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Ruben Velatta (ltaly) hunt-ec'l in Spairr u,ith FernandoSaiz in June ?010 and ltarvest-cd a Creclos ibex. Hc had thisto say about his Itunt:

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99. Marc Hansen (PA) Septeniber . !.100. Glenn Smith (OH) - September l-:l0l. Enrique Fernandez (Philippine: r l;1;,1.-1102. Jose (Pepe) Madrazo (Spain) - Oc:lr:: l-i.103. Mike J. Borel (CA) Noveurber li. ll,\104. Tim Powell (WA) - November I1. llr rt105. Jay Furney (CO) - December 9. lt'tlrl0ó. Joe Sisca Jr. (CT) - Decenber ll. lor rr107. Stan Golub (NJ) - December 13. lOos108. Gary D. Young (WV) - Decentber 16. l(l( rs109. Jeff Meyerl (PA) Decernber 18. l()L)Sll0. Roger Card (MI) - December 20. l00SI I l. Bob Killett (MD) - January 5, 2009ll2. Eduardo Gerlero (Argentina) - Februan l:. 1009l13. Reza Golsorkhi (NY) - April 7,2009ll4. Arnold Jardstrom (CA) - May 2009115. Pete Mowbray (VA) - July 24,2009

louded our backpacks, and rushed off.We set out for the place where the

ihex had been spotted, almost runningbecause we were so late getting intoLotnp. Once we arrived, our lungs andlegs were completely destroyed. It'outd the ibex with my binoculars. He\;os vety beautiful but still too far and,.tut in the open. Juan and I decided torpproach him without the local guidest,ecouse there were too many and theyit ere too noisyfor our líking. We slow-lv crawled on our hands and knees,loser to the ibex. I was able to getrery close, but unfortunately the ibex''rqs not as exceptíonal as the guidesItud thought, so I decided not to shoot.I stood up and the ibex saw me andi'an over the hill. We stcrted down theurolmtain and even though I did not;lroot, we were still happy becaaLse the:Íulk was perfect.

The next nlorning, we clintbed to therop of the mountain and walked allJay long. We saw many ibex but nonevere good enough to shoot. By 7:30!).m. we decided to go down the ntotut-rain. All ot once, we sayv a very beau-ri/ùl ibex standing out against the blues\t. He was about 400 meters awa1,l|om us on a nearby ridge. We wentdownhill slightly and began our(lpproach. We got to within 200 metersund hid behind a rock. I waited untillrc tutted broadside and took a shot,Ititting him perfectly in the shoulder,

ll6. Page Mays (OH) September 10,2009ll7. Thomas Ugral (O\ HLrngary) Septernber 18, 2009118. Walt Maximuck (NJ) - September 2009l19. Paul Gardner (PA) October 8,2009120. Mike Davis (AR) - November 4,200912l. Dow Dollar (AR) - November 4,2009122. Greg Dixon (AR) November 4,2009123. Scott Haswell (IN) - Novernber 18, 2009124. Roger McCosker (NV) November 23,2009125. Bruce Tatarchuk (AL) - Decernber I l, 2009126. Chris Jackson (MO) Septernber 2009127. John Gulius (PA) - Decernber 2009128. Douglas J. Dollhopf (MT) - February 201 0

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but the zninxalstood still, petri-fied. Ibex are vetytough animals andI was using toolight a bullet. Idecided to shootagain and he col-lapsed to theground. I used aBlaser K95 singleshot rifle with aSwarovski 26l2.5-15 x 56Ballistic Turretscope on this hwtt.

Congratula-tions, Ruben! Forour other mem-bers' benefit, wewill mention thatRuben has starteda EuropeanChapter of GSCO.We encourage allof our members inEurope (and evennearby Asia) tocontact Ruben to join up. We have aspecial deal where a person can beboth a European Chapter member andan intemational GSCO member too.This is sirnilar to the SCI chapter pro-gram that has always worked so well.

experience trying to harvest hisKoryak snow sheep in Russia. We'lIlet Pete take it fi'our here:

I booked a Konuk .sttotr slteep huntwith ProfiHunt Ltd. itt Juttttcrn' 2008at the SCI conventiott. Tlte lturtt didnot materialize uutil .lugtt;t )010because of dfficultt' firttlitrs oÍher

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