We did it! We got our elephant today in Botswana. The shot was 22 yards, side-on brain shot. He went right down. He was with six bulls. We actually hit the tracks first thing this morning early, like about an hour after light, and we trailed them for five miles. We caught up to the three bulls making the tracks, one had a distinctive line across his foot that you could see in the track, and one of them looked pretty good at a distance, but we could never get a really great look at them. Then they joined up with three more, so now we had six of them all around and they stood in wide open stuff, maybe chest high or head high stuff for us. Fairly open, few scattered big trees out in the plains.

We hung around them for probably two hours outside their range of where they could smell us or hear us or see us. Ronnie my guide did excellent today. He was patient, and we made sure it happened patiently and waited until the time was right. This bull Ronnie figured was 70 (pounds) on his good side and broken a third off on his other side and he said that would still go over 50.

So we waited until he moved out to one side. Still, one of the other bulls we had to go within 15 yards of off to our left and we sneaked in behind a tree at 22 yards, it was fantastic footage.

He's not as heavy as what we thought because he has 16-inch circumferences at the lip, but a beautiful bull. We're ecstatic!

Now we're off to the Eastern Cape of South Africa to hunt with Tam Safaris where I'm going to try to dart a rhino with my Alpine bow! The other fellow in camp here, Jeff, from Fort Worth, Texas took his bull elephant yesterday. He's here with his daughter, Cameron. She's now hunting for buffalo. Great people.

I'll give you an update on the rhino hunt soon!