Sierra Hunter
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Hard to capture the totality of an experience like this but I’ll do my best to describe the meat and potatoes. I was going for adventure which to me meant elevation/Mtns and a unique species to chase. The travel is as brutal as everyone talks about, the flights were the easy part with about 22hrs of flight time, the truly hard part was then getting in a car for 18-19hrs with poor road conditions that prevent you from sleeping because you’re bouncing around so much. We narrowly missed a rock slide by truly seconds and ended up rolling a truck in a snowstorm, like everything we all do the travel is the most dangerous part.
Camp was at 13.4k ft and after a headache the first evening my body settled in and I felt better and stronger each day. Most of the hunting was done between 14-15k ft and at some point you get used it. These critters were more more turned on than anything I’ve ever hunted, their eyes were incredible and I got pegged at 600yds just by popping my head from behind a boulder, it was humbling. Expect long shots, getting inside 400 isn’t easy with so little cover. The one I took was part of a big group that busted us crawling in a dry creek 400 yds away and ran up the cliff but stopped and I ended up shooting at 200yds. I of course wanted the biggest one I could find but after some failed stalks where the guides pushed animals and were too aggressive with bad wind I wasn’t going to get too picky and picked the first mature animal out of the group. It was an incredible experience but not for everyone, you have to be willing to go with the flow and recognize you can’t control much and you’re in their world, be ready to shoot long distance and enjoy high altitude mountain hunting. That being said I’m looking forward to my next adventure, Azerbaijan, Nepal, etc
Camp was at 13.4k ft and after a headache the first evening my body settled in and I felt better and stronger each day. Most of the hunting was done between 14-15k ft and at some point you get used it. These critters were more more turned on than anything I’ve ever hunted, their eyes were incredible and I got pegged at 600yds just by popping my head from behind a boulder, it was humbling. Expect long shots, getting inside 400 isn’t easy with so little cover. The one I took was part of a big group that busted us crawling in a dry creek 400 yds away and ran up the cliff but stopped and I ended up shooting at 200yds. I of course wanted the biggest one I could find but after some failed stalks where the guides pushed animals and were too aggressive with bad wind I wasn’t going to get too picky and picked the first mature animal out of the group. It was an incredible experience but not for everyone, you have to be willing to go with the flow and recognize you can’t control much and you’re in their world, be ready to shoot long distance and enjoy high altitude mountain hunting. That being said I’m looking forward to my next adventure, Azerbaijan, Nepal, etcAttachments
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