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I was hunting for a Dagestan tur in North Ossetia (Alania) at the end of November. The hunt was not easy, but interesting. I managed the task after all. The weather was comfortable. The shot was done from a distance of 265m. Weapon Blaser R8300 WM.

I want to thank Konstantin Kalin, who helped to organize the hunt for such a rare trophy as a wolverine. The hunt took place in the Penzhinsky district of  Kamchatka . I managed to spot a wolverine through binoculars, which was slowly moving along the hill. I got the beast with the first shot from a distance of about 500 meters,.

In early December 2022, I made a second attempt to hunt for a large male Bukhara urial in Tajikistan. The hunt took place in the Khatlon region, Dangara district in the hunting farm "Hutalon", which was located on the shore of the Nurek reservoir. I spent two days in that hunting farm last year . We actively moved along the mountain ranges, saw a lot of females and young males, but it never came to a shot. This time everything turned out well and quickly. On the first day after arriving at the camp, about 12am we went to the mountains in search of sheep. At 2 pm, two groups were noticed, in which there were animals of different sexes and different ages. I chose the largest male and got it from a distance of 680 meters. I want to thank Muhammad Mirzoaliev for the kind invitation to this hunt.

I got it on the first day of hunting, 400 meters , angle +31.

On December 5, my constant companion and organizer of my Hunts Ilya Dmitriev and I were hunting Corsican Mouflon in France in the town of Font-Romeu. We arrived there from Moscow via Istanbul the day before the hunt.  The hunt was organized by Philip Simon as well as the first time. The reconnaissance had been conducted preliminary, the locations of the animals were determined, so the whole hunting process took one hour. I was provided with a carabine Blaser R8 cal 300WM from which I shot at a distance of 460 m with an angle of 30 degrees.  I fired three shots but the animal was moving thought here were two hits. The weather was great, the temperature was a little below zero, the organization was brilliant.   I recommend it to everyone. The density of animals is quite good, I saw three groups of males and took the nearest seven-year-old ram.  I would like to thank Ilya Dmitriev separately for the organization.  On December 7th, Ilya and I continued hunting in Europe again.  That day was dedicated to hunting the Lower Tatra chamois in Slovakia.   We hunted in the Gader Valley, Ivan Bezak organized the hunt. Everything went well, at 7 am the huntsman Martin and I left the camp and went along a previously explored route. The ascend took more then 3 hours.  We found a place from where we began to inspect the surroundings with binoculars, that was prevented by dense fog. After about 30-40 minutes, we saw three chamois at a short distance. I fired a shot from a distance of 228 m. The animal stayed in place. It was a good old male. I recommend that place and the organizer to everyone.  Accommodation was well.

I managed to hunt deer in Ossetia thanks to the invitation of Sazonov Ts . It was a hard hunting with vertical ascents and descents according to the classics of mountain hunting in the Caucasus.

It was interesting hunting in Dagestan. I got an 11-year tur in difficult weather conditions with almost zero visibility. It was in the afternoon. On the last day of the hunt, we decided to make an approach to the turs despite zero visibility. We climbed and found the beast, which was in front of us at a distance of 500-600 meters. But there was such a thick fog and snow, that it made it impossible to measure the distance. We made a decision to come closer under the cover of the fog. The beast was just under us, but it could only be heard but not seen. After that a long wait began, we waited minute by minute hour by hour and there's a minute chance to choose a trophy and I shot from the distance 250m. The beast was hit, broke down to the bottom and we saw nothing again.

It was a matter of chance. My friend and teammate Evgeny Shirokov, gave me a pre-booked hunt in Slovakia, for the long-awaited Tatra chamois, for which I thank him very much. The trip was organized by Artem Veselov, ProfiHunt. We flew from Madrid to Vienna after a successful hunt for the Cantabrian chamois. The host party met us at the airport and then we moved towards the hunting grounds. The journey took a little more than three hours. We arrived already at dusk and therefore the hunting trip was scheduled for early morning. Morning, breakfast, everything according to plan. We left for the mountains at 6 am. We drove half an hour by car and a fairly easy hike. Several chamois were scared off closer to the top, there were trophy ones, it could not but please. Two trophy animals were found through the gorge. The distance was 230 meters, but it was not convenient to shoot. I decided to shoot. I concentrated, grouped on the slope and...... everything was successful, the first bullet hit, the chamois rolled down. Everything went great, thanks to the organizers!!!!

