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H.I.H. Prince Abdorreza shot the world record pasang or bezoar during the rut in the Zagros Range of Iran in 1977. He was glassing a low slope when he found a small herd of pasang. The horns on all mature pasang seem out of proportion to their bodies, but one of the billies in this herd looked as if its horns were almost unreal. There was no way he could stalk the animal without alarming the herd, however. All he could do was leave it and hope to find it later. The next morning, he and his guides returned, but the big billy had moved off during the night. They never found that animal, but they did locate a larger herd of nannies and other males. There were four big pasang in this herd, but the horns on one of them were so long that they made its companions seem like dwarfs. Two hours later, the Prince was certain he had stalked as close to the animals as he possibly could without spooking them, but the Prince’s shikari insisted that they crawl a few yards more. The herd jumped up and began running. Now it was a question of picking that big pasang out of a herd of about thirty running animals with the sun shining in his eyes. The Prince told the shikari to hold his hat up to make shade over his eyes as he tried desperately to pick out the big pasang running toward the end of the plateau and the cliffs below. He picked it up in his scope, followed it as best as he could, and squeezed the trigger. A few seconds later, the herd reached the edge and disappeared. It was about 150 yards away. They ran to where it had disappeared, and below them were cliffs all the way to the bottom. Luckily, the pasang had made it to a spot still not too steep and was lying right where the tall cliffs were about to start. It was not dead. The bullet had hit it a little too far back. The Prince had to take a chance and shoot, hoping that it would die then and there and not fall over the cliff and break its horns. It was only about 50 yards to the pasang. The Prince took careful aim and fired. The pasang died without making a move. It is recorded in Rowland Ward’s Records of Big Game with a length of 59 1/2 inches, a circumference of 8 3/8 inches, and a tip-to-tip measurement of 27 inches.

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