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It was pouring rain. I shot from the distance 250 meters, with the angle 35 degrees. It was the easy hunt.

I’d got my trophy in the first hunting day but it wasn’t easy. I fired twice from the distance 500 meters and at the angle  of 20 degrees. The second shot was  to be sure.

I and my grandson hunted in France from November 1 to 6. This trip was planned beforehand because we were going to get the Chartreuse and Vercors Chamois and there were limited numbers of licenses for those species. We flew to Leon and then drove to Grenoble where stayed for a night. In early morning we moved to the village Korbel and began to climb the mountains. After a while we reached the rocks and started to observe mounting trying to spot chamois. The weather began to deteriorate and we went to another place. Our guide Kristof detected four animals and said that two of them had trophy size. We began to approach but they smelled us and ran away. It began to rain heavily and we decided to descend to dry and to change cloth. We found and picked up some mushrooms which cooked and ate later. Weather became better after a lunch and we took the attempt to drive to another place. The nice male was detected on the distance 710 meters, we discussed what do to do started the climb. I’d risen to 300 meters when met a really good male which appeared in 180 meters from our group. I fired and hit it. The used gun was Blazer 300WM. The goat went about 30 meters and stopped. The second shot pushed the chamois down from the ledge. It fall to the top of the tree and didn’t damage. The luck was on our side. The preliminary measurement showed that it could won the Gold medal. The horns were more than 24 inches.Next day we moved to the new place for a hunt for the Vercors Chamois. It was so rainy in the first day that we stayed on the base. The next day, November 4 it was too foggy and we could hardly see mountains so stayed in the place once again. The last hunting day came. We got up early and went to the mountains. One of us noticed three chamois which grazed on the slope and one of them had trophy size. We approached stealthily the group and the guide decided to go around and to point them in our direction. Jury (my grandson) heard the noise from the stones and I prepared to shoot. Chamois appeared in sixty meters from us and were ready to run. I fired twice and the wounded male ran down the slope. I shot the third time when it was running past us and took it. We were so happy to get trophies in such weather conditions. Thank you very much to Daniel- the local outfitter and our guide Kris.

I hunted in KCR at the end of October and got the trophy of the Kuban Tur. It wasn’t difficult and everything was organized well in the very “Indian” area. Special thanks to Hasan.

I wanted to get Kri-Kri Ibex for a long time and guys from the Stalker-Group even had booked the license for me a year ago. Before leaving I’d known that could get Hybrid Kri-Kri Ibex and the island Mouflon to addition to the main trophy. My guides told me that mouflons were delivered to that part of the country at the 70th in the last century from Sardinia. The first hunting area was on the north of the country in the North Reserve where I was going to get the Hybrid Ibex. It was the first time when I hunted for the mountain ungulates using the smoothbore shotgun. I wasn’t experienced in hunting with such kind of Arms and that’s why decided to shoot to the male which was the closest to me because could approach it secretly. I fired with hands from the distance 82 meters. A young four years male became my trophy. In three hours after walking in the rain and looking for the next trophy we decided to go back to the hotel and began to descend but lucked smiled on us and I’d got the opportunity to get the Hybrid Kri-Kri which was rising meet us. It was a good size, 8 years old male. Next day we'd driven about eight hours and arrived to the small town where stayed for a night. In the morning we changed the car to the boat and saild to the Sapience Island where were going to hunt for the mouflon. I decided that I would shoot the adult Kri-Kri If I met it. And I was lucky once again and had the chance to approach and shoot to the nice male. The shooting distance was 70 meters and I hit it. The length of the horns were 75 and 74 sm.Three hours later we detected the old mouflon which I took form the distance 50 meters.Thank you very much to my guides Pol and Petros who are very professional. Thank you to the Stalker Group company and my personal thanks to Lyudmila Baranova for the organization of this hunt.

It was my third trip to this hunting area and hunted  with my son as usual. The previous two attempts were unsuccessful. First time I missed and then weather had changed. Weather was the reason of the second failure too.  This time I tried to predict everything. The hunt was organized in the later time when animals descend lower and chances to get a good trophy was higher. In the first morning we monitored the slopes and detected a good size male in three km from us. The climb to 600 meters took us two hours. The sun  had risen and dazzled the eyes awfully. But I got the trophy from the first shot  and from the distance 350 meters.

I hunted with friends on Pamir near the lake Karakul. The hunt was organized by Jury Matisson. Originally we were going to hunt in the  Balancec gorge but couldn’t cross the pass because of snow. I had to change plans and to move to the Bos Baital gorge. The tent camp was set on the altitude 4200 masl but we had to go down 200 meters for the hunt and then  to climb.  It didn’t take much time to detect the first group of Ibexes. The guides worried that we hadn’t time to rise because animals stood on the top. In an hour and a half we reached the bridge but were moving in the snow storm and got past ibexes.  When snow stopped we found that they stayed a little below us on the left. I got the nice 10 years male by the first shot. Next morning we spotted the group of sheep which grazed on the slope on the height 4300 masl. My guide Ozod and I approached and pushed them. I took my 10 years trophy from the distance 400 meters. Thank you to Jury Matisson and to his team for the excellent organization of the hunt.

I arrived to Macedonia because wanted to get the Balkan Chamois. This trip began from my call to the Stalker Group  company. I said, that wanted to hunt somewhere in the weekend and the desired trophy is the chamois. The conversation took place in Wednesday and in a day Jury Morozov called me back  and invited me to Makedonia.  I flew to Sofia and then drove to Skopje. The rented car didn’t have the green card and the border guides refused didn’t let me to cross the border.  I called to Jury Morozov and the receiving party met me on there in two hours but I had to cross the border by taxi.  It was evening when I arrived to the Base camp and met there our Club friends from Spain. Juan Antonio Garcia hunted there for the third day. We sat till midnight talking stories and discussing plans. I got up at 5am, had light breakfast and moved to the mountains.  We drove up most of the way and then climbed for an hour. I wasn’t even tired when we detected several chamois but all of them were small. We walked for a while when noticed the another group. There was a good size trophy. I made the one but accurate shot from the distance 200 meters. The used cal. Was 300 WM. Thank you very much to the Stalker Group company and personally  to Jury Morozov for this hunt. Everything was organized on the very professional level.

I got the Chamois not far from Grenoble, France. It was short and comfortable hunt, which took just one evening. The shooting distance was 220 m.

Охота п233221mvzfnm;6роходила в Преградненском районе и была организована на очень высоком 9*87-31уровне.  Через час подъема мы обнаружили группу мужчин. Я стрелял с расстояния 330 метров под углом 36 градусов. Большое спасибо Владимиру Кукоте и Михаилу Паладычеву за эту интересную охоту.

First time I tried to get the trophy in that place was in Jan. 2019 but it wasn’t lucky that’s why we came back to the same place in October. I needed just one day to take the Corsican Mouflon though the climbing was tough!This animal is the 40th Sheep according the GSCO classification and makes it one of the most valuable trophies in my collection.Thank you very much to Ilya Dmitriev for the organization of this and all previous mountain hunts.

It was the successful hunt, organized on the border between Kyrgyzstan and China. I got three nice trophies: two Argali and the Mid Asian Ibex. We were lucky with weather, snow started just on the third day. Next morning, when we woke up,  it was the real snowstorm and the road was blocked by snow. Fortunately we could cross the pass and arrived to Naryn. Thank you very much to our guides for their professionalism and for the organization of this hunt.