:

On the second evening I found a herd on some terraced ground, and placing myself in a favorable position, waited for them to feed up to me. A fine buck at length came within one hundred and fifty yards, and when he was broadside on, I fired steadily at him; he fell to the shot, but was up again directly and made after the others. Having reloaded, I followed him and fired both barrels within easy distance, but I was so blown with running that only one of my bullets hit him, and it only grazed his foreleg. The first bullet had struck him high up in the hip and passed through the intestines, part of which were hanging out, but in spite of this he seemed to recover strength and went off at a great pace, luckily in the direction of camp. I followed as fast as I could, but was soon left far behind. I sent to camp for my two dogs (a retriever and a spaniel), and contented myself with watching the buck, who soon lay down in the middle of an open plain. On the arrival of the dogs I approached him, on which he got up and went off at a very fair pace. I hallooed on the dogs, who quickly entered into the spirit of the thing and gave chase. Antelope and dogs soon disappeared in a ravine, and on running up to the bank I had the satisfaction of seeing the buck on the ground, and the two dogs barking at him; strange deerhounds! but they did their work well. The kill took place not three-quarters of a mile from camp (pg. 151).

 

Posted in Retriever history, wildlife | Tagged retriever, spaniel, Tibetan antelope | 5 Comments

5 Responses

  1. on June 7, 2012 at 5:23 am Peter Dawson

    Yet another atrocity story, retrieverman!


    • on June 7, 2012 at 8:25 am retrieverman

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  2. on June 7, 2012 at 8:53 am retrieverman

    The Tibetan antelope is now endangered because there is a market for its wool. They are being shot for their wool, and they also compete for rangeland with domestic stock.


  3. on June 7, 2012 at 11:12 am Jen Robinson

    No surprise here. It takes work/training to keep gun dogs from chasing deer.


  4. on June 7, 2012 at 5:57 pm Peggy Richter

    One can concieve of a similar tactic by the early hunters armed with spears (or atlatl & throwing sticks) using a several generation domestic wolf to do the same thing with deer, bison, etc.



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