This hunting in Sudan was organized by HUNTGEO company (Eric Muller). The local outfitter was the family of natives who didn't have the experience how to organize trophy hunts. Some people could say that there were other alternatives and I could choose the other variants? As I know the other touristic companies, registered in Sudan, has nothing to do with hunting. When Sergey Yastrzhembsky and I arrived back from Sudan, I could assure you that there is just one company which organizes hunting trips.
The last legal hunting, organized for a foreign hunter, took place about 10 years ago. It was Oleg Popov, who hunted in Sudan in 2011. The trip was organized by Angel Dacey. Over the years that have passed since that time, the poachers (mostly gold diggers) undermined the population of hunting animals. That's why I think that it's not professional from the Profi Hunt company side to use the ten years old data about the number of populations of hunting animals. It doesn't reflect the current situation. The information about 100% success misleads the readers.
I visited all hunting places there and can declare that 100% success is out of the question.
The prohibition to import their own guns by the foreign hunter don’t increase the hunting success too. I guess you realize how much does it mean for each hunter. The rented rifle, we used, wasn’t bad but not shot enough. We took our own sights and fixed them as we could. I tested the gun as long as I could and succeeded to put all shots on one list of paper A4 format. The shooting distance was 200m.
We resolved to start our hunting from a Nubian ibex. The locals don’t know how to hunt from the approach. They are used to hunt in corrals and shoot whatever they see. The native beaters are so emotional that animals run like hell. So we couldn’t approach the ibex because our guides haven’t understood what we wanted from them. But I’m sure that there are ibexes in the mountains and the chance to get them there is high enough if they change the tactic and allowed the hunters to use their own weapon.
After hunting for ibexes, we moved to the habitat of Barbary sheep. The outfitter told us that it’d be much difficult to take a sheep trophy because its population was small. We drove around all nearest mountains where Konstantin Popov and Rene Schneider had got their trophies and detected the old sheep trail. All other attempts to find the new trails or to see an Aoudad sheep were not successful. But we discovered the group of poachers who were digging just behind the next gorge. That meeting confirmed our thoughts about sheep absence those mountains.
Not many hunting days left and we moved to another hunting ground to hunt for gazelle. The guides set the camp. I could write the article about that camp and our accommodation there. In the last day we saw three males but all of them we far from us and I didn’t risk to shoot using the rented gun because wasn’t sure in it. Despite this, I managed to get a small trophy.
The representative of the foreign company which organized that hunting trip was honest and told us that didn’t know the real hunting situation. That trip was like a test. We were ready and didn’t have any illusions.
I decided to repeat this hunt once again when could take my own rifle there.
The local businessman told us that the permission to visit the country for hunting purpose with personal weapons would be get the next months.
You can read about this trip in more details in Sergey Yastrzhembsky article which will be published soon.
I would like to thank Eric Muller and Sergey Yastrzhembsky for the opportunity to participate in this hunt.
Thank you very much to Evgeny Kharitonov ( Stalker group) for his help and support duting this trip.
