In Russian Hunting Magazine – February 2017.

Winter. Hunting. Freedom.

by Aleksei Morozov.

Condensed translation into English by the author.

Allow me, dear reader, to take you on an imaginary Russian hunt as it used to be 200 years ago. No, we shall not go coursing with borzoi dogs like the noble heroes of Tolstoy and Turgenev. We are going to hunt like the people who comprised 80 to 90% of Russians two centuries ago: the serfs.

In Russian Hunting Magazine – March 2017.

At the End of the World.

(goose hunting in the Subarctic)

 by Konstantin Samokhin.

Photo by Rinat Mustafin, Victor Kuzerin

Few things excite a hunter more than the sounds of a goose flock in the sky. In spring you feel the sweet anticipation of hunts to come; in autumn you usually ponder the frailty of existence. Somehow, goose hunting always makes one uncommonly philosophical. “Whither are you going?” – wonders a hunter watching a flock of geese on their way North.

Another story from Russian Hunting Magazine.

A Different Order of Things.

By Mikhail Krechmar.

Published in December 2016 issue, photos by the author.

Condensed translation into English by me. 

 

It’s not very pleasant to sleep over a stream of running water bubbling under the truck. It’s even less pleasant to wake up knowing that you’re going to spend the next few hours toiling knee deep in a mixture of moss and mud, to set the vehicle free. Still, there was no way out of it. You are the only rescue team you’ll get, this is what Siberians learn with their first breath.

In Russian Hunting Magazine – August 2016.

Every issue of the Russian Hunting Magazine contains condensed translations of two selected articles. In the August 2016 issue you’ll read about bird hunting: snipe over spaniels and geese. Click to enlarge the images and enjoy!

In Russian Hunting Magazine July 2016.

Every issue of the Russian Hunting Magazine contains condensed translations of two selected articles. In the July 2016 issue you get to read about hunting wild boar at night and an unexpectedly good first trophy hunt. Enjoy!

Interview with Rich Show, double rifle maker.

July issue of Russian Hunting Magazine printed my interview with Richard Show, a gunsmith and gunmaker from Pensylvania, U.S.A. Rich is known for his double rifles on shotgun actions, and he built 24 DRs on Russian Izh-43 action. I couldn’t fail to ask him his opinion about these guns, double rifle making in general, and what it takes to be a small-scale gunmaker in the US. This is the English text of the interview that I sent Rich for verification, along with some photographs he sent me. Thank you once again, Rich, for all the pains you took to make this interview happen. 

In Russian Hunting Magazine – June 2016

In Russian Hunting Magazine – May 2016.

Every issue of the Russian Hunting Magazine contains two selected articles translated into English. This month’s selection is Andrey Belyaev’s story of the spring duck season in Western Siberia, and another very interesting tale from Alexander Egorov on the value of hunting trips that go all wrong.  Click to enlarge and enjoy.

 

In Russian Hunting Magazine, April 2016.

April in Russia is invariably about black game and capercailzie leks, woodcock mating flights, geese calls and live decoys for duck hunting. Yes, to say the spring season is controversial would be an understatement, but… I’ll get back to this issue, and meanwhile check out two stories from Russian Hunting Magazine in my condensed translation.

In Russian Hunting Magazine – March 2016.

Would you like to spend your vacation hunting with the nomads of Siberian taiga – the Evenk? This is what Nikolai Vlasov did, and told about it to Russian Hunting Magazine. A great story, very dynamic and picturesque, and I’m very concerned whether I could or couldn’t do it justice in the condensed translation – where I had to fit 4000 Russian words into 2000 English ones – but I tried to do my best. Click on the images to make them larger and enjoy!