Red Legged Driven Partridges in Spain    A typical Spanish red-legged partridge hunt is when beaters drive the birds Enabling you to shoot hundreds of them from one position.   You will be assisted by people called ”secretarios” who supply partridges, load the guns, and pick up the birds while providing all kinds of comforts.     This method of hunting is called “ojeo” in Spanish.   Finuala Flanagan Barrett  Spanish Driven Partridges   We also offer driven red legged partridge, pheasant and ducks shooting in the Balearic Islands (Palma de Mallorca), which can be combined with hunting on the Balear goat.     Once the hunt is finished you will enjoy a typical Spanish lunch “migas” and then, if you like, you can go walk-hunting accompanied by game handlers and well trained dogs.         We own special hunting areas with small lowlands located on the medium size mountain chains where it is possible to make great shoots.            

Vasyl Goshovskyy – Finest hunting knives      Vasyl Goshovskyy · Handmade knives  I am Vasyl Goshovskyy, knifemaker from the Ukraine, actually living in Torreblanca – Spain. Since many years I’m a full time cutom knifemaker, allways searching for perfect grind lines, polishings and ergonomics. I do stock removal knives from first class stainless steels as ATS34, RWL34, 440C, Böhler N-690 or carbon steels as D2. I hope you enjoy my knives, as I do making them.   Lifetime Guarantee I offer for my knives a lifetime guarantee. If one of my knives will break using it as a cutting tool, I will replace or fix the knife. Steels D2 is a carbon steel with a high content of chrome (12%),with these 12% of chrome it is much more rust resistant than other traditional carbon steels. D2 is highly wear-resistant. The combination of this wear-resistance, being nearly stainless and a hardeness of over 60HRC makes him a perfect blade steel.     ATS-34 is a high quality stainless steel, used by many knifemakers of the 90’s. ATS-34 is the japanese version (Hitachi) of 154-CM by Crucible, the prefered steel of Bob Loveless. Hardened to about 60 – 61HRC, it permits a very good, long lasting edge and even with this hardness it’s still elastic.   Böhler N690 has 17% of chrome and a high content of molybdaneum. It has added vanadium and cobalt, wich act as a grain refiner and so permit a very fine and long lasting edge, with a very high resistance to stain. Hardness 59 – 60HRC.   RWL34 from the swedish company Damasteel, is a stainless powder metallurgic steel (CPM) with a very fine and homogenic grain and hardness between 60HRC and 61HRC.This steel permits an impressive mirrow polish.   The well known 440C steel was the favorite knifemaker steel in the 80’s. Having 1,04% of carbon, it’s not as resistant to rust as 440A or B, but permits a much finer edge and higher hardness. 440C is more rust resistant than ATS-34 but will not hold the edge as well and is a little more brittle than ATS-34. Hardness 59HRC.  Vasyl Goshovskyy SHOWS   MAGAZINES IBEXHUNTSPAIN THE BEST OF THE BEST   

Spain has the largest variety of big game trophy animals in all of Europe. IBEXHUNTSPAIN hunts in the best private high quality trophy areas, as well as in the Spanish National Game Reserves. Here are all the different wildlife animals which are hunted in Spain. You can get different information about them. Gredos Ibex Gredos Ibex CHARACTERISTICS Male’s horns are big, wrinkled and ringed, they rise vertically and lean out and back in a lyre form with the top inwards.  GEOGRAPHIC RANGE  Central Spanish mountains (Sierra de Gredos). Beceite Ibex  Beceite Ibex CHARACTERISTICS Male’s horns are big, wrinkled and ringed, rise vertically and lean out in a very open way; they have plane form with the tips up.  