We have walked almost four kilometres through the scrub and forest over the ridge and through gorges, as our guide Cacho suddenly stops. He listens for a few seconds as he evaluates several stags roaring around us. Then he makes a sign that we must pick up the speed if the plan he has just calculated is to succeed. Yesterday, Cacho saw a very beautiful and strong stag that he had never encountered before, and his experience tells him that this stag should be shot, if possible, this evening. If we don’t risk the shot, he will disappear into nothingness again.
After seeing it in the valley below us, Cacho leads his Danish client, Mark Longhi Andreasen, down to the deer. They are moving in cover by single bushes and trees found in the terrain. Well in place under a small tree, with a rest for the rifle - partly on a branch and partly on the shooting stick - we can enjoy the stag’s roaring over its females before turning around and sweeping the antlers against the small bushes. He is not positioned well though, and Mark must hold back the shot. Anyway, it looks promising.
This hunt for red stag in the Patagonian part of Argentina took place across 25,000 beautiful hectares