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Hunting trip in Macedonia with Thomas Nissen

Thomas Nissen joins Jens Kjær Knudsen in Macedonia for a hunting trip, discovering some of Europe’s most beautiful mountains and a large population of Balkan chamois For a second it looks like my travelling companion lets his hand slip over

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Top of the world

Paul Childerley heads to Slovenia for the hunt of a lifetime amid not one but two mountain ranges

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Wild endeavour

Will O’Meara treks to the furthest reaches of the Wicklow Mountains in search of a lone red-sika hybrid

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Time travelling tahr

Most tahr hunters head to New Zealand, where the species was introduced in 1904. Instead, Jens Kjaer Knudsen travels to where the species has always resided: the Himalayan Mountains in Nepal. Thomas Nissen reports…

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The tahr before the storm

Hunting with his son, Daryl Crimp faces a race against time to get into an old tahr bull before the unforgiving weather closes in

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Fog, hills and stags

Will O’Meara delivers another instalment of lessons learned from hunts past – this time from a hill stalk in his native country of Wicklow

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The silent stalk

Daryl Crimp undertakes a 10-day meat hunt with two less-than-talkative companions. But who needs conversation when you have mountain scenery, regular snowfall and distant sika?

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Spotting masterclass

We talk to two hunters who spend hours perusing the sides of slopes to locate their quarry to get their tips on how best to spot wildlife

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Hunting on high

When Jens Kjær Knudsen first went to Turkey to hunt the Anatolian chamois, he didn’t succeed. Thomas Nissen joins him to document the second attempt

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Spotlight on mouflon

Sharp of eye and fleet of foot with a highly sensitised sense of smell, the wild mouflon ram is a worthy animal to pursue.

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