I got the Mid Caucasian chamois in the Karmadon gorge, in North Ossetia. The weather was comfortable. it was warm during the day and a slight minus at night. I shot from a distance of 265m. Blaser R8300 WM weapon Swarovski optics.

I hunted in North Ossetia, in the Karmadon gorge. I was lucky to get the Caucasian chamois. Shot from a distance of 240 m. Weapon Blaser R8 300 WM. The weather is great. The views were amazing.

The first shot at a distance of 672 meters was successful and the trophy ram lay down on the spot. The angle was +15 degrees.Blaser R8 300 WM carbine, Berger 210 vld hunting bullet. We rode horses for 12-14 hours a day. The camp was at the level of 3300 mm. I drank diacarb and hypoxene and felt great.

We paid a visit to the most beautiful region - North Ossetia. Sergey Gasparyan kindly accompanied me on this trip. The object of the hunt was a male mountain goat Chamois. By the way, it is the smallest goat of all mountain trophies, which makes hunting for it even more interesting. Easy hunting did not work out. On the first day, I shot synchronously with Sergey, I missed by 435 meters, the bullet passed higher. My friend did not fail and got a good male. The lucky man went after the goat with one of the huntsmen. I didn't lose hope and went to the ascent with the second guide. We had noticed another group high under the bridge. Either my very loud breathing, or a flock of partridges, noisily fluttering up from the slope, scared the chamois. They jumped suddenly out onto a nearby fold of the mountain. Murat measured the distance - 154 Meters while I was taking off and unfastening the carbine! I bent on the slope so that I did not even imagine that I was capable of such a thing. It seemed that I settled comfortably, and took the animal in sight. I shot and missed once again. We went on climbing and tried to follow the herd, crossing their path. They got under the very top of the head, but all in vain, the chamois hid tightly. We decided to go to the car, and then to the home to think about tomorrow. A new day showed us that a chamois preferred to stay at the very peak of our mountain. - That's where we'll go. Murat said with a wink. You can't get it by shooting, work with your feet! We had overcome the entire yesterday's route, and headed for the top, on the way we saw another group of chamois a kilometer away. - It will be a plan "B". The guide encouraged us, because Sergey, who finished on the first day, decided to go with me. Higher and higher, further and further. The slope became almost a straight wall, and even overgrown with high, dense grass. The legs were tangled, the sole sometimes didn't pierce the edging to a solid one.I crawled on a "four-wheel drive" and morally strong-willed to the ridge, and there as on asphalt. The slope was still steep, but the grass was burned by the bright, Caucasian sun. - Fall, fall! The Huntsman waved his hand. I handed it to Sergey; he was the last one. - On that rock over there, you found it yourself this morning. 350 meters. That information was enough to calculate everything and understand where Murat saw the animal. I crawled up on all fours, put a carbine, and put the corrections...- Let me look at the optics? Trophy qualities cannot be seen with binoculars from such a distance. - It seems nothing... not a world record, of course, but I would take it. - Well, let me see for myself. Murat rolled away from the rifle; I invested in the sight. - Listen, it's really nothing, it's not a tur. Horns are just above the ears, already 7-8 years old. I was thinking out loud. - Damn, it turned around on us, it's standing right there, looking at us. - Ready - shoot, step aside, that's it, it won't be visible. - Ready! - I'm watching. - Shot... Eeeee! Chamois falls as if knocked down. Sergey screamed with joy louder than after his goat. A second pause and we saw how the animal fell like a sack from the cliff for more than a hundred meters! - Fuck....you!!!! As if the artists of the famous choir with daily rehearsals, we exhaled in unison. - Oh, if only it didn't break. - Let's go look for it. That day was not as treacherous as yesterday and my trophy was not badly damaged from the last flight. On that joyful note, we wandered to the car. Everything turned out as it turned out, the taxidermist has already started working. I will look at this mountain trophy and remember what great difficulties I've experienced when has got that smallest goat! I used Blaser r93 carbine, 300 Win mag caliber Distance 350 meters angle 14 degrees.

I hunted in North Ossetia, very close to the so-called "gates" of the Karmadon gorge. I shot at my trophy on the very first day, at a distance of 434 meters, and got a male Caucasian chamois. The trophy was certainly not outstanding, but what Avshati sent. He is the patron saint of hunters of Ossetia. I will improve the result next time.The next day I acted as a cameraman, and went to the mountains with my friend, shooting a video of his hunting. Only at the very top was a trophy male spotted.Shot at 350 m. Then there was an incredible fall of chamois down the cliff ...

