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The hunt took place in a week after my first mountain. It was easier, because we didn't walk much. The license was not preserved because the trophy was not immediately taken away, left at the base for primary processing.

It was my first mountain hunt.  I arrived at Vladikavkaz airport on 06.11.2018 the representative of the local outfitter met me there and we drove to the base in V.Saniba. It took us 40 minutes to get there. The locals met me there and gave me a little rest. I can talk endlessly about the hospitality of Director Tsar Ugarkovich. Many thanks to him and the staff .  In the morning we went hunting. It was dark when we arrived to the place from where we should have to climb. There was a long walk across the mountain to the other side where a herd of turs had already been detected. The tur was hunted at the same day, but we could not get it on the same day because it was already getting dark. The male ran back about 300 meters over the ridge of the mountain after hitting. It was decided not to pursue it, but to return and go down, where the UAZ had already moved. We took it at the next day.  There was a desire to get a trophy of chamois, but I decided to rest a little and return there in a week, which was done.  On 9.11.2018, I flew back to the hospitable North Ossetia. Chamois hunting was also successful and not as difficult as hunting for the tur, A lot of thank to the guides for their professional analysis. Photos of licenses had not been preserved because the trophies were left there for primary processing.

I got the Central Asian ibex in Uzbekistan. The trohpy had 110 centimeters horns and was 9 years old. We took it in the first huning day, but it was a very difficult one. I managed to sneak up close enough - the beast was taken with one shot from only 220 meters, though from a very uncomfortable position. Thanks to Behruz Abdushukurov and his entire team! The hunt turned out to be extremely interesting and laborious.

I got the trophy of the tour, it became 10 Years male. The  Shot was done from 654 meters. Carabine Blaser R8 300WM

The hunt for the Armenian mouflon took two days. A shot from a distance of 200 meters brought me the trophy of the old mouflon.

It was my first mountain trophy Aoudad sheep! I got on this hunt by a lucky chance for me. The hunter who booked those days was injured and could not come. I called Roadie an hour after another hunter canceled the hunt. The trophy  was hunted on the first day of the hunt. The distance was 150 meters. I used a rented rifle. Caliber 300 WSM. I would like to thank Rowdy McBright, who accompanied me on that wonderful hunt. I also thank Sergey Vladimirovich Yastrzhembsky and Viktor Nikolaevich Kim, who helped in organizing this adventure!

The hunt took place between November 24 and December 3, 2022. We were hunting in the Dorpathan National Game Reserve. The hunting place was under Mount Hiunchuli 5922 meters above sea level. I got a trophy of a Blue sheep on November 28 at an altitude of 4350 meters above sea level. The weather was clear and the conditions for hunting were ideal. It was cold in the morning, the frost was -5 degrees, and in the afternoon it was about +12 degrees. I got the Himalayan tahr a day later at an altitude of 3300 meters above sea level. Hunting was physically difficult, but I had no problems. thanks to the gradual and long pass to the place of hunting sheep and my own good condition. The reserve was relatively well preserved, but it was more difficult to hunt tar because it was hunted in forests and on rocks. The base camp was located at an altitude of 2800 meters above sea level. Twenty three sherpas were waiting for me upon my arrival. Every morning I went with 4 guides while other support staff, packed up the camp and followed us to another high-altitude camp. We slept in tents but the service was exclusive and at a high level!!!! In the evening, I was completely surprised by the three-course menu. The chef was present all the time!!!! Every day we saw wild game and had the opportunity to shoot. I didn't succeed in it for two days, and once I missed the Tahr at a distance of 340 meters. On the third day we spent the night at an altitude of 4100 meters above sea level. It was dark when we went hunting for a Blue sheep. After about two hours of hiking , we found a group of two males at a greater distance. I couldn't shoot because the animals were moving. We decided to climb the ridge and take a look. After about 20 minutes, we observed a group of two rams, and then five more large males joined. After a while, my guide MAN told me that there was an old male and he literally said "world record". He had never seen such a ram before......Choose the right strategy and hit the road. We should walk all day to see the rams from the top. At 2 pm we saw two sheep, although it was not the biggest one we saw in the morning, the guide gave the command to shoot, and suddenly we saw other sheep and our big one!!!! They were moving towards us and stopped about two hundred meters away. I fired, then a second time and the guide reported that it was wounded. At last I took it. Then we took the trophy and went down. The creep descend about 500 meters waited for us. The first task was completed. !!!! The next morning we moved to another altitude level. Two hours later we saw a Himalayan tahr, which was feeding under a rock. We were searching for it for about 3 hours and nothing. At last, we decided to go down below and look at the rocks from below. As the guide detected the animal when we was descending. The Tahr was retreating into the gorge. It walked about 210 meters and stopped for a moment. I took the carbine and fired right from my hand. It fell off a cliff. We found it in about an hour later and it was a great relief. The Blue sheep and the Himalayan Tahr turned out to be very worthy trophies. They both were 13 years old. So far it has been one of the most successful hunts for me. I can only recommend the service and professionalism of the organizer of the Global Safari in Nepal Pro. LLC. The staff and general service were at a high level. The friendly nature of Nepalese is unforgettable. Thank you friend Samsher Poruzhuly!!!!

