Is anyone interested in discussing hunting the Siberian roe deer?

Hello Silkibex
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silkibex
Tell us what you know. I for one, would like to hear about hunting in asia.

I have always wanted to do a Roe deer and wild Boar hunt in Asia.

For those not familiar with Siberian roes - they are huuuge - like EU roe on steroids:



Some of my friends hunted them in Mongolia (300 km north of Ulan Bator) and they said it was a chalenging hunt with long shots in a hurry.

Here are two of them:

I shot a Siberian roe deer while hunting maral (elk) in Mongolia in 1993. Its antlers were a bit longer than the one held by the woman in your bottom photo, but not as wide.

FYI: There are two full species of roe deer in Asia:

1. The European (Capreolus capreolus) roe deer. It is found in the Caucacus Mountains, Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq.

2, The Asian roe deer (Capreolus pygargus), for which the SCI record book has categories for two subspecies. These are:

a. The Siberian roe deer (C.p. pygargus). It is Eurasia's largest roe deer, and widespread across Asia. It also occurs in a small area of European Russia.

b. The Chinese roe deer (C.p. bedfordi), which is found in China, Russia, and Korea.

Bill Quimby

Thanks for the clarification, Bill
Here are 4 Kyrgyz roes. The one on the left is a 5X4

Hunting in Kyrgyzstan is mostly limited to the mountains, especially valleys with mixed open slopes and dense juniper thickets. Roes tend to range from the foothills up to 2000m or so, where the ibex start. However, there are also populations that used to live in the reeds around the rivers--most of these have been killed, though.
The best method we have is to ambush/stalk deer across narrow valleys in the late afternoon.

Those are beautiful roebucks, especially the one on the left of your photo. I've not seen any with such mass.

I at least two dozen roe deer when hunting elk in Mongolia. Problem was, I was there in mid-October and most of the roebucks already had dropped their antlers. I shot the only antlered bucv that I saw. Fortunately, it was a good one. The roe deer were in canyons covered with larch trees, and they'd run ahead of us calling as we climbed the canyons to the hunt the ridges where we found elk.

Are there outfitters who offer hunts for roe deer in Kyrgyzstan?

Bill Quimby

Bill,
They shed in mid-December in Kyrgyzstan. Rut is mid-July to early August.
All operators offer roe as an add-on to ibex and/or argali. I don't know if anyone offers a separate hunt--not that they wouldn't do it, but it's far to go for most people just to take roedeer

I don't know about Bill, but I would hunt them anywhere. They are the number one cult animal on the planet after sheep and goats as far as I am concerned.

One wonderful hunt in Germany in 2006 was enough to make me salvate for them. And of course those wonderful European Roe have biggere cousins to the east, so why not want them more?