We hoped for an easy closure of the mountain hunting season 2022. In fact, it turned out - 20 km through the mountains, at 4 a.m. we climbed 800 meters vertically to 2800, ran after chamois, descended another 2000 meters vertically. I shot at 163 meters, with my hands, on the outgoing chamois, - 38 degrees.

In early November, I came to Kyrgyzstan to hunt with a friend. Initially, there were no plans to get a sheep, but the outfitter made an offer that I could not refuse).  As a result, the ram was got. The caliber of 300 was the norm, the distance was 430 meters. It was not particularly difficult, I took medications for normal well-being in the highlands. Everything was fine. The weather was a stable minus. We didn't walk a lot but used horses.

I took advantage of ProfiHunt's offer to jump into the last car of the trip to extract Cantabrian chamois. There were two days left to hunt until Madrid, taking into account the observance of all formalities and heavy logistics, in modern realities. The last day of hunting was 15.11. And there was the day of departure. In Sheremetyevo I met our esteemed teammate Yuri Viktorovich Vasilyev while whiling away the time before departure. He was flying to Africa. The waiting time flew by quickly. It turned out, we were flying on the same flight to the UAE. In the Emirates, the conversations continued))) We wished each other good luck on the hunt, and went on our flights. The representative of the company waited me in Madrid, then there was the registration of a permit for a rented weapon, and departure to the hunting lands. The road to the place took four hours. After arrival, I offered to go hunting right away, and not to waste time. We were driving by car, and observing the slopes. We saw a group of chamois and started climbing, that took about two hours. Unfortunately, there was no trophy in that group. At the beginning of twilight, we began to return. The next day was more successful. A ascend took about an hour, and a male was found. I shot from a distance of 220 meters at a decent angle up. Many thanks to the Profit Hunter team for the cool organization of this adventure, which did not end with the extraction of this trophy!!!!

It was one of my first mountain hunts. It was very cold and windy. I hunted on the border with Tyva. Weapon Moose -4, caliber 7.62/51, a distance of about 250 meters. There was no rangefinder yet ) I got it on the 3rd day of hunting. There was no limit to joy.

I hunted for a Hume argali in Kyrgyzstan. I wanted a good trophy that's why we were chasing a group of 5 sheep for 4 days. The herd  was led by a worthy leader. They broke down at the slightest danger from a distance of more than one and a half kilometers. At last, I took a position in a convenient place only on the 5th day of the hunt, where the herd usually went after morning feeding for a lunch nap ("day"), after a long and tedious wait, it was possible to get the right trophy. Shot - caliber 300 Norma at 410 meters. The weather was clear, the altitude is 4280 m, the frost is 15C.

Hunting took place in North Ossetia in a private hunting farm "Afsati Fund". The place was the Karmadon Gorge. It was even dark, when in the early morning we went to the foot of the rocks and began to view the mountains with a thermal imager. It was not possible to find anything worthwhile, and we began to climb in order to climb to the intended location of the animals by dawn. And so it happened, we found a group of Chamois with four animals when dawn broke. They all had perspective horns. The distance was about 700 meters. We decided to come closer, and overcame the gorge. The chamois had moved somewhere by that time, then we decided to go further, to the neighboring gorge. When we came to it, they were not there, although an hour ago we saw how the goats were playing and running down the slope. We decided to make a halt and wait, if they would appear. But nobody came. Our guide Murat went to inspect the gorge down below us and found Chamois in the woods below us. The distance from us was ~ 263 meters, he measured the distance with a rangefinder, the device determined the correction taking into account the angle of inclination down to 34 degrees The distance was not great, but it was inconvenient to shoot, almost with the hands. We were at 2200 meters. The mountains there, were not high but very steep! I decided to take a chance and fired! The chamois jumped up and disappeared behind the slope in the bushes! We started to go down the slope and search for the trophy . We found a Chamois in the bushes, which stopped its fall. Hurray! I got the trophy! It became a seven-year-old goat with horns of 20.5 cm, not a record, but quite a trophy specimen of the "Mid Caucasian Chamois"! I am infinitely glad that the goal has been achieved and we are with the trophy! Carbine 300wm, NormaTip strike 11.7 gr Pim. Hunting was of medium difficulty; the farm was excellent.