Reports

Despite strong gusts of wind, the hunt was successful. Many thanks to the organizers of the hunt.

It was a great trip. The adventure began at the airport; it took three hours for the four ultra-professional custom officers to check out the weapons. A comfortable flight to Dushanbe, a meeting with the host, breakfast, and departure to  the grounds. It took us eight hours to travel by car. We spent the night in the kishlak, and in the morning we moved out to hunt, having planned to spend the night in a small house in the mountains. We saw many ibexes during the first day, but the distances were long. After spending the night in the morning we started moving slowly. I would like to notice that all days of hunting were trekking on foot. We had walked a lot!!! By noon of the second day we found a group of ibex with the possibility of approach. I shot at a distance of 550 meters, the ibex was taken with the first shot. I shot with my Blaser R8 carbine in 338LM caliber.

I got the trophy on November 19, 2022. Age 8 years. The distance is 738 meters.

The distance is 587m.

We traveled by car around the entire mountain range at the hunting site and didn't see a worthy trophy. Then we decided to advance to go and to search the animals inside the mountain range on foot. This tactic brought success. We saw a herd of animals on the opposite slope, there was a big old male. Then we ran down, gathered all our strength and made a quick dash up. At one moment, we lost sight of the animals then had overcome the next ascent and found them. The male turned out to be almost at point-blank range in front of us. I shot and got the first gold Rondo trophy in Spain in the last year!!!

We walked about 20 km during that day. For the first time, a small group of males among whom there was a worthy trophy was accidentally scared off. But then the experienced rangers identified the place where they disappeared. We went in from the other side and really found the male we were looking for. I shot at the running up goal at a distance of 250 meters. The age of the Bukhara Urial is 9 years old.

It was my second time when I went hunting in the Pamirs. For the first time, Argali Brooke could not be found. January is one of the coldest months. The temperature dropped to -50. A group of sheep was slowly removed. The ram was taken from a distance of 650 meters with one shot. The height was 4500 meters. When we were returning to the camp, we found a group of Pamir Ibex. There was one among them with outstanding trophy qualities. The distance to the group was about a kilometer. It was decided to make a shot. The distance of the shot was 1012 meters. It took 2 shots. The ibex rolled down and broke off one horn. As a result , the horns of the Pamir Ibex were 115 cm . A rare specimen in the area.

The duration of the hunt is one day. The distance is 567 meters.

Artem Veselov, a well-known organizer of trophy hunting in Russia, offered me for two years to hunt a Himalayan bear in the Khabarovsk Territory. Finally, I chose the time and flew to Khabarovsk on December 19. Upon arrival, Vadim Atroshenko was waiting for me. He was responsible for conducting the hunt. At last we received the weapon, loaded our bags into the Mi-8 flew by chopper from the Lazovsky district of the Khabarovsk Territory  within ten minutes.  After an hour-long flight, we landed on a prepared platform, where the huntsman Sergey and snowmobiles were waiting for us. We changed the transport, and went to the den that took us one more hour. The den was located in a giant trunk of a lime tree. I took up a position 10 meters from a large hollow and waited while the huntsmen woke up the bear. The frost was -25 degrees, and it was good that I had to stand for only 25-30 minutes. The awakened bear jumped out of the hollow very quickly and began to descend rapidly to me. I fired two shots and that was the end of it. I recommend that kind of hunting to everyone after I was there for the first time. A great organization and a very good trophy. There are a lot of tracks visible on the road, from tiger tracks to musk deer. I thank Artem Veselov and the company Profi Hunt for a wonderful hunt!!!!!!

This was my second visit to the hunting of the Dagestan tur. The first time was unlucky. I came purely for luck. We were lucky  in this visit, both with the weather and with the guides. Early in the morning we went to the area where the guides saw a group of males and females in the evening.  There was one male stood out for his trophy qualities. The distance was 600 meters, the angle was +15 degrees. Three shots (one miss) and the Dagestan tur rolled down.

It was a hard hunt as always. Only on the 4th day we were able to find a group of the Kuban Tur. I fired at the departing group. The distance was 700 m, the angle was + 5 degrees, the wind was 10 m / s. The first shot fatally wounded the beast, after the second hit, the tur flew down after flying 200 meters of free fall. The old male was 11 years old.

On 8 November 2022 we were hunting in the Republic of Karachay-Cherkessia. We went out for hunting at 3 a.m., we noticed a decent group of turs only at 15:00 at a distance of 612 m. We decided to shoot although there was a very strong gusty wind, an angle of 38 degrees. After measuring all the indicators and calculating corrections, I fired a shot, it was an accurate hit, but unfortunately the tur fell deep into the gorge. That day it was impossible to reach the tur as it was getting dark and it was very dangerous to go down to the trophy without insurance. I also had to fly home the next day. So I didn't see my trophy in the mountains. A day later, Kamal and Novruz, our huntsmen, friends and just wonderful people (special thanks to them for their professionalism, hospitality and humanity), went down to the gorge and got my long-awaited trophy.

It wasn't easy. There was almost no snow. The camp was located at an altitude of 2400m. There were young turs and females below. We had to climb to the tops of the mountains. Snow and wind alternated throughout the expedition. The group of Turs was found at an altitude of 3700 m . One of them stood out for its trophy qualities. The distance was 600 m. It was impossible to get any closer. The first shot came right under it. The turs ran. The bullet hit the animal with a high second shot and after the third round it rolled down. It was a 13-year mid-Caucasian tur.