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The trophy was taken near the Kegety tract (Tokmok).I used calibre 300 WM and put “ mountain hunter mark” under the eyebrow. It was the lesson which taught me to be more attentive when shooting to the steep angle up. My guide Makhsad Taranchev was young at that time but very professional and did good approach to the animal.

It was my second trophy of the Central Asian Ibex which I got in October, 2015. I fired from the distance 300 m and made just one shot. The used caliber is 300 win mag.The hunt was organized on the border with China. We rode by horses while reached the foot of the mountains and then climbed about 500 meters. The trophy is 11 years old male with horns 113sm. Thank you very much to my guide Mashad. I hope to hunt with him once again.

Район охоты находится где-то в 200 км севернее от Магадана, часть пути проходит на машине до Мадауна и затем на снегоходах в это время года. Температура колеблется от -24 до -15 градусов, поэтому к 4-х часовой поездке на снегоходе нужно специально подготовиться. В горах, на подьезде к базе, нас накрыла метель, что продлило на пару часов наше путешествие: несколько раз глубоко засели и откапывали снегоходы. На следующий день метель продолжалась, что не позволило вообще выйти на поиски трофеев. Второй день, несмотря на продолжающуюся, но затихающую метелеь, дал нам несколько окон для наблюдения за соседними горами. В общей сложности прошли около 12 км, но баранов не обнаружили. На третий день стало совсем ясно, что позволило нам, с первыми лучами солнца, начать осмотр окрестностей. Вскоре на рссстоянии 700 метров были обнаружены 4 барана, один из которых представлял трофейную ценность. Начался подход. Наблюдая за баранами, мы подползли на 430 метров, замерив расстояние, я уже начал корретировать баллистическую туррель прицела, когда вдруг баран, изменив резко направление движения, скрылся за сопкой! И, буквально вынырнул на расстоянии 100 метров от нас! Мгновенно изменив кратность прицела, с рук, с колена стреляю в трофей. Баран падает на месте!

I flew to Bucharest because wanted to add a new sample to my Chamois collection. We drove about 220 km and arrived to the  authentic resort town  Băile Olanesti which is known by its mineral springs. It was rain while we were driving and the weather forecast for the next day wasn’t optimistic: fog and rain. We started at 6mp and arrived to the mountains in forty minutes. We left the car and began to climb. Snow changed the rain but we went on deeper to the forest. Animals preferred to go down in such weather and soon we detected several groups of animals, from 3 to 5 males in each. It didn’t take much time to find the nice trophy size male which I got from the distance 170 meters. Blazer R93, cal. 300 win mag.

I hunted in KCR in 2018. My goal was to get the Kuban Tur and Chamois. I couldn't take the Tur by the objective reasons and rescheduled it to the next year but was lucky with the Chamois. Thank you very mucht to Khadzhy-Marat Bostanov for this hunt and hospitality. I shot from the distance 300 meters to the running male.

The rules of the weapon’s transportation to the territory of Romania had been changed and I has to stay for a night in Bucharest. Next day we got guns and drove to Carpathians, spent night in the hunting base and moved to the mountains in early morning.The first day was full failure. It was rainy and foggy, moreover I forget special clothes on the base and was wet. It was difficult to go because of the wet and slippery grass and stones. I tried to approach a big male but it noticed us and disappeared in the fog, then I shot to the laying chamois but missed. But the next day we were awarded. I got nice eight year old male. The shooting distance was 520 meters, the angle 28 degrees. This chamois was the twelves in my collection and got me the Gold level in the nomination of the MHC “World’s Chamois”/Thank you very much to my guide Katalin for his professional work and to the representative of the local outfitter Lutian.My personal thanks to Evgeniy Kharitonov who accompanied me and all team of the Stalker Group company.

It was my second visit to Prince George in this year. I arrived on November 1st. The first time the hunt for the American goat was canceled because they hadn’t the hydroplane to land on the lake and to hunt from the tent camp. I had to hunt for the Black bear not to waste time.  I arranged the goat hunt in November but it cost much more.  It took us about 5 hours’ drive from Prince George to the town Chetwynd. I stayed there for nights during all trip.  Next day we drove to the hunting area and monitored a group of goats, about 30-40 animals, which grazed in 3km from us. Unfortunately the bear attacked them from above and the herd moved to another side of the mountain. On the day #2 we climbed the mountain, what took us 3.5 hours and detected a big male with two females. But they also headed behind the slope and we didn’t’ see them anymore. We had to come back. It was snowy for two days and I spent time waiting for good weather. But my hopes were not to be fulfilled. At last we ascended to the same mountain and found the trophy. I fired from the distance 500 meters and got it by the first shot. Next days we hunted for deers, wolves and a lynx. Thus I took the additional trophy of the Black Canadian wolf and lynx. This hunt was the most difficult in physical terms.