Sporting Rifle

A different kind of quarry

etre by metre, two hunters approach the wetland area at the edge of the pine forest. To get as close to the water as possible, they have to crawl. Mark Longhi Andreasen moves through the knee-high grass, after his hunting guide Sergio Winitzky. Keeping in single-file formation, Sergio has the rifle on his back with the barrel pointing ahead, and his client is right behind him. They proceed until they cannot get closer to the water without being discovered. The guide raises his upper body out of the grass, like a cobra preparing to bite. Now the pair have to find the old male, whose only characteristic separating it from females is a small hump above its nose. They have about 15 animals to pick from, some of which are

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