Reports

On 10th and 11th February I hunted a Barbary sheep in Morocco. The hunt was led by Renaud Degri Du Du Du and was very well organised, thanks to the reconnaissance that had been carried out beforehand. We set off for the mountains early in the morning, stopping at the gendarmerie to register our cartridges and passports. By 10am we were at the beginning of the climb and spent a couple of hours looking for animals. We identified the biggest sheep and from a distance of 440 m and at an angle of 22° I fired. The animal fell on the spot. Special thanks to Ilya Dmitriev for organising the hunt!

For many days I watched the weather forecast and waited for it to change radically for the worse, because that's when the big ibexes would come down and move away from the bad weather. On 20 November I looked at the weather forecast for 22-25 November and it promised snow for the first 2 days with temperature changes of 10-14°. Such changes heralded a good time for hunting (kansoar). So I left for Ucharal town early in the morning of 23rd November, it was pouring in the town and in the mountains, according to the guides, it was snowing and there was a strong wind. All the way there was just a wonderful atmosphere. On arrival, we drank tea, told hunting stories and started preparing for the mountains. After packing rucksacks and everything we needed, we had dinner and went to bed early. We got up at 5am, there was fresh snow and frost outside. We went to the hunting site and spent the first day just exploring the area. We decided to move the search for a trophy to another canyon. On the second day we set out as early as possible, climbed to the highest point, it was cold and frosty. We explored all the gorges and finally saw an excellent group of ibexes, about 30 animals, mostly females. We discussed how to approach them. I would like to say a few words of praise about the outfit that served me perfectly: camouflage from Kryptek dalibor 2, skyfall colour, for hunting at this time of year is just great, the bottom two layers of clothing also from Kryptek, shoes from Crispi mountain gtx. We spent an hour and a half approaching the ibexes very carefully so as not to frighten them. Eventually we got to a distance of 607 metres. I decided to shoot at that distance. We measured the distance, the angle, made corrections and I was ready to shoot. I hit the target the first time! The ibex fell on the spot and we shouted all over the gorge. It was a happiness beyond words. As we walked towards our prey, every second that brought us closer to the long-awaited trophy seemed like an eternity. As we approached, I truly understood the greatness and strength of this animal. Now I have even more respect for every ibex.

I took my long-awaited Anatolian chamois and it was my 10th chamois from the World Chamois List. The hunt is physically demanding, the ascents and descents are hard, the chamois population is small and I only took my chamois on the third day of the hunt. There is a lot of snow in the mountains and many bears that chase the chamois to the tops in search of food. I shot from a distance of 194 metres at an angle of -37°. The hunt was organised for me by my friends, Nimrod Hunting Tours.

In November 2023 I took a Tien Shan Argali in Kyrgyzstan at a distance of 600 metres, angle -19°, and a Hume’s Argali at a distance of 317 metres, angle +8°. The hunt was hard.

My successful trip to Mongolia for three species of ibex!

In my first hour of hunting in France, I took a Corsican sheep.

I took an Iberian mouflon in Spain.

This was an interesting and exciting hunt during the rut.

It was a bear hunting over bait. On the first day the animal did not come out, but on the second day, after 5 hours of waiting, the bear appeared!

Mountain hunting is very unpredictable, we had planned to hunt lower, but the weather was warm and we had to go to the top of the ridge.

Hunted in August 2021 in central Kamchatka, Milkovsky district. The weather was not good. It was raining, but in the meantime I managed to take a beautiful trophy of snow sheep. Shot from a distance of 240 m. Clb 300 WM. Blaser R8, Zeiss 2.8-20/56 optics. The hunt was organised by Eventus Hunt.

On the first day of hunting Bukharan Markhor we observed several groups of animals on different slopes, but no suitable trophy was seen.  At the very end of the evening hunt we observed a group of 3 males, one of which had good trophy qualities. The group split up and just as that trophy male was moving towards us, not giving us a chance to take aim. In the end at a distance of 588 metres he stopped, but not for long and I was not able to make a shot. Just a few seconds after stopping the male skipped down into the gorge. That was the end of the first day of the hunt. The second day of the hunt we started with a survey of the nearest slope, found a trophy, started our approach, but the male also noticed us and went over the ridge. A few minutes later, huntsmen reported that they had seen it resting on the slope. We decided to try our luck and approach it, but from the other side of the mountain. During the approach the huntsmen observed the animal, but when they got to the right spot they lost sight of it. As a result, all we could see was a group of 3 young males making a typical "quack" and a group of females with youngsters, and the trophy male disappeared somewhere. Suddenly, from the bottom of the gorge, right below us, the same male we saw last night and this morning rises. He had isolated a group of females and was moving confidently towards the young males. Having received permission from the huntsman, without wasting a second, I fired a precise shot from a distance of 250 metres and took a trophy of a 9-year-old Bukharan markhor! I would like to express my gratitude to Bekhruz, the organiser of the hunt!