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Due to the full limitation or absence of the possibility for the legal hunting on this species of the goat in the natural area of habitat in northern Africa, the head of CMH included the subspecies, introduced to the South African Republic in to the rating list. The hun was organized in the lands of the company of my old friend Rayan Ebbot, at his family ranch, placed in the vicinity of the Kuruman town, Northern Cape Province. Very interesting and diverse lands with mountain and savanna landscapes. Me and my friends had also the possibility to take different trophies of the African antelopes. I’d like to note, that all the hunting lands in South African Republic are enclosed, but with very large territory. I have been hunting on the land with the area of about 10000 hectares. The hunt on the Barbary Sheep, which I already head, took me the whole day.     We managed to find a group of males at the first day of hunt, but the hunt on the Ibex took our time. We have spent four days on the search. We walked across all the mountain ridges and were searching for the goat in the morning and in the evening. Once the helpers saw a single male and drove him to the valley from the mountain, but the hunter couldn’t see him personally. Only on the fourth day, when we realized that search of the Ibex in the mountains is unpromising, we found it. Almost occasionally, at the savannah part of the hunting lands. Hence, the introduced Ibex was very hard and uneasy for the hunting and preservation of the African animals.    I am not going to go deep in to the questions of the aviary hunting in this report, but I want to note that many leadership hunting clubs support legal hunting. If, on some reason, the hunt on the particular animal is impossible within its natural area of habitat, clubs count introduced subspecies, as well as GSCO and SCI do the exception and allows such trophies, taken within enclosed areas, due to observed reasons.

I hunted for Pyrenean Chamois in the National Park Posets-Maladeta on the boundary between Spain and France.The weather at the first day was awful. It was rain with squally wind, reaching gusts up to 30-40 m / s. I saw enough chamois but all of them were far, more then 400m and I couldn’t make accurate shot. If I had my own gun the hunt would finished quickly but I used the rented one. After 5 hours walk in the wooded cliffs we noticed old male and decided to come closer to shoot. We came at the distance 150-200m ( the rangefinder couldn’t define the distance in such weather) and I shot. The goat ran in 10 meters away and stopped. I shot once again and missed. Moreover I’d hit my forehead by the sight. After it we decided to try once again in the next day. We were at the mountains early morning. The weather was clear but windy. We met the trophy male when it was 650 from us and spend three hours trying to come closer. At last we approached it to 245m. I remember my last experience with the gun and shot when saw the black circle. It doesn’t influence on the accuracy. I hit to the right place. Thank you very much to Stalker Group and personally to Evegeny Haritonov for this hunt.

After a brief search, we noticed a large male chamois grazing under the top of the mountain. The distance was 320m, angle 30 degrees. I decided to shoot though the position wasn’t good. I used rented Tikko T3, 300 wm, less then 3.5 kg and 185 gr Hornady cartridges.  It was tested on the distance 200m. I accounted the distance 250m using my angle data.I got it but my uncomfortable position became the reason why the sight cut the face and I had to ask doctors for a help.  The trophy was old goat which is got to the TOP 20 SCI list by the preliminary estimate. Thank you very much to Stalker Group and personally to Evegeny Haritonov for this hunt which I’ll never forget.

After two hours of the slow walk I got 10 years old male. The distance was less than 100m. I has known that the hunt on Majorca has the feature. You can’t shoot the animal which stand against the sky. The hunter has to see what is behind it.Thank you very much to Stalker Group and personally to Evegeny Haritonov for the organization of this hunt

The hunt took one day. We did two approaches after a lunch. I got it from the distance 140 m and shot from the bottom up.

Давнишняя мечта осуществилась - добыл в Узбекистане барана Северцова. Это произошло так быстро, что не успел ощутить все «прелести» горной охоты. Трофей достался в первый же день в полдень благодаря выстрелу на 270 метров. Это старый 12 летний самец  , который лишился почти всех своих зубов. Удивила и порадовала плотность зверя. За световой день, проникнув вглубь ущелья хребта Нуратау всего на 5 км, мы увидели 23 барана. Из них практически треть были трофейными ! Охота была прекрасно организована хорошо известным многим в России Олимом Назаровым.

It was one of the most difficult hunts in my career, by all the criteria. Long logistics, many days of walk, great heights, significant physical work. The driving itself took two days; many hours and two days of walk to the base camp on the heigh about 3800 meters a.s.l. The population of the sheep is good. That explained, why me and Magidov Sergey had successful hunt at the first day and we did it almost simultaneously on the opposite ridges. The organization quite well thought-out. On the way back we used the option to fly a helicopter of the Pakistan Air Force. It is possible to use it for getting to the base camp as well, but the weather was bad in our case and we couldn’t get directly to Gilgit (about 45 minutes of drive) and was the reason of the many-day, but interesting trip. I want to note, that in general this journey was unlucky. Some more trophies were in plans in Kvette, but due to dishonourableness of the subcontractor of the Profi-Hunt, Turkish company Shikar Safaris, to the last moment we didn’t know if we are allowed to receive the permit for the hunt on Urial and Suleyman Makhor. Mr. Kann gave out desirable for valid and told us that the documents were received. The one should always work out all the moments when he works with this company. I tried to hunt on the Kashmir Markhor, but two days of search gave no results and we couldn’t see anything good. Warm and early spring in the mountains – it was about 25 degrees at the light period of the day, could be the reason, why old males migrated somewhere. I had to get on the highest point, about 3000 meters a.s.l., but neither we, nor observers, who were on the neighboring ridge, have seen nothing proper. Two young males and a lot of females gave us the point, that the animals are present here, but, probably, we were unlucky.