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What is it not a mountain trophy? Moving in the mountains while hunting for  the bear was comparable to hunting chamois, and adrenaline was like on bear hunts from the approach.

A very interesting experience of mountain hunting in the Persian land, from the climate and traditions of the Iranians to the relatively low but very rocky mountains of the Iranian highlands. I thank Artem Veselov for organizing the hunt and Alexander Petrushenko for his help in negotiating with local jigits.

In September 2015, we went to Altai for maral. There were several hunters in our group. Viktor Kim, who had hunted there before. He gave me the contact of Valery Kalanchin, who arranged this tour for us. Igor Kozlov and Alexander Ginzburg also went with us. Igor hunted separately, and very quickly he got his trophy of the moral. Victor Nikolaevich took the next one. Sasha and I remained. It was already the last day of hunting. I was taken somewhere to the hiding place. The huntsman began to bait. Soon there appeared a great maral. I shot it and it fell down. Looking closely through the scope, I saw that the maral was turning its head. I shot again in the neck. He was lying still. We sat down, the huntsman smoked. After that we started to approach to the maral. As soon as we came very close to him, he jumped up, ran and disappeared into the bushes. We searched for him until dusk in the bushes, but did not find him. What a disappointment. We had the trophy in our hands and missed it. The rifle was a Blazer P93, 6.5-284 caliber. The next day we had to leave the base and go to the airport. We flew away. Already in Moscow, Valery called me and told me that they had found my trophy. The maral hid somewhere in a robin. That's how I got my Altai maral.

I was hunting for a Dagestan tur in North Ossetia (Alania) at the end of November. The hunt was not easy, but interesting. I managed the task after all. The weather was comfortable. The shot was done from a distance of 265m. Weapon Blaser R8300 WM.

Thanks to my friends I managed to get a wonderful trophy of a huge (400 + kg)  Amur brown bear with black fur. The hunt was preceded by weeks of serious preparation, so the process of hunting was easy. The only thing that was required was patience. And I do not lack it.😊

Due to the inaccessibility of the Kolyma Mountains, it was decided to reach the grounds in snow and frost at the end of the season. First we waited for snow, then for good weather to make the trip. The stars aligned and a "king of the mountain" was discovered on the ridge. For the second time I successfully hunted in this hunting farm, the area of which is more than 200 thousand hectares. The availability of good transport vehicles, well-thought-out camping equipment and provisions and, most importantly, the organizational skills of Fedor Chernyshov, allow me to hunt with confidence in the difficult conditions of the Kolyma.

It was an interesting and active hunt, we were chasing a bear on the traces of almost 15 km, and we managed to approach him before the big hill, on which it would be almost impossible to catch him because of the weather conditions (wet sticky snow), before that we tried to get him on the neighboring hill, and torn two straps on the snowmobile while trying to get up. That's why our huntsmen were ahead of the game, and everything worked out!

I had been waiting for this trip for 2 years. The number of licenses was limited. It took us 3 days to get to the base camp from Kathmandu. There were 30 people accompanying our group. Every day we walked from 10 to 18 km. During the hunt we covered about 90 kilometers. The altitude difference was from 3200 to 4650 meters. 305 meters to the group of sheep we managed to get close to. Angle of fire - 15 degrees.The animal was taken with one shot, having run 10 meters. It was an old male 12 years old. It was one of the most difficult hunts.

Bear was taken from the hunting tower on the second night of of the hunt.

Seven wolves were taken in two days.

I got two wolverines on Yamal, in February 2022.

I had the opportunity to go hunting in Morocco for Aoudad. Upon arrival, we did the formalities of importing weapons. I would like to note that there are no rifled weapons in Morocco, and it is forbidden to bring rifles of the army type. No more than 20 cartridges may be brought in. It is also necessary to provide a fired cartridge case. Then we drove to the home of the friendly host, my longtime friend Renaud Desgrees du Loui. We spent time talking warmly about hunting. The next morning we drove to the hunting region. On the way we stopped at the police and registered weapons. We got to a village where Sherpas waited for us with their irreplaceable transport in Morocco - donkeys. We had walked about two hours to the base camp, having gained an altitude of five hundred meters. The camp was a house in an abandoned village equipped with all necessary facilities for hunters. In the evening, divided into two groups, we began to inspect the slopes and rocks of the gorge. Detecting Aoudad was made very difficult due to the dense mountain vegetation. We saw a group of three sheep, but we had no time to go up and hunt as it was getting dark. In the morning, having got ready, we climbed a rock that was convenient for tracking animals with binoculars. For one hour and a half of observation we didn't see a single sheep. We made the decision to go higher. At some moment the observer who stayed down said by radio that he saw sheep. Having adjusted the route we began to come closer. It was already noon and the heat was +30. Aoudad rested in the shade. The approach was quite dangerous, the mountains were very difficult in some places. We managed to approach at 230 meters. Having determined the trophy, I shot. Everything had gone well, the Aoudad was taken!!! I used my Blaser R8 carbine, 338LM. According to preliminary measurements, the trophy entered the top-3 of Morocco and the top-10 of the SCI.

For the first time I visited the city of Khabarovsk, where our den hunting for the Amur brown bear began. Hunting on the den is always difficult to prepare and in a sense it is an adrenaline rush. A close contact with the animal, coordinated work of all the team of huntsmen and a hunter, everything is important. For me the important moment is the understanding of the fact that it is not a female in the den. There are the features and the analysis of the footprint and the visual estimation of the animal and some other secrets which each huntsman has. As a result we managed to get a 3-5 year old male. Everything was safe and organized, for which many thanks to the guys.

I have long dreamed of hunting the polar wolf, and I am glad that I succeeded in March 2023. I hunted in the Magadan Region in the area of the Kedon River, where many years ago I had already taken a moose. The search took a relatively short time, because the local organizers understood exactly where the main group of moose were. There we found wolves in the river valley. I captured four wolves, thus we saved about 200 heads of hoofed animals during the year.