The ridge where our hunt took place connects two peaks. We watched the aurochs with binoculars from one side and from the other. We left at 3:00 in the morning and arrived at the site at 6:00. We expected to see the animals coming up from their feeding grounds. Surprisingly, there were very few turs in the area we had scouted the night before. The distance to them was about 700m and there was no way to get closer. Some time later, on the neighbouring peak, on the other side of the ridge, we noticed a stir, a loud whistle revealing a group of turs. The whistle meant we had been spotted. The male came out from behind a rock and stared at us, trying to see the potential danger. We froze. For them we were in plain sight. We could send Marat around the mountain and try to push them from that side. It wasn't certain that they would run in our direction, but there was still a chance. Or we had to go down and walk around the mountain together. I liked this idea better and we went down... The walk took another 1.5 hours. We went down, around the mountain on loose rock, then on boulders and a glacier. As we climbed we immediately saw 4 turs and after measuring the distance I decided to shoot. I took off my rucksack, unfolded the rifle, set up the bipods and took another look through the binoculars to see all the animals on the cliff. Two twin brothers stood on a stone, one lying a little lower in the shade. Just beyond the huge gateposts, the male appeared, walking around the herd as if looking out and counting them, like a leader. As he walked along the edge of the mountain, he paused for a moment and turned his head to the side, revealing his spread majestic horns. Looking through the binoculars, I desperately searched the rocks for more males, but I had a feeling that this 'leader' would not stay still for long. Tur walked again, and I kept him in sight until he stopped. The shot deafened me and the guide. The ringing in my ears lingered for a while. And I wondered if the animal had fallen or not. It seemed to me that the trophy had stepped behind the rock, although the crack said it had been hit. "Yes, it fell on the spot," said Marat, "it seems to me that it is there." And it was his "I think" and his hastily assembled ammunition that made me nervous until the last moment, when Marat, who had climbed first, found the lying tur and, lifting its head by the horns, showed me my trophy. I shouted with joy to all the mountains.