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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

Europe / Hunting Tips and Techniques

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

Asia / BookYourHunt / Hunting is Conservation / News

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.

James Reed returning from a hunt in Alaska

Skookum Rams of the Brooks Range. By James Reed

BookYourHunt / Hunting Stories

It’s been a long time since we posted a story by James Reed. In the meanwhile, the BookYourHunt.com Director for North America has been on yet another dream hunt.

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

BookYourHunt / Hunting Tips and Techniques

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?

Ruins of an ancient abandoned fortress in Tajikistan

To the Roots of Mountain Hunting: Part II

BookYourHunt / Hunting Stories

Frank Zitz had his reservations before going Ibex hunting with Hunting&Conservation Alliance of Tajikistan. It proved to be a fantastic trip, with great hospitality, professional team, outstanding insights into local culture, and above all great hunting, with healthy herd of mountain game ensured by trophy hunting funded conservation.

To the Roots of Mountain Hunting: Americans in the mountains of Tajikistan

BookYourHunt / Hunting Stories

What can an American hunter discover on an Ibex hunt in Tajikistan? Can a female huntress expect problems in a Muslim country? How does trophy hunting contribute to a healthy herd of Ibex, Marco Polo Sheep, Snow Leopards, and other fauna of Tajikistan? This is how three American hunters who came to Tajikistan in 2017 answer these questions.