We drove after we got that brocket deer, got going about 2 p.m. and got into the town about 11 hours later at 1 a.m. Slept for about four hours and got up this morning. From the town we drove for about four hours into the jungle near Campeche. Another beautiful camp. Really heavy forest jungle. There's a creek right beside us with alligators and fish, and we saw a great big turtle. Nice screened-in tents because there are lots of bugs around.

We are now hunting for Yucatan gray-brown brocket deer, white-lipped peccary and the great curassow bird and the oscillated turkey.

When we were hunting earlier today I saw one of the most unbelievable things I've ever seen. Saw a huge tapier ... there were two of them. One was in the water ... about 600-pound animal. We were standing there in shock and another one walked in from the side, walked into the water. These are rare animals, long nose, kind of like a trunk, like a small elephant. We got it all on film, cool-looking animal. Then I caught a two-foot lizard in the jungle. I had to run after it and dive to catch it.

Tomorrow morning we're getting up and spending most of the day for white-lipped peccary which I will hunt with my new Alpine Signature bow. These animals can travel in herds of 60, 70, 80 animals. They've built a machan above the ground for us to sit on and wait for them.

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Got a white-lipped peccary, the footage is just OK ... I had to make a difficult shot through thick jungle ... about a 30-yard shot. This Alpine bow is excellent, and the peccary is a big one, it weighs about 80 pounds I'd guess. I can't imagine too many of these have been taken with a bow and arrow. (Editor's note: The SCI record book lists two entries, one scoring 15 2/16 and the other scoring 15 1/16.)
 
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Good day today. I got two of the curassow's ... a female and a male. Beautiful. The males are pitch black with big yellow ball on top of the beek. I saw two snakes today; one was so fast I saw it chase and catch a frog. And lots of sign of jaguar. Amazing place, really enjoying it. Tough for the brocket deer. No one has seen one yet.  We've got two more days of hunting for brocket deer and then we'll be coming home. This pandemic thing is a little disconcerting because there are no flights are traveling inside Mexico. Hopefully my international flight will get me home.

Tough day today ... we got up at 4 o'clock and did our whole thing ... walked back into the same area as yesterday, sent the dogs in, but nothing, not a peep. We waited there for four hours, Bran and I, waiting in our little shooting lane for a brocket deer to run by in the jungle, but it didn't. The dogs never picked up a scent, nothing.
 
Corey Knowlton went out today, but he didn't go for brocket deer, he went for the great curassow and the crested guan birds. He got both of them, and they are absolutely spectacular. They are beautiful big birds, not as big as a turkey, but like a slender turkey ... beautiful colors.
 
We went back out this evening, but zero, nothing. We saw a bunch of spider monkeys, which was cool. We're eating Corey's birds tonight, can't wait.
 
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Got up at 4 this morning. We heard howler monkeys. I'd never heard them before, amazing, kind of scary.

Nothing happened with the brocket deer hunting. Slow day. We're working hard, but these might be the most challenging of all of the North American animals ...
 
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A lot better luck this morning. The dogs were on a brocket deer most of the time, but I just couldn't ever get in front of them. We got within 200 yards once, but I never did see a deer. But at least two of the guys in the bush saw the brocket deer.
 
Then this evening same thing. We were just out of position. Bad luck. So, we will go after the red brocket deer one last time tomorrow morning, then we're done. This is definitely the hardest animal in North America. I can't say that I've never seen one, though, because in the village there is someone who had one as sort of a pet, but tied up . Beautiful animals, red, red, red, kind of like a big forest duiker. So, tomorrow we're headed to a new area. Greg Bond is here hunting with me, and he hasn't gotten one either, nor has he seen one. The next area we'll be hunting for white-lipped peccary and grey-brown brocket deer.
 
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We're done with this area ... we have a 10-hour drive to our next hunting area and then we are staying in a hotel tonight, so I can get an actual shower and pull the ticks off of me. We had quite a boat ride getting out this morning because we were headed upriver. The same trip that took us 1 hour going downriver took us 2 1/2 hours going back up river because we were loaded pretty heavy.
 
This morning we had one last-ditch attempt. Greg set up in one area, and I set up in another. And I had one of the red brocket deer sneaking by me. It was in the jungle, so here if it's a red brocket you shoot it. Mine was a female. It was fully mature, and I'm proud as heck of it. The guys were thrilled. So, basically in nine man days of hunting, that was the only one we had a crack at that we even saw. Tough hunting. I'm going to keep trying to get a male someday, but you take your chances when they come through the bushes, it's 50-50.
 
On to the next camp!!

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!

I can tell you that we are in the Mexican state of Veracruz. We left two days ago from Vancouver Island, got to Houston, Texas and had dinner with Irvin Barnhart, a former Weatherby Award winner.

