Reports

It was my fastest decision, which I made about hunting. I took in in the last autumn, against the background of heated discussions about the closure of the hunt for the Altai ibex in Russia. I decided not to risk and close that position in my trophy list. It was cold.  Hunting took place the very end of November. The temperature at night was up to -28C, during the day -15C. A long road to the hunting area. It was difficult. But, the trophy is taken. I shot at 475m angle 11⁰. 10-year-old trophy.

On November 1 - 4, 2021 and January 26 - February 2, 2022, I hunted the Red sheep and Armenian mouflon in Texas, USA. The hunting took place in 70 km from Alpine. I got a Red sheep at a distance of 150 yards on the first day of hunting. The Armenian mouflon has managed to get only in 2022 on the second hunt. I shot it  on the first  hunting day at a distance of 300 yards. In 2022, it was possible to get a mountain lion according to the hunting program. The hunt was led by Rocky McBride (the older brother of Roadie McBride), a well-known hereditary specialist in hunting and trapping cougars and jaguars in the West. The cougar hunting in Texas is notable for the fact that there is no snow there and finding tracks and reading them by dogs is difficult. The female cougar (mountain lion ) was captured only on the sixth last day of the hunt.

In December 2021, I hunted a Barbary sheep in South Africa.

It happened so that I did not have a chance to get a bear in traditional hunts for this beast  at the time of the beginning of my carreer in mountain hunting. Nevertheless, the desire to get that predator remained. Last year I made an attempt to get a bear in the mountains. But as a result of the search was that we found only the female bear.  There were bears when hunting turs , but we didn't chase them before the main trophy was taken.  And after that,  there was no meeting. In the fall of 2021, it was decided to organize a bear hunt only and hunt purposefully. I traveled to hunting  with my son traditionally. The hunt turned out to be very hard. Traces of the bear's presence were everywhere: in the forest zone, on the southern slopes, at the crossings of streams, but it was not possible to see the animal. As a result, on day 4, a worthy trophy was found 1.5 kilometers away on the slope in the very rocks.  When we had risen to the viewpoint the beast was no longer there. It started raining and snowing. It was gettign dark and we had to go down. The next day we went to the other side of that circus and found our trophy 240 m away from us at an altitude of 3100 m.  One shot completed this fascinating and very difficult hunt.

Chinese roe deer (47 4/8, typical) and Manchurian deer (194 2/8).

Last November I got out to Kyrgyzstan. I wanted to get the trophy of the Tien Shan argali (Karelini) in the Issyk-Kul region. The hunt took place at an altitude of about 4000 m .  I used caliber of 300mm, the shooting distance was 480 meters. Everything worked out.