GEOGRAPHIC RANGE  East Spanish mountains (Puertos de Tortosa-Beceite Natural Park and Maestrazgo) near the sea, where the weather is very mild, although this does not prevent from forming of a rough and rugged landscape where the hunter can fully enjoy the hunt in his pure state. Ronda Ibex RONDA IBEX  CHARACTERISTICS   Ronda male’s horns are shorter, grow straight and their end have a sheep form. GEOGRAPHIC RANGE  South Spanish mountains. The Ronda Ibex is hunted in Antequera, Zona Costera and Sierra de las Pedrizas, in Andalucia province. South East Ibex South East Ibex CHARACTERISTICS Sierra Nevada male’s horns grow long and follow an extraordinary backward curve that reminds a sheep form. GEOGRAPHIC RANGE  South Spanish mountains. The Sierra Nevada (South East) Ibex is hunted in the mountains of Sierra Nevada National Park, in Sierra de Lujar, Sierra de Huetor, Santillan, and Sierra Arana, in Andalucia province. Balear Goat  Balear Goat CHARACTERISTICS  Balear goat also known as Mallorca’s wild goat is internationally recognized as a homologated hunting trophy by the International Safari Club and the local Balearic Government : GOVERN DE LES ILLES BALEARS. Its coat is short and bright, brown-reddish with black stripes on the rear of the body and black legs. Both sexes have horns, but only the horns of the males grow spirally being long and thick.  Horns of the females are parallel and curved.  Only males show a long black beard.  Females with young and males live in separate groups and males approach the female group only during the mating season.  GEOGRAPHIC RANGE  North Mallorca mountains (Sierra Tramuntana y ArtA) and peninsular East mountains.  North mountains of Mallorca (Sierra Tramuntana ) and Peninsula of Formentor.  PYRENEAN CHAMOIS PYRENEAN CHAMOIS CHARACTERISTICS  PYRENEAN CHAMOIS, ISARD (RUPICAPRA PYRENAICA PYRENAICA). Takes the name from the spectacular Pyrenees Mountains between France and Spain and boasts a considerable population.  Their horns, of the shape of a hook, constitute an attractive trophy, being one of the most elusive mountains animals.  GEOGRAPHIC RANGE Its habitat is in the North-East of Spain, in the Pyrenees Mountains   CANTABRIAN  CHAMOIS Cantabrian Chamois CHARACTERISTICS  CANTABRIAN CHAMOIS, REBECO (RUPICAPRA PYRENAICA PARVA).   Its habitat is the Cantabrian Mountain Rage in the North of Spain.  This chamois bears many similarities with its cousin, the Pyrenean chamois, but it is slightly smaller, with morphological differences that are difficult to distinguish at first glance. We have an exclusive hunting area over 25,000 ha. in the Province of Leon GEOGRAPHIC RANGE Its habitat  is the Cantabrian Mountain Rage in the North of Spain Mouflon Sheep  MOUFLON SHEEP CHARACTERISTICSThe Mounflon sheep was introduced in Spain form the Island of Corsica at the end of the 19th century.  This animal has outstanding eyesight, making its hunting very exciting.  The Mouflon likes to live in heads, usually lead by a big ram.  Magnificent Mouflon trophies, capable to make dreams come true of many sheep hunters, can be taken in Spain.  GEOGRAPHIC RANGE Mediterranean Territory and National Parks.  BARBARY SHEEP BARBARY SHEEP CHARACTERISTICS  The Barbary sheep, also known as Aoudad or Arrui, is a horned sheep native from North Africa.  His coat is sandy-brown, darkening with age, with a slightly lighter underbelly and a dark line on the back.  This colour blends perfectly with the rocks of the habitat where it lives. The coat is very thick. Throat, chest and frontal legs have shaggy, long and smooth hair. The horns have a triangular cross section, curved first outwards, then backwards and finally inwards and reach up to 30 inches (76 cm) in length.  The horns are smooth with wrinkles at the base.  Aoudads form herds of adult males an females guided by a dominant male.  Old males and pregnant females are solitary.  Well suited to the mountain desert environment, they are extremely agile, jumping from stone to stone and climbing steep inclines. In the evening they descent to the sparsely vegetated valleys to fee   GEOGRAPHIC RANGE  The Barbary sheep lives in the mountains of Almeria and Murcia, in Eastern Spain. SPANISH FALLOW DEER  SPANISH FALLOW DEER CHARACTERISTICS The common coat colour is brown with white spots on the back and a black tip at the end of the tail.  Winter colour is darker.  There are albino colour fallow deers.  Does and fawns live in herds while males live in smaller groups.  