Hi Everybody. !Dear friends we have finished the hunting season of Spanish Ibex 2010-2011. It was great !! and I would like to thank all the international hunters who have joined us and the staff of Ibexhuntspain as well. ….. etc And now we don´t stop .… the hunt goes on …!!!                                                           www.ibexhuntspain.com

IBEXHUNTSPAIN is a professional hunting company established by Valeriano Bellés in 2004. Its exclusive purpose is hunting game trophies throughout Spain. They are located in the mountains of Tortosa Beceite, we are in contact with Ibex “twenty x seven”, it is their life. Valeriano Bellés is a professional hunter and the founder of IbexHunSpain and Transtrophy. His passion for hunting is part of our family tradition and he has dedicated his life to hunting on five continents. His profound knowledge of the terrain has made him one of the best stalking specialists in Spain. Ibexhuntspain has hunting concessions all over the country for the broad range of magnificient game animals available in Spain: 4 subspecies of Spanish Ibex (Tortosa Beceite, Gredos, Southeastern and Ronda), Balear Goat , Barbary Sheep, Mouflon Sheep, Pyrenean and Cantabrian Chamois, Red Deer, Fallow Deer, Wild Boar and Roe Deer. Her organization is ready to arrange “Driven Partridge” hunts and “Walking Partridge” hunts with dogs, both typical and authentic Partridge hunting modalities in Spain, an outstanding country for its climate, game species, its people and gastronomy, rich in beautiful landscapes which will make your hunt an unforgettable experience. Fishing in Spain is also available. They have around 45.000 hectares of self-management areas in Tortosa-Beceite and Maestrazgo . IBEXHUNTSPAIN offers the possibility to make the Grand Slam of Spanish Ibex in the same trip. I know that personally Valeriano Bellés has served International hunters for more than 15 years. All the hunting expeditions are managed and organized by him and a professional team, very qualified people with a lot of experience in hunting in Spain and around the world. They have a very competent group of employees who will help us to make your hunting a great success. It is the only hunting company in Spain which has an export service TRANSTROPHY . They prepare all the necessary and right documentation and certificates to send the hunted trophies to the place of your preference. They are a very serious and professional company. If you think about travelling to Spain to get here the new hunting experience, do not hesitate to contact them. They will be very pleased to show you their way of hunting, their competence and professionalism. Ibexhuntspain is a member of and supports several hunting organizations including Wild Sheep Foundation ,Safari Club International and Grand Slam Club Ovis, promoting wildlife conservation, and hunter education. Come, let us transform your visit to Spain into an unforgettable adventure Wild Sheep Foundation

Southeastern Spanish Ibex Etter en vellykket og fantastisk jakt hos Valeriano/Ibex Hunt Spain i November 2009, må jeg si det ga mersmak. November 2010 var jeg på plass igjen. Denne gang på jakt etter Southeastern Ibex. Flyet gikk til Valencia hvor jeg ble motatt av Valeriano. Ca 1,5 times kjøring kommer vi frem til en liten fjell landsby ved navnet Millares. Det er her vi skal bo de neste dagene og hvor jakt terrenget med de spektakulere fjellene er rett på utsiden. ” Her kan jeg spotte Ibex fra soverommet “. Terrenget Lange avstander En flott Ibex i sikte Ibexen på bildet over er en av mange vi så. Men dette var helt klart den største og den vi skulle jakte på. Jakten på Ibexen var utrolig spennende og varte i 7 timer. Flott jakt og minne for livet. Trofe i toppklasse og Gull med god margin 🙂 Super fornøyd. Mektig Fikk skutt ibexen første jakt dagen. Heldig så hadde Jeg også lisens på en Muflon. Dette er ett dyr jeg syns er utrolig flott og som jeg har ønsket å jakte på lenge. Endelig er det snart min tur for å pøve meg på denne arten. Ser bare frem til nest dag. Terrenget hvor vi jaktet Muflon Ut av en flokk på 4 dyr var det denne som viste seg å være trofeet jeg skulle ha. Topp jakt med ett perfekt resultat. Denne skal helt klart fullmonteres 🙂 Nok en gang hadde turen til spania og Valeriano/Ibex Hunt Spain vært en stor og hyggelig opplevelse som vil følge meg resten av livet. Stor takk til Valeriano og hans team. Jeg kommer garantert tilbake. For mere info om turen : Kontakt Atle / http://www.rzm.no/ TAKK

