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n. - Large Indian antelope.

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  • Some years ago on a nilgai hunt in South Texas, I borrowed a 12-pound 8mm Rem.
  • Broken Arrow Ranch is allowed to send their sharpshooters onto the land and hunt wild deer, nilgai antelope, and boar.
  • I resigned myself to a major scope cut and pulled the trigger, but what I got instead was a gentle nudge and a dead nilgai bull.
  • They catch antelope, hares, pig and nilgai in their nets, and kill them with sticks and stones, and they dam up streams and net fish.
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