Went out this morning ... we got up at 4 a.m. We went out last night after pacas for a subsistence hunt with the local villagers. Legally we can hunt paca, but as sport hunters we are not allowed to hunt at night, but the local villagers down here can hunt at night, that's how they hunt them. Paca is about a 30-pound rodent like a capybara, but they have a spotted hide. We went out til about midnight with the villagers, but they didn't get any. The pacas were around; you could smell them and hear them, but couldn't see them.

So this morning we got up at 4 a.m. went upriver in the dark until we got to the little local village and then pulled in with the boats and then hiked about 25 minutes into the mountains and jungle. They let the dogs lose right at first light. The first stand we took, the dogs came by us about three times closest was about 100 yards, but they were on a jaguar so they pulled the dogs off of him because they didn't want the dogs to get killed. We moved again set up and got onto a brocket deer. The little son of a guns ... it was in a little jungle glade. Grass moving is all I saw. They are tiny little animals. The grass was only knee-deep, and I never even saw the brocket deer, never got a shot.

So then we had to run all the way back to the river because it was headed back to the river. That's how they get away from the dogs; they dive into the river and swim across to the other side. We got down to the river a little too late. I ran the whole way back ... more running than I've done in years.

By that time we were bagged. We came back, had lunch, I went swimming, it was absolutely beautiful. Shot my Alpine bow, shooting 1-inch groups at 20 yards. I can't wait to go after a white-lipped peccary. That will be the one I'll go after with a bow. We also saw a crested guan today which is one of the birds we're after, but I didn't get a shot at it. Having fun, cool hunt. Absolutely beautiful camp on limestone bluffs above the river.

Stay tuned!