Manchurian Wapiti Hunt in Khabarovsk Region

Cervus elaphus xanthopygus

• Hunting season
  
• Hunting
  
• Maintenance staff
• Tour price
• Tour price includes

Hunting Season 

Sept, 10^th - Sept, 25^th (at rut)
Nov, 11^th  - Jan, 15^th  (spot and stalk)
The hunt duration is 5 - 7 days.

Hunting

In September it is a rutting season for the Manchurian Wapiti. The success rate is 100%. We hunt it in high-water bed of Tumnin and Khutu rivers as well as Koppi river in Sovetskaya-Gavan territory. Hunt requires jeep transfers and a hunter should be ready to walk up to 1 mile during the hunt. The hunters are transfered from Khabarovsk by jeep, about 14 hours one way trip. The hunters are accommodated in a base camp, in a hunting house equipped with a stove, beds, electricity, outdoor toilet cabin. The hunters will enjoy delicious food in a kitchen room, the cuisine is based on the hunters tastes.    
A hunter calls wapiti up close, imitating the bull roar. Then the hunter with his guide comes closer to the bull for a shot. The shot distance can be very short: 33 - 164 feet, and in special cases the shot can be made up to 985 feet. After getting a trophy, there is possible to go fishing (taimen, lenok, grayling) with motorboat. Also possible to hunt Amur Brown Bear and Ussuri Moose.

The temperature:
daytime 41/50 F (+5/+10 C), night time 26/32 F (-3/-0 C)   fall time

In winter Manchurian Wapiti is hunted with spot and stalk method. The hunting territory is located within 200 km range outside of Khabarovsk (2.5 – 4 hours drive from the city, and 112 - 155 miles) in Nanai and Lazo Regions. The hunters are transfered from Khabarovsk to the hunting lodge by minibus (8 seats) or jeep. And snowmobiles and sledges are used for the transfer from the hunting lodge to the woods. In the process of the hunt skis can also be used.

The hunters are accommodated in the well-equipped camp.

The temperature:
daytime +5 /-13 F (-15/-25 C), night time -4 /-22 F (-20/-30 C)   winter time

There are two hunters in a group.

Maintenance Staff

• personal hunting guide (one guide per one hunter);
• outfitter/outfitter representative;
• camp-worker, cook.

A hunting guide is responsible for bringing a hunter to the trophy animal within a gunshot range. During the hunt the guide handles all safety-related issues. The guide pretreats the trophy according to the hunter’s taste and takes pictures if requested. A guide stays with a hunter throughout the hunt. All guides are experienced in facilitating the visiting hunters. Most of the guides are professional hunters themselves.

The outfitter/the outfitter representative supervises the hunt, assigns guides to the hunters, schedules the hunt and monitors trophy processing. The outfitter/the outfitter representative provides means of communication. The outfitter/the outfitter representative is responsible for all safety issues related with the hunting tour, he handles the first-aid kit. The outfitter/the outfitter representative can also take responsibility of an interpreter and act as one.

A camp-worker is responsible for keeping the camp territory and living quarters in order, servicing the electric power station and field bath-house, stocking firewood and providing water supply.A cook is responsible for providing the hunters and staff members with three meals a day (including bagged lunches for hunters).

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