Two years ago I tried to get the trophy of Aoudad sheep in Sudan. But it was unsuccessful. But this year I've done it and took it. It became possible in the Kingdom of Morocco."Audad" was hunted (that's how the Barbary sheep is called by the Berbers). Taking into account the fact that nature conservation hunting* for it is open only from this hunting season, the extraction process was extremely emotional. I would like to thank Erich Muller and Renaud Degrees du Lou for organizing and conducting this very important hunt for me.I thank Yevgeny Kharitonov for his support. .* Hunting within the framework of the project to restore the population of the Barbary sheep within the boundaries of the historical area with the support of King Mohammed VI of Morocco.

From March 11 to March 14, 2022, I hunted in Pakistan, Balochistan province, near the city of Quetta on Suleiman. My goal was to get trophies of Markhor and Afghan urial. Ilya Dmitriev - my constant hunting companion, organized the hunt. Everything was extremely well organized. We traveled to Islamabad through Qatar and it took us almost 10 hours. Then, there was a helicopter flight with a crew already familiar from a trip to Sust. It took us three hours more. And finally, we arrived to the hunting territory.  As always, there was a very large number of people who provided the hunting process. Accommodation was very well established, there was even hot water (!) which was very rare for the wild areas of Pakistan. At 6 am in the morning we left the camp and drove for the hunting area. The car drive lasted for about 45 minutes, and then the search began, which took about nine hours in 30-degree heat.  We saw several markhors, but they all were not the size and age that we were looking for. It was quite a difficult walking, plus the Sun was mercilessly scorching.  Finally, the right animal was found, I shot from a very uncomfortable position from a distance of 360 m, without an angle . The bullet hit to its spine and I fired a second shot in the neck in order not to torment the animal.  It was my last, the fifth markhor from the CMH list.  The next day, we hunted an Afghan urial in the same area where the hunt for Markhor took place.   That hunt turned out to be even more difficult than the previous day.  It took 11 hours of continuous searching and approaches, there were three misses on my part, and the temperature reached 35 degrees. As a result, the animal managed to be taken already at dusk, with a shot from 300 m.  Many thanks for the organization to Ilya Dmitriev and the Pakistani side, which very quickly solved issues and formalities and also excellently built logistics.

I got a male Musk deer on the fifth day of hunting. It wasn't an easy hunt. We were riding horses everyday. Four working dogs huskies helped us. The dogs surrounded the musk deer and I shot. The shooting distance was 50 meters. We were also looking for a bear and a wolverine, but didn't find them. The standard duration of the hunting trip is four and a half days, I've stayed for two more.

In 2004 I got  a Manzhurian deer on a road near Lake Baikal.

In 2015, I got a moose  in Prechisty, Yaroslavl region.

I got the first bear in the Vologda region, in August 2015.

