We went out this morning because everybody was done with their buffaloes yesterday. My PH Ronnie Blackbeard and I, he's 67, kissed and made up. I think we found mutual respect ground. Actually, it's very fascinating to listen to his stories. He was the PH for Peter Capstick, for a lot of his movies; he's been there and done that.

The only person that he's ever had hurt during one of his safaris was actually a 14-year-old kid that came along with a guy. They were moving around on an elephant trying to get around it, and a buffalo came from the side, and the kid thought that when Ronnie said to shoot to the client the kid thought he was talking about the elephant. And the kid moved to the side right in the path of the buffalo and no one could shoot because the kid jumped in front of him. The buffalo pounded him and he got 140 stitches in his head. Ronnie had to kick the buffalo in the head as it was grinding the kid into the ground to get it to lift its head so that he could shoot it without killing the kid.

So anyway, that was kind of a cool story.

Hunting-wise we saw five bull elephants, I don't know how many cows, 20 or 30. The biggest bull we saw was 50 pounds on one side and like a 30 on the other side. The next biggest was about a 45-pounder on each side and the other bulls were just smaller. So we had kind of rough day compared to what they had been seeing which was up to as many as 10 50-pounders in a day. But we saw a lot of steenbuck, roan, zebra, giraffe, lion; so it was a good day.

Wer'e headed out tomorrow again, and then next day I have to sit out again because they have to drive Michael Waddell and their team out to catch their planes. I'll report back again soon!

We're in Botswana now hunting again with Global Hunting Resources. We left from Lusaka in Zambia and flew here to Botswana.

We came out here and my PH (professional hunter) I was supposed to have was young guy, Luke Blackbeard of a very famous family, Blackbeard Outfitting, but I found out when I got here that he's not here, the older Blackbeard, Ronnie Blackbeard, will be my PH. He's a very famous famous PH who has been involved in the taking of more than 1,000 elephants. Aaron Neilson is here and shot a huge bull elephant today, the tusks were 53 and 56 pounds.

But I guess there were some problems here with a muzzleloader on a Cape buffalo a few days ago, so when I came in to camp I didn't realize I was walking into this whole big hornet's nest. I said, "Hi I'm Jim," and Ronnie just laced into me that I wasn't supposed to be here and what was I doing here. After about five minutes of that, I went right back at him and told him that he wasn't my first choice as PH either, but we're stuck with each other on a dangerous animal hunt and that this is a heck of a way to start a safari. So we'll see what happens. I think he's just at the end of his rope because of his previous experience with the camera and with the muzzleloader a few days ago.

We'll see what happens, but it's a real, real, real rocky start to this safari, but he is a professional, one of the most famous guides out here in Africa, professional hunters, so I have my fingers crossed that everything is smoothed out. We'll see how it goes. Sometimes in like a lion out like a lamb. Just, I think, he was having a bad day and when he saw another camera show up I think he snapped. We'll see.

The Next Day ...

I think Ronnie's fine. I stayed in camp today and shot my muzzleloader, made sure everything was sighted in properly. Spent a lot of time with Michael Waddell, who is also here. Pretty instinctive young man. Smart guy. Lots of good footage, lots of banter. It's beautiful here. Tomorrow we're going after elephant. They're seeing 10 to 100 bulls a day, so we're going to see some bulls for sure, just looking a for a big one and hoping for a good shot. I think we'll be able to show them that the muzzleloader isn't the problem.

We'll see how it goes!