Among Ancient Ruins: Hunting Spain's Mountain Sheep the Hard Way, with Austin Brown
Backcountry Hunting Podcast
Joseph von Benedikt
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Recorded live in the field—audio-journal style—this episode takes us into Spain's rugged Pyranese Mountains, where our great pal Austin Brown and his buddy Grant Gingerich hunt wily mountain-dwelling roedeer and cagy old mouflon rams. All free range, earned the right way by putting in the hard yards in very steep, rough country. Austin puts his beloved .280 Ackley to work, and Grant carried his 6.5 Creedmoor. Some great insight on the comparative performance of those two rounds coming in a future episode!
From the terrain, to the food, to this ancient historic archetecture, to the outstanding hunting, this trip to Spain was incredible. Ping us on Patreon or through our backcountryhuntingpodcast@gmail.com account, or via the Global Hunting Adventures website and we'll email you info on the outfitters we used.
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| 0:00.0 | right now in the early spring in Spain, there's a lot of green bushes. |
| 0:04.3 | And I was looking into probably... |
| 0:05.2 | Thank you. |
| 0:07.0 | This yesterday morning, you guys were like, look behind the bush. |
| 0:09.8 | And I'm like... |
| 0:10.6 | That was the only great bush. |
| 0:13.0 | You guys remember I'm colorblind, right? |
| 0:17.3 | Ever since a couple years ago, when I had the good fortune to go to Spain, I've thought of it as the land through which the Crusaders made their route to the Holy Land, and it's incredible. |
| 0:30.5 | A place that every serious hunter should have on their bucket list to hunt. Lots of species, vastly different terrain across the country, and wonderful, wonderful people, |
| 0:43.1 | food, history, everything that makes a great international hunting trip, such an adventure. |
| 0:50.9 | In this episode, we're going back. |
| 0:52.7 | We're tagging along on the coat tails of my good |
| 0:55.2 | pal, Austin Brown, as he and a friend go there to hunt roed deer and mouflon, which proved to be a |
| 1:03.3 | surprising species for Austin. And with that short preamble, I'm going to turn it right over and put you |
| 1:10.8 | in the field with Austin and his friend. |
| 1:13.1 | You'll hear the birds chirping in the background as they record on site in the field from Spain. |
| 1:22.0 | All right, folks, here we are in Spain. |
| 1:26.1 | And we have traveled to Barcelona overnighted there and then we're picked up |
| 1:33.9 | by Danny Lockland of trophy hunting Spain and driven up into the Pyrenees. |
| 1:39.9 | And so far we're on our second day, and Grant's had a little success. |
| 1:46.9 | Absolutely. |
| 1:47.5 | Yeah. |
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