During the rut bucks spread out forming harems and fighting furiously for its control.  Fallow deer are grazing animals and prefer habitat in mixed woodland and open grassland.  Only bucks carry antlers.  These are broad and shovel like, growing in size with age. GEOGRAPHIC RANGE : All national territory in wooded areas. All national territory in wooded areas. SPANISH REED DEER   SPANISH REED DEER CHARACTERISTICS  The Spanish Red deer is one of the largest deer species. In winter its coat is rough and thick of a grey-brown colour and a darker yellowish rump patch. In summer the coat is reddish-brown.  Only stags have a thick neck and carry antlers.  They start to grow in spring and are shed at the end of winter.  Antlers grow huge with a rough surface and in case of the largest stags, the fourth or fifth tip form at the end a basket.  Red deer usually stay in same sex group for the most of the year.  During the rut, mature stags

2G KNIVES – Finest hunting knives, hatchets & sheaths Welcome to the 2G KNIVES WITH IBEXHUNTSPAIN. We are specialized in handmade hunting knives for all types of use, whether for exhibition, hunting or tactical / military purposes,  following the standards of our mentors William Scagel, Robert Loveless and many others, precursors of the new order of forged handmade knives. As disciples, we make our own reading in the creation of this legendary instrument, creating a new style: we call them: The 2G KNIVES Rodrigo Mulero CrespíKnife Maker 2G Knives · Cuchillos artesanales 2G KNIVES has a recent, but intense life. In the year 2004, two good old friends, Rodrigo Mulero Crespí and Pepín Vives, having both logged a long experience in craftmanship, metal work and gunsmithing, decided to fulfill a childhood dream: to make custom knives.  Custom knifemaking is often a late-life vocation, a place where you arrive carried by some magic sharp dwarfs that you keep hiding inside you, until one day, they decide to show up in the shape of a knife.  The name Pepín Vives and Rodrigo Mulero started together in 2004, they choosed the name 2G KNIVES. 2G KNIVES are the initials of “2 Ganivaters”, “2 knifemakers” in catalan. From 2009, Pepín Vives graduatly left his work in 2G KNIVES, until the year 2010, when he did his last works, the famous and renowned Sheridan sheaths. From that moment, the sheaths are made by Bear Holsters. In the year 2011, Ridrigos son started to work in the forge, to follow the steps of his father. That was the case with our inspirer William W. Scagel as well as with Bo Randall, Bob Loveless, and many other people who were not born within a knifemakers environment. One day they heard this hidden voice and they made knives their passion. Without trying to compare ourselves to these Masters with our own craftmanship, we certainly share the same passion. A passion which made them Universal men. This Universal Spirit, which recognizes no frontiers, has reached us and moved our souls into the world of William Scagel. But why this type of knives and not another? Very simple: when we saw a Scagel knife for the first time we knew that these, and not others, were the knives we wanted to make. A real arrow shot. A love story. We sincerely hope to convey all these feelings when you handle one of our knives: the passion with which we make them and the perpetual search of perfection, a long hard path which we stroll day after day. The Knifemaking Process Our blades are handforged from tool steel with a high carbon content. We use the steels O1 and 52100, tool and all-bearing steels. We forge the blades by hand, because we think that this is the best way to improve the steels caracteristics. Our knives have a full tang, 6mm x 14mm and a silver soldered guard from german silver or brass. The solver permits a strong and rugged construction and won’t allow moisture to enter in the handle, as the tang is completely sealed. The handle is composed by discs from aluminium, fibre, exotic hard woods, leather and a riveted stag crown. Befor riveting the tang, the discs are glued with epoxi and compressed (200kg pressure).  

