The Temple Tiger by Jim Corbett | Audio Story | Man Eaters of Kumaon 

Thank you, best and looking forward to more this year.

All the best to you in the new year also. Thanks for the wonderful tales and your mellifluous delivery good sir.🙏🏻

Happy New Year! Great narration as usual. Thank you as ever. Ben

Happy new year @selvalore. May all your dreams get fulfilled.

Wishing you the same. I know these stories written by Corbett would be limited, but do try to post more often. Me and many like me check every night if you posted a new video. Keep up the good work!

me neighter, ive already heared all of them like 5 times or so

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Nicely put! Thank you for the comment

Fascinating! Thanks for clearing that up. That last line which was crossed out is very pertinent.

The Westley Richard’s rifle in this story had one trigger. Jim was not used to a “two stage” trigger. A two stage trigger has a long springy pull (the first stage) followed by a distinct wall (the second stage) when you continue adding reward pressure to the trigger after hitting the 2nd stage the rifle will fire. A single stage trigger (when cocked) has only a distinct wall which when the correct weight is reached the sear on the trigger releases the firing pin which fires the rifle. (This was what Jim was used to) The confusion happened when Jim felt the first stage of the two stage trigger. This springy feeling is very similar to the feel of a single stage trigger that is not holding back a firing pin (or in other words a rifle that is not cocked). When a single stage trigger is not cocked the trigger has no distinct wall and feels springy and gives way when pressed. Jim confirms that on feeling the trigger give way 😊his first suspicion was that he forgot to load the rifle. When in fact he had loaded the rifle but failed to pull through the second stage.

I couldn't have said it any better! Thank you for an excellent comment!

Thank you! Words like these fuel me to keep going. You speak so fondly of the place here and in the other comments as well, that I do hope you get to visit those beautiful foothills again (or whatever's left of its old charm). I might read something from JE Carrington Turner again this summer. His stories are also set in Kumaon. Not to mention, there is a lot of Corbett still left.

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Cheers and thank you!

Thanks for listening!

Way too kind but thank you!

He does, you do take us all to India❤

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Thank you!

Do you remember the name of the movie please?

@@paulreilly3904 I remember it was a national geographic. movie

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Absolutely, thanks for the comment!

Thank you! Just happy to share these amazing audiostories

Ah yess! I would love to do this too. A bike expedition to all those places just sounds amazing to me. You might want to check out Shreyas Ranganath's channel.

@@selvalore yesss I watch his videos! Amazing efforts 👌

Thank you for saying that!

You as well Joe! Thank you

Thank you for such gracious words. I appreciate your comment, Arun ji!

@@selvalore God bless you Viraj Ji

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You're very welcome and a happy new year to you too!

Thanks Paul! Happy New Year to you too, always happy to see a comment from you!

Indeed, and thank you for the comment!

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Thank you! Always great to hear from Down Under!

Amazing! Thank you as always for listening to them.

Thanks for saying that and happy to hear that these are helping in some way.

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Appreciate the comment!

I wonder why that was the case. Regardless, thanks as always for listening!

​@@selvaloremy schedule this week has been very time consuming... Normally, I finish the first time I open the file...

@@dkcorderoyximenez3382 Oh I understand! Glad it had nothing to do with the audio. Thank you for making the time to listen to these!

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Happy to hear that and thank you for the comment!

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Thanks Jeff!

Listening you narrating Corbett’s stories is one of the best experiences with RU-vid. are you located in Dallas? If so let’s meet some time if possible 😊

Thank you Sushil ji! Yes, I'm in dallas. Email me at selvalore21@gmail.com

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Thank you I appreciate the comment. Wishing you the same as well!

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yessss exactly the same feeling 😊 esp when I do kenneth anderson trails while biking 😊

So true!!

Mr. Hay's thank you for the comment! About the watch thing, I really wouldn't know. A quick search tells me they are Swiss, so I highly doubt they do their manufacturing in India. About the recordings, the earlier ones were largely unedited and were done on poor equipment with very little understanding of the technicalities of audio recording. As I have gotten better at the recording part, I have also tried to slow down and enunciate more. But as someone who is not a trained voice actor/narrator, its always a challenge to figure out the right speed, tempo and how much intonation to add. It's a delicate balancing act. I don't want to go deadpan either but too much inflections might be off-putting at times as well. Any feedback on this from listeners like you will greatly help.