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Ibex hunting. Trygve ringte meg en dag. skal du bli med å jakte på Ibex spurte han? ja sa jeg, uten egentlig å ha tenkt meg om. dagen kom og vi dro fulle av forventning. landet i Valensia etter en mellomlanding i paris. Anbefaler å reise til Madrid da kan dere fly direkte. men nokk om det. Ble hentet på flyplassen av en sjåfør som kjørte oss opp i fjellene hvor, vi skulle jakte. der ble vi møtt av Valeriano the boss 🙂 huntingguide vi ble inlosjert i jaktkampen, et stort hus med alle de tenklige bekvemligheter du kan drømme om. og foret etter alle kunstens regler meget god mat og vin. Jakten: vi er Valeriano, Wiktor og meg vi startet med å oppservere 3 stk ibex hvor en var skytbar. og så var det i gang. Det første var å klatre opover i fjellsiden for å vinne høyde på dyra. vi måtte helt opp på fjellryggen for å kunne bruke den som dekning når vi beveget oss mot dyra, eller rettere sakt hang etter. det ble en 3 timers fantastisk smygjakt, hvor vi var nære på et par ganger men hvor de kom seg unna. vi så dem om trent hele tiden under disse tre timene, men skyteavstanden var for stor. 3-400 meter. etter 2,5t så la de seg ned for å hvile. vi benyttet da muligheten til å komme innpå ved å gå rundt de for så å smyge inn fra en annen side. vi kom da inn på ca 230m. da hadde vi en dal i mellom oss. og dyrene lå fremdeles. her ble vi liggende å vente på skuddsjangsen til de reiste seg. en halv time på magen med en stor ibex i kikkerten er en påkjening, det bør prøves. Det å ligge der i et landskap som ikke kan samenlinges med det vi er vant til i norge, annet en at det er bratt til tider. en utrolig følelse.bare det å kjene lukten av rosmarin og lavendel. samtidig som du er i en ekstrem jaktopplevelse. ja det tar tid å fordøye dette.

Et fantastisk landskap Som dere ser. to bilder av samme karen Annkom Spania og jaktcampen til Valeriano i høst med en klar intensjon 🙂 her skulle det jaktes Ibex. det ble en fantastisk opplevelse. faktisk den fineste jaktopplevelsen jeg har hatt. ikke bare på grunn av jakten, men alt rundt jakten også. først må jeg si noen ord om opplegget: et vellorganisert team som vet hvordan de tar vare på kunden/jegeren. alt er bare så utrolig proft. maten er også et kappitel for seg. fantastisk mat, hele tiden. det ble servert ut i fra det lokale kjøkken, og bare det i seg selv er verdt reisen. innkavrteringen er også fantastisk bra, med et stort soverom med eget bad osv. rent og pent. så over til jakten. vi startet dagen med å hilse på den karen på bildet. (Vi er Valeriano, wiktor og meg.) Den var i følge med en del hodyr pluss et par mindre bukker. disse forsvant innover og oppover i en fjellside, og jeg ante at her blir det klatring. Og som tenkt. vi startet med en halv times klatring for å nå toppen av den fjellryggen vi skulle jakte etter den oppserverte bukken. vel fremme der oppe, fikk vi øye på denne flokken ca 15 dyr og ca 400 meter lengre inn i fjellet, og litt lavere en oss. herifra og ut er det bare et eventyr av en smygjakt. vi var innpå flere ganger. men jakt er jakt og det var små detaljer som gjorde at jeg ikke fikk skutt. og som faktisk gjorde at jakten ble så fin som den ble. den roen og det avslappende lynne til Val og wiktor gjorde dette til en perfekt dag. her var det null stress. disse dyrene var tydlig urolige, med god grunn 🙂 men generelt, de stod aldrig stille. de var i bevegelse hele tiden. under veis i jakten så støtte vi på små grupper av hunndyr. da var det bare å stoppe opp og vente litt til alt roet seg ned igjen, for så å fortsette smygingen. Etter ca 3 timer med smyging så oppserverte vi at dyrene lakt seg ned for å ta en siesta 🙂 dette utnyttet vi ved å gå en halvbue rundt de for så å komme inn på skyteavstand. når vi så hadde kommet i posisjon oppe på motstående rygg i terenget, var avstanden ca 230m frem til den ibexen som jeg sitter ved. Valeriano hadde jo avstandsmåler i lommen, og den ble da brukt for å gi meg den infoen jeg trengte. nå var det bare å vente til bukken reiste seg, for siste gang 🙂 det å ligge der med en stor ibex i kikkertsikte å vente på at den skal reise, seg så du kan sette et forsvarlig skudd. samtidig som at du ser utover et fantastisk landskap med en noe uvant flora. Her lå jeg faktisk oppe i urtehaven. det var rosmarin og lavendel overalt. jo det var utrolig bra. og det var en tolmodighetsprøve. bukken reiste seg og jeg var på den med krysset i kikkerten med det samme. men den småtrippet i en liten halvbue oppe på den ryggen de hadde ligget. og skyte på et lite mål på den avstand i bevegelse er uaktuelt. jeg hører Val plystre svakt, jess….. bukken stoppet opp og, så opp mot oss,. Wiktor begynte med sk…. skuddet kom før han fikk gjort seg ferdig med stavelsen. og bukken falt om på stedet. den følelsen som du får, akurat i det du har fullført jakten, med et perfekt skudd. Ja det er noe som må oppleves. Verden står helt stille en stund da. Dette er en fantastisk jakt som kan annbefales på det høyeste. disse gutta kan jobben sin og de er fantastisk hyggelige karer. To Valeriano and the team. Thanks again fore a wery good hunting, and fore your good hosbutaliti, food and vine. 4 days at your place, is a good memory fore a lifetime. Henning Larsen Norway