In 2021, I visited Khabarovsk three times. The first time I hunted the Amur bear in the spring, then the Ussuri moose in the fall. After a successful moose hunt, I tried for six days to get a Himalayan bear, but it didn't work out. The beast did not come out for a bait. Probably, the bear was feeding on cones in those days. The December trip was the third that year. That time I prepared purposefully to get a Himalayan bear. On December 20, I arrived back in Khabarovsk. This hunt, as the previous one was organized by the company "Profi Hunt", Artem Veselov, it was my second attempt to take a Himalayan bear. Vadim Atroschenko, who was already familiar to me, met me in Khabarovsk. Our way lay to the village of Yuzhny and after 3 hours we were already in the house where Vadim used to live. The cook, Sergey, was waiting for us there. We had a quick lunch and got ready to go on snowmobiles to the hunting lands, but it didn't work out right away. It turned out that Vadim rented one of the snowmobiles – BRP Yeti 69 and mixed up the keys, preparing for departure. He had to go to Khabarovsk to get them. As a result, we were able to leave only three hours later. In fact, we started at night and arrived to the base at about 11 pm, where we were met by Konstantin, a local huntsman who recently discovered a hollow with a Himalayan bear. The next day, we divided into two group and moved to the tree where my future trophy laid for the hibernation. It's about an hour's drive from the cabin. We stopped the snow machines about 300 meters from that place and approached the den by hunting skis. Vadim found out in advance that the animal we needed left the hollow found by Konstantin and lay down in the roots of a large tree. The exit from that den was small – only about 40-50 cm in diameter. Vadim made sure that the bear was there and we began to prepare for the hunt. It was necessary to wake up the beast and we should create maximum inconvenience for it. Sergey and Konstantin cut down 3 trees. Two poles were used to plug the exit from the den, then Vadim took the third one and began to push intensively the sleeping predator. The bear did not react for about 15 minutes, one of the three working video cameras turned off during that time. Vadim pushed the bear for about 45 minutes, sweated, took off his jacket and persuaded Konstantin to change it for a while. By this time, the den dweller had begun to snap and tried to grab the log with which the hunters were pestering it. Vadim insured him with a "smooth" double-barreled shotgun in his hands while Konstantin was walking the bear up, then went back to work. After about an hour, he jumped back, and warned us that the bear had started to get out of its dwelling. The bear tried to throw away the pole that blocked the exit, then somehow got out, turned sideways and intended to go behind the tree to the right. I used the right moment, and fired my carbine. I took a Blazer P8, in caliber 338, with a cartridge loaded with an AccuBond bullet of 19.5 grams.  I hit the bear in the shoulder blade. It walked about 7 meters and collapsed dead. The hunt was over. My trophy turned out to be a trophy bear, aged 5-6 years. We did the photoshoot, then butchered the trophy, loaded it auto snowmobile and headed to the cabin, where Konstantin met us the day before. But suddenly, the domestic snowmobile "Wolverine" began to mess up, we barely started it only with the help of an additional battery. It was getting colder, and at night a 35-degree frost hit. We warmed up in the bath, packed and loaded the trophies. The next morning, we went to the village of Yuzhny. The sun was shining, the air temperature was minus 32. About an hour after we left the base, we discovered that we lost one bag. One of the bags fell out of the snowmobile while we were driving. We decided that Vadim would return by our tracks and find it. We stayed to wait for him. Two hours later we heard how he was shooting and drove to help him. It turned out that Vadim's snowmobile stalled finally after he found the lost cargo. As a result, Vadim had to return on foot on a snowmobile tracks. We never managed to start an imported snowmobile again. The bulbs were lit, but the starter did not react. We had nothing to do but threw the broken snowmobile in the taiga. We distributed the cargo, hooked two sleds to the domestic "Wolverine", Sergey jumped on the sledge too and continued on the way. Fortunately, our team overcame the rest of the road without incidents. Later in the village we loaded the bags into the car and we were in Khabarovsk in three hours. The next day I flew to Moscow. So ended my second, but successful attempt to get a Himalayan bear. I thank Profihunt, Vadim Atroschenko, Konstantin and Sergey for a successful hunt at the den.