I use both, Hornady ELD-x, that is grenade, when I need shooting " soft skin animals" or long range to be sure for a good expansion, and LRX Barnes when I shoot big animals in relatively close distances " under 350 yards" with this combination I'm ready for everything, the good part in that in...
Americans and Europeans still hunting in Russia, risk is always everywhere. Many times media is manipulated I travelled to Rusia and Belarus 4 times this year and always was perfect. Now is good moment because less foreigners hunters are going due to this and prices are cheaper. The people there...
Congrats for that ibex!!! True adventure. Not the biggest ibex in the area but is a good ibex and the most important at the end is the awesome experience
Nobody is going to warranty you 50 pigs in free range , although sometimes in some driven hunts they hunt a big number than this. If you only want pigs I recommend you book 3-4 hunts. Also you can go to some driven hunt that offer you the pigs + some of the other animals ( mouflon, roe, deer ...
In all these conventions usually go many European outffiters , but maybe not the best place.. The best place will be go to some European convention usually Germany has the best , followed by Spain. Here you will have hundreds European outffiters with better price
Poland and the east countries used to be the best countries, unfortunately African swine fever affected them a lot and kill almost 80 or 90% of their pigs., Poland some areas still good ..Now is better look into countries without the fever: Germany ,Hungary, Slovakia( were affected by the fever...
You are correct, but per example the magic months for mountain hunt are November and December, that you can hunt all the mountain animals without problems. October and January are also good ( January only in Spain) . Later a good month is April in the spring you can hunt chamois, ibex, mouflon...
Yes France for the different chamois + mouflon+ deers.
I will choose Spain and Romania without doubt, for the central part ( Austria or Slovenia ) talking about mountain hunt, I love both countries.
But if you like forest hunting I will change the options.
In Europe without doubt Spain has the most diversity in hunting, after this will be France. Each country has his beauty, alpine ibex are wonderful and maybe are the top ibex in Europe but expensive, the different chamois I love all of them difficult choose one but if I have to choose it will be...
You have mouflon in free range or fence in Spain and also Barbary sheep free range. Barbary sheep in France or Macedonia are only in fence areas, moose and bison also in Belarus although is not Europe but the hunt there is amazing. Pyrinean chamois is also in Spain.
You can add Balearian boc (...
If your pursuit it is the grand slam you can make Tadyikistan instead of Kyrgyzstan, because there you can hunt the Pamir ibex and the Bukharan ibex.
In Turkey you can add easily chamois, also exist the Nemrut ibex but this one is very expensive.
There are places and places, in SA there are lots of fence areas very easy to hunt other ones very difficult of course also free range with thousand of acres like you said and very " wild"
Spain is the same there are many fence areas that is like a farm just shoot from the car if you want...
Beceite and South east without doubt, best price, best trophies and easier to make it in logistic.
Gredos very expensive nowadays and still rising and Ronda ibex the price is ok but trophies usually are smaller because the genetics and due to a disease " scabies" kill many of the population...
For me without doubt it will be and ibex in some of the " Stan" countries, for this price it's difficult to defeat it, the price-adventure value is incredible, but sometimes is not the most comfortable hunting but enough.
Africa and plain games if you like pull the trigger a lot but and take a...
I hunted the 4 ibex in Spain because I'm from here and for me is very easy hunt them, but if I were from another country and my budget were limited definitely I would only hunt two of them, Beceite and depend the budget Gredos ( expensive) or south -east.
If you like true adventure and hard...
I have the 7 of Spain ( 4 ibex, 2 chamois and the balerian boc), plus 7 different chamois ( Alpine, Vercors, Chartreuse, Anatolian, Balkan, Carpathian , Caucasian ) also you can add low-trata chamois this will be my final chamois.
With this you have the Capra world slam and the cost is half...
This price is very over rated, you can hunt a representative ibex in 3000 USD, add the international flight 1500 USD, export trophy add other 1000-2000 USD depend and some little more expenses, you can make it in less than 8000 USD everything.