This is my first hunting experience with a client/hunter from the UK.
John was really looking forward to this trip, so I prepared it so that everything would go according to plan, or above expectations if possible. We would try to hunt a Gredos ibex and a mouflon.
I picked John up from Madrid airport on Tuesday afternoon and we drove to the Gredos mountains. Once there and after a short rest at the hotel, we enjoyed a delicious dinner with top quality local meat and other typical Spanish dishes, accompanied by Spanish red wine and beer.
The next morning, we got up early to start hunting almost at sunrise, and it was not long before we saw the first ibex in Gredos. They were young animals that did not coincide with what we were looking for John, a silver medal Gredos ibex.
We continued through a spectacular gorge as you can see in the attached pictures, and when we had been walking for about an hour, an ibex like the one we were looking for appeared.
He was about 200 metres away, but as the sun was already hot, it was on his way to the highest rocks of the mountain where it could rest in the shade. It gave us a chance at 350 metres and John felt confident enough and took the shot, the animal fell on the spot.
Collecting it took about half an hour due to the steepness of the terrain but at last we were there. Enjoying such a majestic animal.
John took the opportunity to enjoy a cold beer and a plate of Iberian ham that I had brought him in my backpack, while I removed the animal's skin, celebrating such a special moment as it deserved.
As John told me before returning to the UK, the experience could not have gone better for him, and he is looking forward to coming back to Spain to hunt with me.
The most comforting thing for me about taking people hunting is that they leave happy and want to come back, this is the mission of www.topspanishhunting.com
The next day we hunted the mouflon I will share the hunt in another post!
John was really looking forward to this trip, so I prepared it so that everything would go according to plan, or above expectations if possible. We would try to hunt a Gredos ibex and a mouflon.
I picked John up from Madrid airport on Tuesday afternoon and we drove to the Gredos mountains. Once there and after a short rest at the hotel, we enjoyed a delicious dinner with top quality local meat and other typical Spanish dishes, accompanied by Spanish red wine and beer.
The next morning, we got up early to start hunting almost at sunrise, and it was not long before we saw the first ibex in Gredos. They were young animals that did not coincide with what we were looking for John, a silver medal Gredos ibex.
We continued through a spectacular gorge as you can see in the attached pictures, and when we had been walking for about an hour, an ibex like the one we were looking for appeared.
He was about 200 metres away, but as the sun was already hot, it was on his way to the highest rocks of the mountain where it could rest in the shade. It gave us a chance at 350 metres and John felt confident enough and took the shot, the animal fell on the spot.
Collecting it took about half an hour due to the steepness of the terrain but at last we were there. Enjoying such a majestic animal.
John took the opportunity to enjoy a cold beer and a plate of Iberian ham that I had brought him in my backpack, while I removed the animal's skin, celebrating such a special moment as it deserved.
As John told me before returning to the UK, the experience could not have gone better for him, and he is looking forward to coming back to Spain to hunt with me.
The most comforting thing for me about taking people hunting is that they leave happy and want to come back, this is the mission of www.topspanishhunting.com
The next day we hunted the mouflon I will share the hunt in another post!
