hi I'm Guy Eastman your host and this is Eastman's hunting TV on this week's show
we're gonna pick up where we left off last week in the high country of Central
Asia last week Ike was able to take a big Siberian ibex and this week I'm
hoping it's my turn so let's not waste any time let's get back to ibex hunting
in the Altai mountains of central Mongolia
after catching a few short hours of sleep it was time to get our gear
together and load the Jeeps for the first morning of the hunt
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finally reached our destination just after sunrise it wasn't long before
you're looking at our first band of ibex
an ibex over 40 inches it's like a 30 inch mule deer so there's two in the
backer are right at 40 maybe maybe more one is real dark horn to the other
ones light aren't it real wide so we got a pump this morning and they smelled us
came up over the top I think there's about 15 to 25 X in that bunch they're
all males are all billy's so hopefully there's a big one in there now that the
Sun's up their head to the rocks to bed down for the day so we're gonna get out
probably out on this vantage point if I had to guess and get Rican glass on the
spotting scope and judge him up and see if he is worth going after
watch things over for about an hour but nothing showed the guides figured the
Ibex have bedded down on the backside of the ridge and decided it was time to
make our move
they spotted them they're bedded up in that rock ground on that ridge so we are gonna
drop back on the backside this rage and sneak her out
our guy carefully looked over the Ibex but the big Billy's were nowhere to be
found and just as the group began to run off we realized there were more ibex we
couldn't see in the rocks below us
well that didn't work out so well we can't doubt where we saw those ibex sure
enough we weren't ready for now from underneath us game three big guy begs
one of them is just outstanding about 45 plus injure the other ones about a 42
and then a smaller one and so that wasn't so good I could get shot
welcome back to the Altai mountains of northern Mongolia before the break I had
a close encounter with some huge ibex Billy's we spent the rest of the day
hiking in search of the three huge Billy's and eventually caught up to them
a few drainages over
unfortunately they spotted us before we could close the distance and took off
never to be seen again other than a few blown stocks an encounter with a
Mongolian wolf and a few interesting discoveries things were fairly
uneventful and frustration was beginning to build it's the last morning of our
ibex hunt here in the Altai mountains of Mongolia we've located a band of ibex
bedded underneath the ridge in the distance
let's pick things up as we make a last-itch effort to put an ibex on the
ground
you don't really know what's going on
the language barrier tried to wreak havoc on me one last time as I got into
position for the shot the guide who did speak some English instructed me to
shoot the one on the right as he pointed to the one on the left eventually we got
things sorted out and I took aim at the Billy furthest to the left we finally
connected after five long days in Mongolia it's been a real deal we've had
a lot of ups and downs on this hunt but we finally connected with a really nice
ibex he was the biggest one in the bunch there's about eight or nine of them
there and they were just bedded we got right up here and 330 yards shot right
down just like a high mountain mule deer
well this is the culmination of our ibex experience I'll tell you what I couldn't
be happier I'm just completely elated we hunted five hard rugged rough days here
in the Altai mountains in western mongolia and just had a great experience
and it was tough and grueling hunting 20 hours a day little sleep got sick during
the hunt up and down these hills non-stop but it's great time we wouldn't
have it any other way it's everything that you would expect mongolia to be
remember fair chase the only way to hunt and take trophy big game we'll see you
next week right here on Eastman's hunting TV