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The bear was taken from the hunting tower.

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

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.

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 got two wolverines on Yamal, in February 2022.

At the end of February 2014 I was invited by Viktor Kim to the Vologda region, to hunt wolves. We were joined by our colleague Igor Viktorovich Kozlov. Igor R., also a hunter we knew, was waiting for us. The organizer of the hunt was Valery Churin, a very famous wolf hunter. A year before Victor Nikolayevich had already been to Valery Churin and got two wolves.  When we arrived in Totemsky district, near the village of Lobanikha, Valery Alekseevich said that all of us would shoot. "Self-assured," I thought. By this time I had stood many times without results at the number, where there were a few dozen hunters in corrals for several kilometers who wanted to get a wolf. This time our corrals was approximately two kilometers. So, for the first time Valery Alekseyevich and the huntsman together went slowly from the opposite side of the corrals. The first shot, in my opinion, was fired by Igor R., but missed. When Valery Alexeyevich saw that Igor came with a rifled weapon, I told him it would be better if he took a smooth weapon.  Then, Victor Nikolaevich took a wolf. Finally, it was my turn - I was standing right by the flags. I look, to the left of me, directly along the flags two wolves move to me. I thought to myself: "like they taught me, I'll miss the first one and shoot the second one. I managed to switch on the GoPro ;). When the first two almost came close to me, another she-wolf came straight at me. I had to shoot the first wolf, and then the she-wolf. The wolf fell on the ground, and the she-wolf turned and ran away. Then she crawled bloodied along the traces under the flags and ran away along the Sukhon river. So the first corral ended successfully, if so it can be called. In the second corral we were moved up a little. I was put practically on the same place where I was at the first corral, but only, having moved inside the enclosure on 50 meters. There was a small glade in front of me. They put me at the end of the glade closer to the woods. I thought, "what kind of fool would go into that glade". I moved away from the woods myself and looked at it.  The second corral began again opposite hunters. After a while with the lateral vision I noticed some movement from behind and from the side. I looked back and saw, the wolf goes directly on a glade to my side. And I was standing back to him. I waited while he comes on 10 meters, has turned around and has shot. The wolf fell down on the ground. "Some kind of enchanted wolves," I thought. That was the end of the second corral. Only Igor Kozlov did not shoot. Then we were transferred to the opposite side, where Valery Alekseevich began the first corral. To do this we had to walk 700 meters on the snowmobile trace, which was not easy at all, sometimes we fell through the waist. Igor and I were set up. The beater came at us from the opposite side from where we had stood in the previous corral. In the third corral the wolf ran directly on Igor and he got him. The result is stunning: 4 wolves for 4 hunters in one day. The result is stunning: Four wolves on four hunters in one day. And my wounded she-wolf.  Valeriy Alekseyevich is the lord of wolves!!! And wolves are enchanted by him. I have never had such a fantastic wolf hunt to this day. The road home was waiting for us.

My fourth mountain trophy is the Bukhara Urial! After a tiring ten-hour trip we finally arrived in the village of Khatak in Surkhandarya Region. In the morning, after a short mountain climb, I got a seven or seven-eight-year-old Urial from a distance of 370 meters. I would like to thank Behruz Abdushukurov and Evgeny Kharitonov for a excellent hunting!

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.

Hunting at the beginning of the season.

Professionally organized and conducted wolf hunt. I recommend this hunting farm to everyone who wants to get this trophy!!!

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!

Seven wolves were taken in two days.

I hunted in the second half of May 2018 in the north of the Kamchatka Peninsula on the Okhotsk Sea. From Palana we went by boat to the north along the coast for more than 150 km,-what a pleasure. The wild beauty and power of nature fascinated. We hunted from an approach, on foot, in the evening at the low tide. There were a lot of bears on the territory, so we could choose. 338 caliber Lapua Magnum. Hunted with EVENTUS.

I hunted in Kamchatka in frosty December 2018. Lucky!!! I took a beautiful trophy of Kamchatka moose by the end of the day, and then during the night we were taking out the meat and trophy at -40° C, some of the escorts almost got frostbite on their limbs, but vodka and tea saved people. The hunt was organized and conducted by the company EVENTUS.