We left the Sindh province and drove back to Karachi with an armed guard escort. The big trucks are way cool, garish covered in reds and yellow paint and pictures all hand done, mirrors and bangles, and extended roofs over the cabs and hood all decorated with folk designs, all of them were like that thousands of trucks on the highways.
 
We met up with our new guards and a new vehicle, traded and off we went into the province of Baluchistan—the least populated province of Pakistan and a really wild place. The tribal lord there was Prince Butanni, and he lorded over about 5,000 square miles. Very remote and desert with high ranges of flat-topped mesa-type mountains. Really barren of all vegetation but starkly beautiful.

Sindh ibex country ... steep, barren, but in its own way, beautiful.
 
We arrived three hours after leaving Karachi and met Mr. Butanni, a really nice and soft-spoken man. Hard to believe he held the power in such a vast tribal area. His security guards were about as tough a looking bunch as you will ever see, craggy, wind-blown faces, hard men.
 
Mr. Butanni offered to take us out to look for Kennion gazelle, so we jumped at it. He drove the open-to-the-elements Toyota Land Cruiser and bumped and weaved our way looking for gazelle. The first one we saw was beauty, but holy moly was it ever small!! One of the smallest species of gazelle in the world, I'd guess.
 
Long story short, I missed my first shot, and the gazelle was gone, gone, gone!

It was way hot in Pakistan while hunting both the Sindh ibex and Kennion gazelle. And all of us got sick! But we kept hunting and got our animals. I'd definitely go back and hunt there again, as long as the political and terror situation improves. Just since we returned from our trip, it has worsened.
 
We kept hunting and an hour or so later spotted a male and female feeding through a pass. We got out of the truck and made a long stalk, using the hillside as cover. We crested the pass and looked down and honestly when I saw them, I figured they were 200 yards away, but my Leupold rangefinder said 100! I ranged them again and same answer, so I rested the muzzleloader and touched the trigger, dropping the tiny Pakistani gazelle in its tracks.
 
It was a stunningly beautiful animal!
 
By then it was getting near closing time, so we headed back to Mr. Butanni's compound where we ran in to Corey Knowlton and Gregg Bond. Corey set this hunt up for me and is one of the most professional international hunters I know. Greg Bond is a hunter who's taken over 20 species of sheep and 20 species of wild goats, like ibex. World hunter with over 200 species including the great Blanford urial they'd taken that same day.
 
We had our curry rice and chicken and headed off for bed ... sort of ... some of us started getting issues with their stomachs. Chance Cornett was really ill all night. I was OK, but getting worse by the hour. That said, I was up at 5 a.m. to head up the mountain with Corey for his ibex hunt. In the end we did manage to make it to the top of the mountain, although Corey was barfing his insides out the whole way. He was in rough shape. We found ibex, blew the first stalk and had to walk another two miles over the mountain to cut them off. It was incredible, over 200 billy ibex in that one herd!!! I don't think I've ever seen such an impressive sight.
 
We got in front of them, by cutting over the mountain while they cut around the mid part and actually got about a 200-yard shot. Corey used my T/C Endeavor and made a great shot considering his condition, and our hunt was over!
 
It was time to get back to North America.
 
Won't bore you with details, but we had to drive back to Karachi, fly two hours up to Islamabad, wait nine hours, fly back to Karachi, wait nine hours and then fly 15 hours back to NA to Toronto. Wait six hours and then fly another five and then drive two hours!! I was a bag of dirt by the time we got home and have been sick ever since!!!!!!!!!!
 
Great hunt, though, I'd go back. Pakistan is a cool hunting destination and Kaiser Kahn and Corey set up a super adventure on short notice!
 
Off to Ethiopia next!