Beceite ibex in Spain

[Dsturgisjr]

Recently I traveled to Spain with a couple buddies and our wives.
   

 We left the girls in Barcelona in a luxury hotel on the beach and we traveled to inland mountains to bowhunt for the Beceite ibex with the folks from Salvaforcaza. We booked the hunt through Bowhunting Safari Consultants (a sponsor here)and it was first class all the way.


We stayed in an old house located above the village of Vallibona.
     
     
Many of these villages were home to thousands but now very few live in some of them. Another village I hunted near was home to over 1000 but now the population is 4.

[BMN]

Wow. This one is going to be cool for sure.        

[Ragin Bull]

Oh Denny,    

This will be good!

[KentuckyTJ]

Oh man, this is going to be fantastic successful or not. Can you imagine hitting the 10 ring on one of those things?

[Dsturgisjr]

The country was remote, scenic and rugged.
   
Many of the hillsides had terraces built into them. Some of these walls and ruins dated back to Roman times; a lot of history on the ground we covered.
   
   
Several times these walls were helpful when stalking in on the elusive and wary animals.

[Sockrsblur]

Wow very cool trip!

[njloco]

[Dsturgisjr]

We hunted hard every morning and evening. I finally got a 25 yard shot after numerous stalks on the third morning of our hunt. A melt-down in my head/form resulted in a ricochet shot off both horns with two of the guides watching.

On the final evening of our hunt I crawled into shooting range of a decent buck/billy and hit low through the chest and off leg. They have very good trailing dogs and Miguel released his dog Txusca on the trail. She bayed the buck in a steep canyon and I was able to sneak in and put in a finishing shot. Very exciting!
   
   

[bohuntr]

Congratulations Denny!  Very cool hunt and very nice ibex!!!  

[Dsturgisjr]

Randy Cooling of Dexter, MI is one of my favorite hunting buddies. He was on the trip and hadn't connected yet. On the morning we were returning to town he went out for a quick hunt and was able to stalk in and make a perfect shot for a grand ending to our hunt.
   

our other hunting bud uses a compound and he took two ibex, so everyone was successful and this hunt ranks among my all time favorites.
   
Our group with the guides shortly before driving back to Barcelona.
   

[A.S.]

[CDR]

[Jorge]

Good to see you enjoy in my country. The trailing dogs of Salvafor guides are amazings.

 One ibex with a tras bow is an incredible trophy!!

[huntingarcher]

Wow that had to be a great adventure,nice pics and congrats on your very cool hunt.

[lt-m-grow]

That is VERY cool.  Thanks for sharing.  That country looks amazing to hunt in - sorta like -  hunt in a ghost town.

[huntingarcher]

Jorge,you have a beautiful country and those Ibex are really neat animals for sure.

[Rob W.]

Very cool.  

[LoweBow]

That's just awesome!!!  Beautiful country...Jealous!

[Bowwild]

That trio is the most exotic bowhunting picture I think I've ever seen!

Wow!

Thanks for sharing.

[rastaman]

Absolutely awesome country and animals! Thanks for sharing sir!