Hunting for the Yakutia snow sheep in 2020
In June 2020, Afanasy Sleptsov, from the Even Life company, suggested his help in registration of my snow sheep trophy in the Record Book of SCI. According our preliminary estimates it could claim the title of Champion by SCI system. And I asked Afanasy to organize hunting trip for the snow sheep on his hunting ground. We agreed to organize it in September. In August he hunted with a guy from Yakutsk who got nice trophy. I chose Afanasy because of the trophy’ quality he could provide. It’s always risky to hunt with new people. In September two more hunters from St. Pete and I arrived to Yakutsk. Afanasy met us at the airport and invited to his house. The shaman, he invited beforehand, made a hunter rite of passage. We thought It’d help us. The weather was fine and we flew into the hunting area at the same day. It took us the whole day to drive by car to the base though we flew the part of the way. I’d remember for a long how we drove those 69 km by stones. On the third day we arrived to the mobile camp. It had been set already and the local guides told us that detected the group of good sizes males. Next early morning we went to the mountains for hunting. We climbed the top and didn’t spot the group of males, they talked about. But decided to look for them on the next tops and ridges. In one km from us we noticed three groups of females with babies. There were not any signs of males. We resolved to check other places but with the same result. In the evening we came back to the camp and suggest our guides to divide into two groups and to examine the surroundings without us. The news, they told us next evening, gave us with hope. On the fifth hunting day we left the camp, rose the mountain where the guides watched the sheep and didn’t find any. Several groups of females were grazing there. We asked the evens what was going on and they confessed that didn’t see any trophy size males at that area and inform Afanasy about it before our arrival Afanasy preferred not to tell us the truth but lied that the guides found the males and everything was under the control. The best variant was to transfer our arrival to the other dates. We made the decision to finish the hunt and to fly back to Yakutsk. Afanasy demanded on payment for the second part of the trip. I suggested to compensate our travel expenses and to transfer the hunt for the next year. But he didn’t agree. My hunters did what he asked. Dear colleagues! I don't recommend to book hunting trips with Afanasy Sleptsov - the owner of the "Even Life" company, not to be disappointed and not to lose time as we did.
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