Once again I meet with my friend Valeriano, I was hunting with for a big ibex in Tortosa Beceite last year. We go to a hunting area Ibexhuntspain has in the east of the country, which is known to be inhabited by a big number of Barbary sheep. We arrive almost at night and we stay in one hunting house in the same hunting area. By the way it’s really beautiful and luxury building with huge trophies decorating the walls. The cooks are already waiting for us with a delicious supper prepared, during which we talk and drink a good Spanish wine. The next morning we have to get up early. We load the pick-up with everything necessary for the whole day of hunting and we leave almost at daybreak as Valeriano wants to check one area, where different groups of animals have a habit to come to eat almost at night. Thus we could catch them unaware from the high of the slope. After having made few miles among the wood of Mediterranean pines we start to walk up a small mountain. We lean out in silence from one side of the ravine. Soon despite a little light we can distinguish a movement of the animals among the trees. And indeed in a moment we see a group of sheep. They are very quite and we can locate a big male in the middle. Valeriano concentrates on it and observes it through a telescope. In a short time he comments it’s a good specimen and I can hunt it, but to approach we need to come down few yards without making any noise as at this time of the day the animals are very alert and it’s easy to fail to come closer unnoticed. We come down the groove of rocks and what a bad luck, some of the stones dislodge and make enough noise. The herd of sheep group together with big male in the middle. Now it’s impossible to shoot any of them. In little time they get more nervous and run away among the pines. We come back to a car to change the area to one more mountainous. We charge the backpacks on our backs and we start to walk searching a new group of animals. All the time the way goes up and up. Finally we are high up on the mountainside, from where we have an amazing sight of the magnificent landscape. I can make out an extensive forest, which riches the edge of a small river. Valeriano and the guide observe the mountains in the north and in few minutes they notice a group of Barbary sheep. Once again I’m full with hope and for a moment I forget about how exhaustive am I. After one hour of walking we lean out of a big cliff. The animals are some 170 yards away. I prepare to aim, but I don’t see the animal Valeriano and the guide indicate me. The group of the sheep hears us talking and they start to move, in a few seconds we loose them among the pines and rocks. We have failed again. These animals are very elusive. We continue walking among a spectacular landscape. I feel myself a little bit dishearten, but Valeriano assures me that soon we will find a good herd and right now it might be a good idea to get our strength back having a short meal, resting a little and than continuing to hunt. So we do it this way and once again I find myself walking. Finally my preys are listened as we locate another group big enough. It is in the other side of the forest situated below our feet. We move silently and we find a good position so the animals can’t see us nor hear neither smell. We are 218 yards away and I have a good support for the gun. I’ve put two backpacks between the rocks, in this way I’m quite comfortable and I feel sure. Valeriano locates a chief of a herd. He gives me indications to recognize the animal. This time I detect it straightway. It’s a magnificent male with big horns. It seems to be hidden among the females, but as it moves slowly finally I can see its full body. Its hair in the chest reaches the ground. It’s spectacular. I follow it with a cross of sight reflected in its body. I’ve already told Valeriano I will shoot but I continue waiting to get a better position of the animal and to relax to do not fail a shot. The silence is disturbed by a deafening noise and a moment of waiting is over. I see how it fails down suddenly on a ground meanwhile the rest of a herd runs away. Valeriano screams from joy and shakes my hand. It’s so sensational. We cross the ravine and we approach to the shot zone where we can see a magnitude and a beauty of this great Barbary sheep. It has big horns, very thick ones and its hair is very long. We make a photo and video session. The occasion is really worth it. So once again I want to point out a big professionalism of Ibexhuntspain and a great work of its manager Valeriano Belles and his team. Johannes Stefansson