–> While officially launched in 2005, Havalon Knives has a history that runs longer and deeper.   –> Since the 1980s, taxidermists had been buying surgical blades from Havel’s Inc., Havalon’s parent company. The taxidermists liked Havel’s products for skinning and caping because the blade edges lasted longer than other surgical blades. When Patrick Carrothers, Havel’s current president & CEO, was first hired as a Havel’s marketing manager back in 1996, he observed that taxidermists carried their scalpel blades in a toolbox because there was no safe alternative. He also noted that the taxidermists liked Havel’s post mortem style blades because they were stronger and didn’t break as easily as regular surgical blades.    –> After several years of this brewing in Patrick’s mind, it occurred to him—and he remembers the epiphany clearly: “I said to myself: ‘Why doesn’t somebody make a scalpel that folds into itself and locks like a pocket knife? Hey, why don’t we make this pocket scalpel?’” And thus, Havel’s pocket scalpels were born.    –> The Havel’s team soon realized hunters would like this kind of knife for skinning big game. “I had a sense this product could appeal to a very large non-medical audience, so we created a new brand that would not confuse our medical customers. This new brand, Havalon, would offer surgical-edging technology to sporting and industrial markets only,” Patrick says.    Havalonis in the enviable position of being stressed by explosive growth. This, of course, is good stress. The company has added new capacity on the blade manufacturing side to meet customer demand, and the Havalon team has been busy improving the strength of the blades without giving up sharpness. Patrick says, “Most customers don’t realize that is part of the trade-off. Everybody likes our sharpness, but nobody wants a blade to break. But a huge factor in the sharpness of a surgical blade is the thinness of the steel to begin with.”    –> Doctors know not to twist or bend or pry with their surgical blades because that will cause them to break. Hunters, however, are accustomed to prying and twisting in all manner of ways when they’re processing an animal. “So our customers have to learn to let the blades do the work with slitting and slicing motions only. At the same time, we’re trying to learn new ways to make the blades stronger, less likely to break under torque, but without giving up sharpness. That’s the future for us—new steel blends and new tempering methods, so we keep Havalon on the leading edge of quality,” explains Patrick.   Let’s face it: do-it-yourself huntingis hard work. It takes a lot of physical stamina to walk up and down ridges carrying a weapon, while tracking or stalking any size wild game. For still hunting, it takes a lot of patience to sit for hours trying not to be detected by your quarry. Both methods can be very tiring. So when you’ve had a successful hunt, you tend to be tired, cold, and worried about predators as the sun is going down. Add to that, an animal you must field dress and haul back a long way from where you are now. Havalon knives help hunters finish their work faster and easier.   –> DIY hunters like Havalon because one knife and 12 extra blades weigh only three ounces, while giving the hunter enough skinning power for at least four elk or eight deer—with no sharpening needed. That’s the Havalon revolution. Before Havalon, hunters lugged a set of pre-sharpened knives into the field along with sharpening tools, and had to frequently stop and re-sharpen their knives over and over again. The lightweight knives reduce weight in the pack and free the hunter from re-sharpening. Havalon knives also help hunters get home faster with less work, not to mention they are the sharpest knives in the woods.   –> Patrickadds, “That said, we also want to be clear that our knives are skinning and game processing tools. We’re not the only knife you need in the outdoors. But if you have field dressing, skinning, and caping work to do, Havalon is your best choice.”   –> For Skinning and Field DressingChoose Crazy-Sharp Havalon Piranta Knives      Each Knife Includes 12 Additional Blades Lighten your hunting field pack with Havalon skinning knives with the “quik-change” blades. The Piranta series reduces the need to carry extra skinning knives, gut hook blades or whetstones. When the blade gets dull, just pop it off and replace it with a new one. –>No more sharpening! Havalon knives save you valuable time and effort in field dressing and skinning big game or small. Our Piranta may not be the only hunting knife you’ll need, but we guarantee it’ll be your favorite hunting knife for field dressing and skinning your next trophy.   Patrick explains that at the heart of every Havalon product innovation and customer transactionare these four cornerstones: 1. Exceptional quality you can trust 2. Great value for the price paid3. Exciting innovation that meets customer needs 4. Outstanding customer service – always  Patrick adds, “Our goal is to ensure that our customers never regret bringing their business to Havalon.”

