Roman Doronin

TOP HUNTING BLOGGERS & INFLUENCERS – A Quick Review from a Hunter’s Perspective

If you want to keep your finger on the pulse of the hunting world, the TOP HUNTING BLOGGERS & INFLUENCERS group on United Hunters is one of the best places to start. You can check it out here: https://uh.app/organizations/hunting_blog As someone who spends a lot of time following new trends, gear r...

A Glimpse into the Arctic’s Cycle of Life and Death

In a stark and haunting tableau of the Arctic wilderness, a colossal sperm whale lies motionless atop the pack ice—its massive body already succumbing to decomposition, jaw agape in silent surrender. This is not a scene of violence, but of nature’s quiet, relentless continuity: life feeding on death...

Thousands of Geese Eclipse the Harvest in Finland that is a silent invasion.

Hunters Stand Ready to Help… This autumn, as golden fields across Eastern Finland should have ripened with winter wheat and lush pasture, they instead became feasting grounds for hundreds of thousands of migrating geese. From late September onward, skies darkened with wings—vast, honking skeins of...

Last night, while animals were sleeping beneath rustling golden leaves, winter arrived—softly, silently, and without warning.

Just yesterday evening, we drifted off surrounded by the last echoes of autumn: damp earth, fading amber light, and the distant call of migrating geese. But this morning, we awoke to a transformed world: our village near Moscow lay hushed and luminous beneath its first delicate layer of snow—a prist...

In the Pleistocene, dwarf elephants—Palaeoloxodon falconeri, roamed Mediterranean islands like Cyprus and Malta.

Isolated from mainland ancestors, they shrank to pony size through insular dwarfism. These gentle herbivores vanished around 10–12,000 years ago, likely due to human arrival and climate shifts. Centuries later, ancient Greeks discovered their skulls: massive, with a huge central hole (the nasal ca...

It’s crucial to keep your shooting skills sharp—especially during hunting season—when accuracy, calmness, and quick decision-making can make all the difference.

One of the best ways to train is by turning practice into a friendly competition: set targets, score hits, and add a little stakes (like buying dinner for the loser!). For me, the ideal place to do this is Sporting Club Moscow —Russia’s first private shooting club, with 27 years of experience, top...

Japan has been forced to deploy soldiers to rural Akita Prefecture to confront a surge in deadly bear attacks—12 people have been killed and over 100 injured since April.

While the military response may seem extreme, it’s a direct consequence of long-standing failures in wildlife management and a dramatic decline in the number of active hunters. For decades, Japan’s rural communities relied on local hunters to maintain balance between humans and wildlife. But as vil...

Belarus is placing increasing emphasis on hunting tourism and aims to establish it as a distinct and competitive segment of its national tourism industry.

With abundant wildlife, well-preserved natural habitats, and a strategic location in the heart of Europe, the country is positioning itself as a prime destination for international hunters seeking authentic and professionally organized hunting experiences. According to statements made during a rece...

A new research by the University of Urbino, presented at the European Parliament on 30 September 2025, reveals that hunting, sports shooting, and related sectors contribute €180 billion annually to Europe’s economy—nearly 1% of GDP—and support over 1.12 million jobs across 30 countries, including all EU Member States, Norway, Switzerland, and the UK.

Hunters and sports shooters alone spend €96.3 billion per year (excluding firearms and ammunition), driving demand across manufacturing, rural services, tourism, and conservation. The firearms and ammunition industries also show strong export performance, with a combined trade surplus of over €1.75...

Kutepov’s The Grand Princely, Tsarist and Imperial Hunting in Rus' – A Royal Treasure in My Library.

Few possessions whisper the grandeur of a vanished empire quite like a complete set of Nikolai Kutepov’s monumental work, Bol’shaya Knyazheskaya, Tsarskaya i Imperatorskaya Okhota na Rusi (The Grand Princely, Tsarist and Imperial Hunting in Rus'). To hold these four volumes – published between 1896...

My traditional hunting in Lavniki.

Every year in early October, my friends and I go hunting in Belarus. This year from October 6th to 10th, my friend and trophy hunter Pavel, business partner Dima, my friend—the 2014 Olympic champion Anton Kushnir—and I went on a true man’s hunt at the Lavniki Hunting Estate. Over the course of...

Hundred of Beavers by Mike Cheslik is the best movie I've seen in a while.

Highly recommend it. JEAN KAYAK finds himself stranded in a surreal winter landscape with nothing but his dim wits to guide him. Against a backdrop of ruthless elements and sinister creatures - all played by actors in full-sized mascot costumes – KAYAK develops increasingly complex traps in order t...

Until the lion tells the story, the hunter will always be the hero… UH.app ;)