Haha, yes what a good troll it turned out to be! Thanks for listening

"loud dad noises" xD

Lovely to hear that Aamir and thank you!

Happy to hear that. Thank you for the kind words Noopur Ji! Yeah I'll get around to reading something from My India sometime.

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Great to hear from you Alex and a happy new year to you as well!

Thanks for the comment! Next project is in the works.

Thank you! Wish you the same

Thank you my friend from down under! I think I chanced across an interesting crocodile tale from the Northern Territory in one of the books I was going through. I might read it if its not copyrighted.

​@@selvalorei would be ecstatic!!

Thank you for this. I wish the same for you too!

To you as well and thanks for the comment!

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Bitte, Carl!

Yes, they are! Thanks for commenting

Much appreciated, Ed! Hope all's well with you

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Thank you for all the comments, Rajiv Ji!

@@selvalore listened last night. Thank you. Enjoyed it. Nice work. I think what you are using for the different voices is working very well. Kudos!

​@@RajivSambasivanthank you Rajivji! I dont have the ability to do that many different voices. So I altered mine to make it sound different.

@@selvalore I thought you use one of these AI voice changers - not too difficult to do. Apratim, would love to see other content from you. You should explore - you have a gift for this.

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Thanks for listening Barry!

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As far as I'm aware, Mr. Corbett maintained his stance on tigers smell being poor in his writings and there is no evidence of him refuting himself in any of his non-maneater eating books. He mentions it on a couple of occasions in his stories. Both of those are from his last book "Temple Tiger and more maneaters of Kumaon" (title story and Chuka maneater story). In my opinion when Mr. Corbett refers to tigers having "no sense of smell", he is in fact implying that tigers do not rely on their sense of smell for survival to the degree that some of the other animals do. He is not suggesting that they do not have any sense of smell at all. I think it's reasonable to assume that because tigers rely more on sight, stealth and the element of surprise to bring down their prey, a field naturalist like Jim Corbett in the times before established scientific consensus, would have correctly concluded that in practicality tigers have little or no sense of smell.

Thank you Mr. Russell! Hope all's well with you.

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Thank you Joe! Wishing you the same

Hey Barry, thats good to know and thanks for commenting! This is a revelation to me. I had no clue there were sambar deer in the Aussie outback, introduced there from India more than a hundred years ago. Very similar to this, the Nilgai, or the blue bull, another Indian antelope is rampant in South Texas where it was also accidentally introduced as a feral species.

Only a badass like Corbett will play cat and mouse with a tiger

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Thanks Anish! Happy New Year to you as well!

I'm positive that the .275 he uses here is not the same as the famous .275 Rigby that he later on used on almost all his hunts. This .275 westley richards was the underlever type (lever action) vs the rigby 275 which was the bolt action (more accurate and faster loading). The rigby was given to him as a gift on the killing of the champawat tiger. Why he didnt use it here is anybody's guess. Perhaps Corbett was hesitant to use it at this time as it was an important piece of memorabilia for him.

Thats a very good point! I can speculate why that happened. First, Jim at this time in his life was a young employee in the railway transport establishment. His income was meagre and he had a family (4 elder sisters and mother if I remember correctly) to support as his elder brother and father had died when he was very young. Fame and wealth followed him later in life. It stands to reason that buying a new rifle was expensive enough that he couldnt afford to waste ammo on practicing. Second, his earliest 3 maneater kills (this story unfolds during the hunt for the Panar maneater) were accomplished when he was on leave from work to visit his family. His rifle was bought while he was in Calcutta which is very close to where he worked. He used to work very long days and only had time for leisurely pursuits when visiting his family in the hills. Note that shikar and hunting for sport could only be indulged in by the british colonial officers or those from the British nobility/aristocracy backgrounds and Jim was neither.

@@selvalore thank you for the reply and information. Love your work on this channel on my 5th audio book tonight!

Very kind, thank you Rupesh ji!

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Much appreciated Ms. Banner!

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Maybe set up a Patreon account or a PayPal donate link (RU-vid is greedy and takes too much of what people donate here). @@selvalore