Traveled to Peru a couple of days ago and arrived here in an area near Cusco. We're hunting the variety of white-tailed deer that live here, the type of deer that I was trying to hunt when my cameraman Todd Bissenden took that terrible fall months ago. It's still the toughest deer hunt on the planet!

Hunted the first morning near some small farm fields where the farmer had said that he's been seeing some does and two bucks. Well, we never saw a deer. Then we hunted yesterday afternoon and again never saw a single deer while waiting at the edge of a farmfield. We were also glassing a mountain face, nothing, never saw a single one.

Got up at 3 this morning. Came out here, got to the top of a mountain over 14,000 feet, and hunted all this morning hiked all through those hills. I was just exhausted, beat up, and never saw a single deer. So we're having a pretty tough hunt here.

We're probably going to pull the plug on this area and head back up toward Lima tomorrow. But for now we still have the afternoon hunt. They're going to try a deer drive where they're going to push some bush and see what happens. I really don't have a whole bunch of hopes, but you never know.

Talked to Freddie, we only have two hunters left in the Yukon. Two hunters, two guides in two camps. They both got their moose and now are trying to get a grizzly bear or wolf. They decided to stay. Normally at this time of the year when they get their moose, we recommend that they get out of there because winter is coming fast and the rivers and lakes will freeze up. I'm hoping they got out yesterday. I'm always nervous until the last guys get out and all the camps are closed up.

Stay tuned!

I'm standing under the Milky Way in South Africa in the Eastern Cape not too far from the Indian Ocean. We left Botswana yesterday afternoon and drove across the border into Zimbabwe. We drove to Victoria Falls, the falls that David Livingstone, the famous explorer, found. We stayed at a place called The Ultimate Lodge in Victoria Falls. Really fantastic place; had a really enjoyable evening listening to stories and hearing what it's like in Zimbabwe nowadays.

They set up in the morning for us to go to Victoria Falls itself, so Todd and I went there. We caught the sunrise over Victoria Falls, spectacular one of the seven natural wonders of the world. We got good photos, good video, then we went to the market there. All kinds of treasures, some of the best carvings I've ever seen anywhere and for really good prices. I bought a couple of things, of course, old traditional dance costumes old, really cool, then we booted back to catch the airplane to Johannesburg and then from there to Port Elizabeth. I didn't have the right paperwork because we drove across the border, and they were giving me major hassles, but eventually we managed to get through.

We were picked up by the Tam Safari people, set up by Global Hunting Resources. Fantastic outfitters down here. They have several high-fenced ranches, but also many low-fenced as well. I'm going after rhino with my Alpine bow and arrow (arrow tipped with drugged dart so that rhino is not killed). I haven't used a bow in 20 years, so there are all kinds of new-fangled things that I've never seen in my life. So I'm going to practice tomorrow morning, and then we're going to go and try to dart one of these rhinos. They have both black rhinos and white rhinos. In fact, Pam Zaitz from SHE Safari was here a few weeks ago and she darted a rhino. I'm looking forward to this!

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!

Got my Livingstone eland today! We went out looking for elephant, and way ahead of us through the forest we saw these eland. We made about a mile stalk on them and came up 75 yards from them through the trees. I made the shot, a little far forward, so the eland ran a little farther than I wanted. But a beautiful eland, 36 1/2 inches long.

Ronnie and I are getting along good now. He showed me as scar on his back that goes like 12 inches up his back. Four years ago when he was 63 years old, he climbed up on a tree limb looking for elephants. The branch broke, and he wiped out, broke his back. He spent a ton of time in the hospital, thought he wouldn't walk, but they repaired it with metal plates.

His hero was J.A. Hunter who is the exact same guy who turned me in to a hunter. J.A. Hunter wrote the book called "Hunter." He was a professional hunter in Kenya. When I did an interview for Michael Waddell's show, Michael asked me what brings me over to places like this. I said J. A. Hunter, and Ronnie was listening and got all excited and said the same guy was his inspiration as well.

There's a new guy in camp from Houston, Bud, is his name. He will be hunting elephants, and he's originally from Saskatchewan just like I am. Real good guy.

TWO DAYS LATER ...

Elephant stampede today. Didn't see hardly anything, just a few cows and calves from 8 in the morning until 4 in the afternoon. Then we hit some fresh tracks, went in and tracked five big elephant bulls. One was for sure a shooter. For an hour we were working in just trying to get within 30 yards. We had em and looked like we were going to get him. The wind died off and the sun was just about to set, and all of a sudden a little puff circled around and for some reason all five of these big bull elephants came right at us. Unfortunately we didn't get it on camera because we turned to run and then realized there was no time. So we stopped, and then Ronnie started yelling, and they parted like the Seas of Galilee and went around us on each side of us about 15 yards away.

It was really exciting; "intense," as Todd the cameraman said. Also today we saw three dead elephants that have just died from pure overpopulation here. There are too many elephants. The people have protected them here which is great, but now there are 180,000 elephants living in Botswana in 10 percent of the area of the country. Probably carrying capacity is 30,000 to 40,000, so they're dying. There's going to be a crash here, there is no question; that's nature boom and bust. When it happens it's going to be just a terrible travesty. They need to be controlled. You know, conservation is different than preservation. You preserve, preserve, preserve, and all the best intentions go bad because ... I guess they're killing them with kindness. They're going to wipe out the whole herd if a bad case of anthrax comes through here which there is a lot of in this area. They lost a pile of animals in the local park here a few years ago to anthrax, and if that happens with these animals it's going to be trouble. Anyway it was very sad to see these dead elephants. They just died; couldn't survive because of the habitat loss. Anyway that's my tirade for today. Hunting is the cure. "Hunting is the cure," that's my new saying.

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!