Blackbuck became both a favorite pet and an object of sport whit Moghal emperors and other princely state of Bhavnagar owns this area prior to independent. The royal households and guest of the erstwhile state of Bhavnagar occasionally hunted blackbuck and coursed them with cheetah.

A trained cheetah was brought to the site in bullock cart where herds of blackbuck is found eyes of cheetah usually kept closed whit black fabricated strap after approaching herd the strap from cheetah eyes opened and left behing the group trained cheetah caught an adult fully black male all the time killed blackbuck then collected by maharaja the meat of blackbuck then offered to guest as well as cheetah as reward in this hunting method only admit mature black males were selected so popular could not suffered drastic decline and over all health of the population