We then left early next the next morning and met Corey Knowlton, Greg Bond and Corey's cameraman, Tyler, at the Houston airport. I'm traveling with Bran as my cameraman for this trip. We flew from Houston to the Cuidad de Carmen in southern Mexico not too far from Guatemala. Then we drove most of the day to get to the city of Minatitlan where we stayed overnight.

Then we went through the province of Tobasco, then we left for this area, I don't even know exactly where we are. It was a lot of traveling and we were stopped many, many times. They have military checkpoints all along the road. We also got pulled over three times and the guys went through our luggage to make sure we were OK. I have my Alpine bow here. And the bow and arrow is no problem at all with these Mexican officials.

This first part of the hunt is for red brocket deer. We'll be using dogs. It's thick, thick jungle. We finally got to where we were going to be met by outfitter Alberto de Madrid. He met us and drove us another little ways on gravel roads to the middle of the jungle where we were met by local villagers with their dugout canoes cut out of a single trunk of tree with little outboard motors on them. We drove for an hour downriver on this absolutely stunning river. It's all limestone cliffs around us with spider monkeys and scarlet makaws, jungles and all kinds of crazy birds and fish in the river ... it's absolutely one of the most beautiful places I've ever been.

We got here late in the afternoon, so we didn't have time to hunt, so the guys went out spearfishing. They live on fish here and corn that they grow, and they went diving down so deep, I dove down, and they disappeared from my sight. They speared snook and a type of carp and a fish that looks like a sauger to me. We're eating those for dinner.

I went swimming. That's the first exposure these guys have had to Speedo swimsuits. I don't think they were terribly impressed. It is captured to camera which is totally disgusting. It'll never see the light of our TV show. But I did have a swimming race and beat all comers in the race on the surface of the water, not on the diving.

The villagers are going out hunting pacas tonight, a huge rodent about 30 pounds with spots all over them. We can hunt them, but only legally during daylight. The locals here are hunting them for subsistence, so we will go with them and observe tonight and see what that's all about ...

Climbed a million miles into the mountains here in Ethiopia near our Omo River camp. We finally spotted a male Abysinnian greater kudu at about 200 yards, but it was too small.

Today we also called in three klipspringers, and I shot one of those. This evening we didn't see anything and it was kind of a bad dik-dik day. We only judged 14 dik-dik's today. We saw one that was over 3 inches, and I had my gun capped, but Jason called off the shot, said we can do better. I'm driving Jason nuts. He thinks I'm here for Abysinnian kudu, but I love hunting the dik-dik's.

We're also hunting for tiang and northern Grant's gazelle. This is the only place in the world where you can currently legally hunt the northern Grant's gazelle.

And we saw a millipede today that was about as big around as my thumb  and close to a foot long. Cool!
 
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Started seeing the northern Grant's gazelle early this morning. This is the only place in the world where you can legally hunt them. You used to be able to hunt them in Kenya, and there are hundreds and hundreds of them. We also saw some Beisa oryx. It's rather unusual to see them around here, many of them migrated down to Kenya and there are not as many around here anymore.

We also saw several hundred tiang, but they are spooky, spooky, spooky. We tried over and over again, and the closest we could get was 186 yards and the tiang were running at that point. So, it looks like it's going to be a longer shot on those guys.

But I did get a beautiful Grant's gazelle, about 24-inch long horns, gorgeous animal, one shot, perfect, 130 yards. Kind of got lucky. We were sneaking on tiang and poked our noses around an anthill, and there was this Grant's gazelle. Everything is pretty spooky in these wide open plains. It's really quite pretty here.

Today we also saw a corybuster, the largest bird in Africa, in full display with its tail up over its back and its neck all ruffed out as well. Good all around day. We only saw one lesser kudu female this evening. We're kind of struggling on kudu, but we're in the mountains hunting up in the highlands, down lower we could see more lesser kudu. Everything is going good!
 
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Hot, hot, 98 degrees outside my hut last night. I didn't get much sleep, kept dripping some water from the shower onto me to try to cool off.
 
Not much action today, except the big news that I got a huge dik-dik! His horns measured 3 5/8 inches and 3 1/4 inches long. Tiny animal, with tiny horns, but this one, relatively speaking, is big. We ended up judging a total of 73 dik-dik's ... now the dik-dik hunting is over.

We're going to spike out in the mountains, probably starting tomorrow, so that we are living closer to the kudu, hoping that increases our odds for the Abysinnian greater kudu. Many famous hunters who have spent a lot of time in Africa, say that the Abysinnian greater kudu might be the most challenging animal in all of Africa. But we're going to keep working on it!