Word: champawat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tiger-haunted Kumaon Hills, tracked his game successively with a catapult, bow and arrow, muzzle loader and .450, killed his first man-eating tiger in 1907. After that he was repeatedly called on by the government to track man-eaters, made his most famous kill when he got the Champawat tiger, which had eaten 436 people. He repeatedly voiced his admiration for the cats he hunted, killed them reluctantly and pressed for a stricter Indian game code to head off their extinction...
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