Hello all.
Where to go for a mid asian Ibex?
I am ok with walking, climbing and spike camps.

Thanks all.

Kyrgyzstan or Kazakstan!

While technically not mid-Asian ibex, they are a close cousin in Mongolia. If I were just going for ibex, I think that's where I'd go...more for the cultural experience than anything. If you are looking for a real monster, then likely Kyrgyzstan.

Thanks for tips.
Not just after a monster ibex, more also to se different terrain then I am used to, cultural and other game in the area.
Peter Andres, you also hunted ibex in Kazakhstan?
Sheephunterab, Mongolia is very interesting, thanks for the tip.

I've hunted them in Kyrgyzstan. The hunt was good and I saw hundreds of ibex, as well as argalis. I have not hunted in Kazakstan for them but I would like to in the future. My main Asian contact conducts hunts there as well Kyrgyz. I saw foxes and both wolf and snow leopard tracks. The culture thing in Kyrgyz is a view into a different work compared to the "west".

Mongolia is most likely next on my mountain hunting agenda. It has the Altai ibex (this type can be hunted in Russia as well) as well as the Gobi variety. Many other species of game there and, of course, the cultural experience there is huge.

Thank you for the information.
The terrain in Kyrgyzstan will be something new to me, also the cultural experience.
Oh, well have to do some more, a lot, reading before I nail it down.

Contact Greg Brownlee who posts here. He is an ibex addict.

918 299 3580

Contact Norwegian outfitter Ansten Østbye. he has something to offer !

Morten

I hunted mid-Asian Ibex (11 in total) in Mongolia & Kyrgyzstan & Kazakhstan & Uzbekistan and would recommend Mongolia Altai for scenery, Kazakhstan Tian Shan for reliability & excellent trophies.

Thank you all for the information.
Acteon, Uzbekistan, how was it there? A country I have not read so much about.

Uzbekistan unfortunately is now closed to hunting - at least for foreigners. In 2000 after a week shooting teal & duck & (truly wild) pheasant I moved to a mountain bordering Tajikistan and hunted an Ibex (38' trophy)and a Siberian roe deer, also spotted a bear and a wolf on same mountain.

Thank you for the information.