Reports

Hunting took place in difficult weather conditions. It was snowing. The group of five turs were detected on the height 3000 masl. I got one of them. It was 8 years old male. The shooting distance was 430m.

I hunted for the Siberian Ibex, the hunt was organized on the south of Krasnoyarsk region. I was impressed by the autumn beauty of the Sayan mountains and Yenisei. It wasn’t the easy trip, we worked hard. Fortunately, I was lucky to get the nice trophy on the second hunting day.

Two Northern Reindeer (female and male) came to us when we were looking for a snow sheep. I didn’t have time to think and caught the male into the cross hairs. We had the license. The shooting distance was 200m. The deer noticed us and stopped. It was enough to make a shot. I really liked the trophy. Later we met reindeer grazing next to snow sheep. Apparently these were their joint habitats.

The hunting luck smiled us on the third hunting day despite all the problems which followed us that trip. Vladimir Smelov found and could me to approached the group of three males. I chose the best one and shot from the distance 180 m. The sheep fell like a log. We came to the trophy and found that its horns could take one of the record positions in the Record Book.

Hunting for Kamchatka Snow sheep is always unpredictable. We decided to approach Kamchatka Brown bear while our guides were looking for the snow sheep. The bear we were going to come close was huge. There was just one km left to the bear when the guides interrupted our hunting and advised to change the route and to start sheep hunting. Walking in the mountains was not an easy matter  but we went about 5 km and joined our guides who were watching the group of seven rams. Sheep were not far from us. So, we had short rest and began to approach. We managed to come to 312 m to the group. I shot and got the trophy. It was the worthy one! Thank you very much to people who organized that hunting.

It was the second time when I arrived to Dagestan to get the trophy. The weather was awful during all time while I was there. It was raining and there was fog in the mountains. The visibility wasn’t enough to look for the trophy or to shoot, that was the reason why we spent time in our host house waiting for good weather. It changed just for one day and it was enough to get the aim. We had to walk about 15 km through the mountains on foot, climb loose slopes, pass under steep counter slopes, climb waterfalls, cross rocks, cross an incredible number of times a mountain river and return through all of the above in pitch dark with a flash lights and a trophy in my backpack. The outfitter told us that none of the hunts were organized in that gorge for 15 years because of the complexity. I got the trophy of the Dagestan tur. 1) the height was 3000 masl 2) the shooting distance 300m 3) I laid when shot and didn’t use the bipods 4) there was no wind 5) the angle was insignificant 6) cartridge RWS Evolution 300wm. I liked how the guides worked and liked the hunting area. We saw many herds about 100 individuals. The guides said it was normal for that area but I was impressed. Thank you very much to Zaur and Ramazan for their professionalism and personal thanks to the owner of that area Elson and for his hospitality.

I hunted in Macedonia, got a local Cree cree as a credit, as well as a gorgeous sheep and aoudad. The grounds are very beautiful, the huntsmen are well done, there are a lot of animals, the weather is rainy. Organized by Gene Velichko, assisted by Ilya Dmitriev.

The hunt took place in Karachaevo- Cherkessia in Uchkulan district. The weather changed all three days. We saw the sun, rain and snow. The tur were detected on the height 3100 masl. I got Mid Caucasian tur. It was 9 years old male. The shooting distance was 408 m. The carbin Blazer R93 cal. 7mm. Hunting turned out to be quite difficult, taking into account the vagaries of the weather,. Special thanks to Murat and Rashid Borlakov.

The hunt took place in the Verkhoyansk ridges, the weather was overcast. In early morning we left the camp because the local shepherds told us where they saw animals. It was about 1pm when we reached the place, the bighorns laid on the mountain’s slope in 700 from us. We began to go around and climb the top of the mountain. The sheep didn’t see us and continued to graze camly. I shot from 450m, the rifle, which I used, was CZ 750 s1 m1 cal. 308 win. I did the accurate shot and got the trophy. I was very glad that I got such a worthy trophy, there was no limit to joy. According to preliminary measurements, the scores were very good. Thanks to the Kyymaan hunting club for organizing and accompanying the hunt.

In the beginning of October I hunted in Croatia with Ilya Dmitriev. The hunt was organized on the Dugi Otok island. Our goal was to get the trophies of Dalmatin sheep and hybrid Kri-Kri. It wasn’t a hard hunting that took us four hours. The shooting distance for the goat was 376m and 400m for the sheep. I used the rented gun Tikka 300WM. We were lucky with weather. It was +20 with a light wind. Thank you to Gennady Velichko and AYH Safari company for the organization of this nice trip.

I hunted on the Verkhoyansky ridge, in the Kobyai district, in the Ildirkei locality. The hunt took place on the height 1600 masl.  The shooting distance was 355m. The used rifle CZ 750 s1 m1 cal 308 win. Thank you Victor Sleptsov and the hunting club “Kyryman” for the organization of this hunt.

The hunt took place in the KChR in the Zelenchug region. I hunted for two days. The first day it was raining, there was a heavy fog, nothing was found. The second day the sun cleared up, they rode horses a lot along the ridges, saw several small herds with females and young animals. In the afternoon, trophy males were found at a distance of 980 meters on the border of the rock and the forest zone. It was possible to imperceptibly approach a distance of 325 meters and make an accurate shot. Fired a 300 caliber Tikka T3 carbine, Nightfoce optics.