 HISTORY Founded in 2005, Sitka Gear was an idea spawned by necessity. Like many stories, this one started out as an epic journey that culminated with a clear vision. After 3000 vertical feet in the dark, with intermittent snow flurries and driving sleet, the morning climb ended behind a gnarled White Bark Pine to get some reprieve from the elements and a little food in the bellies. Cold and wet with sweat from that climb, it was more than obvious that discomfort like this was unnecessary. So, on that September morning, at timberline, surrounded by bugling bulls, the vision that became Sitka was realized.  Drawing on strong backgrounds in the climbing, mountaineering, and general head strong assaults of the backcountry, expertise and experience where focused on bridging that gaps that existed between these endeavorers. Sitka’s driving goal is to not only bridge the technology gaps that existed from a fabric, construction, and product form perspective, but to fully immerse ourselves in driving new technologies and solutions for the modern outdoorsman. Our roots are in the mountains, but our solutions range wide.We could say that we simply make the best high-performance system of hunting clothes on the market, but it’s more than just quality It’s a philosophy: Turning Clothing Into Gear! Hunt Hard!  MISSION  A paradigm shift…to engineer gear that is an extension of the outdoor experience and not simply a barrier between the user and the environment. By utilizing only the most advanced fabrics and construction technologies, Sitka will always design gear that is engineered to work together as complete systems, excelling in performance, function, and protection.Our customers will be able to hunt comfortably in the most diverse and challenging range of hunting conditions. Searching for West launches in 3.5 hours. Ready?  SITKA GEAR IN ACTION WITH COLE KRAMER     “Our tradition in the mountain  is hunting. We manage our game species through hunting. We fund that management through hunting. We are not at all ashamed about the fact that we are hunters.” You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy hunting licenses… and that’s kind of the same thing. “It’s one thing to see it on the news and another to live here in the heart of it.”  Good Hunting …!!!

NORTHERN SHEEP  By: My friend  Alexander Sharif Winter 2012 “A sportsman may have hunted deer, turkey, elk and bears for years with the greatest of success; but until he has taken his sheep, until he has matched his brains, his endurance and his skill with those inhabitants of the rocky peaks, he is still but a sophomore. A big ram head on the wall of his den is the diploma of the graduated big-game hunter” Jack O’Connor My “Anniversary Ram”, taken fair chase on a steep mountain side was 10 ½ years old and had 36” symmetrical full curled broomed horns. To me, he is the world’s greatest trophy.  My cousin once said: “until you have killed a sheep in North America, no one takes you for serious”. Others including Jack O’Connor, the dean of America’s gun writers have eluded to the same in the chapter on desert sheep in “Game In the Desert” (See above quote) There is definitely some truth behind this as for the average Joe, the effort and the cost associated with a sheep hunt usually comes later on in life when all is “somewhat settled”. I grew up in a sheep hunting family with both my dad and uncle taking numerous heads of Urials, Reds, Armenians and Beozar Ibex. As a twelve year old youngster, I took a two-year old young Urial ram but then after, a myriad of “excuses” including attending boarding school abroad followed by higher education, an engineering career that involved international travel and finally starting a family kept me away from sheep hunting until my late 40s. When I finally hit the half-century mark last March, despite being in good physical shape, I made the unanimous decision that it is now or never. Living on the Eastern slopes of the Canadian Rockies, I have chased rocky mountain bighorns (so far to no avail) but have also felt that in time, I will get my hands on one. However, connecting with the beautiful “White Sheep of the North” had always been a dream of mine, influenced of course by the writings of who else but the late Jack O’Connor. From a financial standpoint, the cost of any North-American sheep hunt quickly shoots into the stratosphere when you include all the associated costs that go along with it. Having said that, being flexible to leave on a moment’s notice, a last minute cancellation hunt with huge savings can be had through certain outfitters.   