Pyrenean chamois hunting. The high mountains, from the point of view of a hunter, a nature’s lover like me, are so grandiose, especially when it is about the Pyrenean chamois (really magnificent animal) hunting, which in this case I consider like a unique experience. After I have had hunted two magnificent ibexes in Sierra de Gredos; we have hired for that a hunting company Ibexhuntspain, we set out towards the Pyrenees with an illusion to hunt two chamois. The manager Valeriano Belles was waiting for us in the village to guide us in the last stretch till the hotel where we had to be accommodated. As soon as we came we went to eat and to prepare for the first contact at dusk with this immense place and its small inhabitants with horns. First we had to wait for the local government’s forest keeper to check our licences and just after we set out in two cars towards a prey, situated at the end of a road. From there we have started the first groups of chamois in the both sides of the road, although the animals were still too far. We’ve decided to split up into two groups. Steve and Valeriano had to go to the mountains situated in the west and me and Fernando, a guide of Ibexhuntspain, we took a way to the mountainside in the east. Each one of us took its backpack and wished the rest to have a good luck. To tell the truth I was feeling very calm. We started to climb a steep slope full of crumbly rocks and slippery grass. Each step was an exhausting effort and together with a height and as a consequence lack of oxygen it was becoming a real torture for a body out of shape. At last we stopped and we lied down on a ground. About lying down it’s just a manner of speaking as we were in the same vertical position as a picture hanging on a wall due to a slope of a land. During quite a lot of time we were observing a terrain through the binoculars till we have started to feel the pain in the neck as a position we were in was very uncomfortable. After more or less one hour we have heard two shots in the far followed almost one by one. A good male has risen above us, but Fernando told me it was too far to shoot at it. A noise like the one of a distant shot makes an animal to move little by little towards a peak of a mountain. Later on we have found out that it was Steve, who was shooting at the animal, but it was too far away and he missed the first shot, as a consequence the animal raced away and it complicated a lot a second shot. Fernando explained me that we have to go up along a rock crest and maybe we will be able to shoot the same male and in case it’s not possible we still can look at the other slope. Since the animals didn’t pass through where we were now, they should be there. Indeed, after a short but steep ascent Fernando leant out of a ledge and gave me a sign to come closer, as there were the animals eating peacefully. In this moment my heart started to dance to the different rhythms as I was approaching. So in the same instant to lean out with a gun in one hand my heart has left behind a waltz to pass to an uncontrolled rock&roll. I took a deep breath and I put in order my thoughts trying to control a situation. Fernando was on my left, he indicated me one chamois of a light colour eating under one rock, above it there was another darker one. I could understand what he was trying to tell me and when the moment came I’ve put a gun on a backpack I have left on the rocks. I look at a marvellous Pyrenean chamois; I was feeling that a sight was moving a little as I was nervous at this exciting moment. Without any hurry but also without making any pause I decided to lean out a little bit more so I could have a perfect position to shoot. I focused the animal; I was breathing and caressing a trigger. The bullet has come out and I knew in advance I did it I hit it. Almost immediately I saw how the beautiful male has fallen down. I was a leading actor in my own movie; I lifted a gun, pulled the bolt back and I said: “that’s all”. At once Fernando congratulated me with killing a good Pyrenean chamois male. I thanked him and we gave each other a strong hug. We were going down through the rocks, ravines and cliffs towards the animal. We picked it up and brought it down to snowdrift. There for a moment we were discussing this great event. We had to continue with our work. At first we took some pictures to memorize this great moment and we carried on with a butcher work taking off the skin and cutting some meat for a splendid stew, as this meat is very valued by local people. The night caught us in the mountains. That complicated the descent through the huge tracks full of stones. I was going down slipping and trying to brake with a help of a long stick Fernando gave me. We took a shorter cut to come to a car, which was left in the prey in one side of a road a little bit more down. In a moment we met head on with Valeriano and Steve. They were coming to search for us and to find out how did it go, as they have heard a shot. They saw the chamois and were congratulating me making good comments. During the supper we had

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