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Hunting in Kyrgyzstan: What you need to know

Hunting Destinations / Asia

Kyrgyzstan offers unique high-altitude hunting experiences for Siberian ibex, argali, and Marco Polo sheep amidst challenging, rugged terrains and fascinating cultural traditions.

Is There Such a Thing as an Over-the-Counter Sheep Hunt that Won’t Break the Bank?

Hunting Tips and Techniques / BookYourHunt

Are there sheep hunting options for those Americans who weren’t lucky with the draw and can’t pay six figures for a governor’s tag? Yes!

The King of Mountain Game: Ibex and Ibex Hunting

Asia / Hunting 101

What is greyish or brownish in color, has horizontal pupils, a short tail, long, usually scimitar-shaped horns, stands on hooves that seem to glue to rocks and stones, and makes some hunters spend four to five figures for a chance to spend a few days in some of the most inhospitable ranges? Meet the ibex.

Chamois Hunting in New Zealand: What You Need to Know

New Zealand / Hunting Tips and Techniques

Graceful, agile, and elusive, the chamois is a cornerstone of European mountain hunting. But the best place to go after chamois lies well away from the Old World – in New Zealand.

Hunting in Spain: What you need to know

Hunting Tips and Techniques / Europe

Discover everything you need to know about hunting in Spain—from iconic ibex and traditional monterías to travel tips, gun import rules, and cultural insights.

The Memories Your Make: My mountain hunt in New Zealand

New Zealand / BookYourHunt / Hunting Stories

It was supposed to be the hunt of a lifetime for the author and his father – and so it was. A BookYourHunt.com client tells the story how he harvested chamois, tahr, and other animals in New Zealand, how he learned from and made friendship with the guides.

Eight Questions about Mountain Goat hunting

Hunting Tips and Techniques / BookYourHunt

Mountain goat hunting is described as the most underrated hunting experience in North America. Where, when and how to hunt mountain goats, and how much does it cost?

Goats on the Rim of the World. By James Reed

Hunting Stories

High adventure on a challenging mountain goat hunt in the Canadian Rockies.

Caucasian Tur and Its Hunting

Hunting Tips and Techniques / Europe

Can’t decide whether you want to hunt mountain sheep or mountain goat? Hunt the Tur, it’s both! Jokes aside, while biological classification refers the Caucasian Tur to genus Capra, for the Ovis Club a Tur trophy counts towards both Ovis and Capra slams.

Hunting in Northern China

Asia / Hunting History / Hunting Stories

Today, you can’t legally go hunting in China. A century ago, however, things were different, and you can find testimony on pages of old books. Here we reproduce a few extracts from one such book, “Fur and Feather in Northern China” by Arthur de Carle Sowerby, F.R.G.S., published in 1914. Bats, admittedly, are mentioned only in passing, but we hope you’ll enjoy the stories about wild sheep, wapiti, and antelope.

Barbary Bighorns of West Texas. By James Reed

BookYourHunt / Hunting Stories

Many people look down upon introduced animals, or “exotics,” but Barbary sheep, or aoudad, originally introduced from Africa’s Barbary Coast, have been roaming free in the southwestern United States for at least half a century, and have thrived in this new environment. They provide a true, challenging mountain hunt.

Uzbekistan: A New Destination on BookYourHunt.com Map

BookYourHunt / News / Hunting is Conservation / Asia

BookYourHunt.com is proud to announce the addition of a new destination – Uzbekistan. The country may not be your first association with “mountain hunting”, but with unique endemic species and a set of conditions that ensures great trophies, it has to be on every hardcore mountain hunter’s bucket list.