The author in the company of his “Black Mamba” and a beautiful Mountain Caribou. With my contact information left with four Yukon outfitters and the green light issued by my CFO (My dear wife Eneida) , I left the entire month of August 2011 open for a chance at a cancellation hunt. Finally, on the evening before departing for our annual family camping trip, I received a call from Allan Young of “Midnight Sun Outfitters” that a cancellation hunt had become available for mid-August. Arrangements were made and I was now only three weeks away from realizing the hunt of a life time. In preparation for this hunt, besides engaging on my everyday physical activity which includes an average of 200 days on my mountain bike, XC skis, chasing upland/big game and mountain hikes in the nearby Rockies, I started packing 50 lbs of rocks on all the family and solo hikes during the Summer months. You had to see the expression on some Banff tourists when I popped the rocks out of my pack to reach for my sandwich at top of the Sulphur Mountain in July. Finally on August 10th2011, the twin turbo Hawker Sidney carrying me and my gear landed at Dawson airport after some nine hours in the air and on land due to poor visibility. Luckily, I was able to call the charter flight company from Inuit to let them know that I was cruising the skies and that my flight had been delayed due to poor weather. The worst nightmare of my hunt was also about to happen as I stepped out of the Hawker; My luggage including my riffle did not make it to Dawson! All I had on me were my boots, my camera and my binoculars.    With mixed emotions, I hopped on the chartered Islander with three other hunters and a young cook/wrangler from Alaska that was coming to help Allan. Our seventy minute flight to Hart Lake had us meander up and down through low clouds and several ridges but also through some spectacular scenery, finally landing safely on the dirt strip. I kept telling myself that things will somehow work their way out. Upon arrival, I borrowed the essentials including size 36 pants (I wear size 30 and more on that later), a rifle, sleeping bag and even a used toothbrush from Allan and his son Logan. That night I hardly slept, thinking about how I was going to pull it all together without my borrowed gear. The morning after, we stepped in to Allan’s Supercub on floats, headed to sheep camp “LL” where my young/educated guide named Neil whom I was to share my hunt with for the next 10 days was waiting for me. Just before our take off, I spotted a beautiful bull Caribou on the opposite shore of Hart Lake and showed him to Allan. He asked me if I wanted to shoot the bull, but I found it anticlimactic. Then suddenly, I remembered an older gentleman with bad knees who was with us in the Islander the day before and had come from Fresno, CA to look for a bull Caribou. We turned around, informed the guys back at camp about the bull and the hunter went out later that day and killed that big bull. (Good Omen)   Here is a toast to my late Dad & Uncle who taught me how to respect and enjoy what Mother Nature has provided for us in the great outdoors. They are in Ram

 Founder Lex Webernick personally builds each rifle to optimize your hunting and shooting experience. Our’s are the lightest and most accurate sporting rifles available. Custom lightweight rifles – built the right way – one at a time   Titanium Strata  (4 1/2 lbs.) Unique design using the most advanced materials. CalibersMost up to and including 300 WeatherbyWeight4 1/2 lbs. (May vary depending on caliber and options)ActionCustomer supplied Titanium Remington 700, then lightened and blueprintedBoltSpiral fluted, lapped and face truedBarrelMatch grade stainless steel LiljaMuzzlebrakeIncluded stainless Quiet Slimbrake IITrigger GuardBlindBolt ShroudAluminum hexagonMetal FinishMatte stainless (optional Cerakote Finish – $350)StockHand laminated Graphite, pillar glass bedded

FISHING CATFISH IN THE RIVER EBRO – SPAIN | IBEX HUNT SPAIN .COM Contact: Valeriano Belles Tena – Manager of IbexHuntSpain & Transtrophy www.ibexhuntspain.com – info@ibexhuntspain.com – PH.: +34 656.642.575  Here you can fish on the enormous catfish, which is the maximum you can get in the professional fishing or fishing to extreme. Fishing for catfish is done by launch and by fly, from the boat or from the shore. We can guarantee fifteen bites per day of some twenty kilos catfish and in other places – 3 bites per day of a catfish that can have more than forty pounds (18,14 kgr) and measure about two meters. Fishing on cat fish can be mingled with the fishing on other species such as black bass, pike-perch, pike or giant carp. Fishing Catfish | See the pictures below

FISHING ZANDER  IN RIVER EBRO, SPAIN | IBEXHUNTSPAIN.COM Contact: Valeriano Belles Tena – Manager of IbexHuntSpain & Transtrophy www.ibexhuntspain.com – info@ibexhuntspain.com – PH.: +34 656.642.575  The pike-perch is a common and popular game fish in Europe, and also, in Spain.The abundance of the food and the variety of vegetation in the banks and bottom of the river guarantee a wide range of species, which reach an important size, in the reservoirs Mequinenza and Ribarroja (River Ebro, Spain). We think in these circumstances nobody can doubt in the size of pike-perches, in the waters of these two reservoirs. You could never imagine this is the same reservoir. You can find here different colour of water, various types of bottom, different bank width and even vegetation, and all these within the same environment. When we speak about the area between Chiprana and Escatrón, in Mequinenza reservoir, it means about 20 km of river and reservoir with the dense vegetation and nature everywhere with abundant food for the pike-perch or sander, where there is no fishing pressure due to the difficult access. Fishing Pike Perch  | See the pictures below