Eva in Serious Accident, Jim Headed Home
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Editor's note: Jim is headed home from Mongolia after completing the final stage of his hunt and hearing that Eva was involved in a serious ATV accident while reindeer hunting in the Alaskan Aleutian Islands. Eva was a passenger on the Polaris Ranger ATV,
Team Calls Off Altay Argali Hunt
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Terror in the night. Last night after I blogged, we were in our ger around midnight and all of a sudden there was a bunch of yelling outside and we couldn't tell what was going on;
Mongolia Hunt Turns to Disaster
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Disaster on the mountain today. We went up, it was beautiful not a cloud in the sky; we were glassing one spot, two guides went the other direction to another area a half mile away, and then our main guide who I like a lot, hard worker, he went with anoth
Mongolia Adventure Moves to Snowy Mountains
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We made it today all the way from Ulubantaar ... we flew from there to the city of Hove and then that was about a three-hour flight and then we drove for about six more hours to the Altay Argali camp. So we're up here now at about 9,000 feet living in a g
Mare's Milk Starts Good Day in Mongolia
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Two days ago in the morning we got up at 5, we had our fermented mare's milk that we bought the day before. The guys bought two big jugs of it and a little Coke-sized bottle one for me. So you wait for morning, so it's had a chance to ferment all night.
Criss-crossing Mongolia Continues
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Yesterday we got up early and got packed. We had to leave just about everything there because they only allow you about 20 pounds of gear total ... with our cameras and my firearms that just about took it up, so we came with just about nothing to this tow
Forced Day Off in Mongolia
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I can honestly say that there have been very, very few times in my life when I've been on a hunt and the guide\outfitter tells me we are simply not hunting on a given day. But that is the case here. We drove six hours to the hunting area for Mongolian gaz
Mongolia Hunt Filled with Unexpected Challenges
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Standing out in the middle of Outer Mongolia the Gobi Desert. Traveled all day today. In fact, we traveled for about 17 hours. We left this morning at 8, and it's now 1 in the morning. There are no roads, literally just tracks across the desert for the la
Mongolia Adventure Begins ...
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Calling early morning, spent all day yesterday going around to the Buddhist temples it was pretty cool. Went into one that was the biggest Buddah I've ever seen in my life, like 8 feet tall all golden got good video footage went got some antiques found so
Eva Has More Friends Than Moi?
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Really hectic around here, trying to get the last few shows finished and out the door to the Outdoor Channel. Watched the Professionals episode of Todd Bissenden's first guiding job last night, and honestly, it was awesome! The entire team should can be p
HuntFest Fun, Now Back to Hunting!
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At Huntfest, there were thousands of hunters from the Canadian prairies, and everyone seemed to be in a buying mood! Cabela's was the main sponsor of the show, and their booth was packed, they sold tons. It was good, impressive, lineups all over the hall
HuntFest Saskatoon, Then Off to Mongolia
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Really sorry about not posting more blogs recently, it's been a little hectic to say the least. I know it's not a good enough excuse, but it's the best excuse I have at the moment!
We are at our ranch in Saskathcwan right now, about to head to Saskat
Third Trip's the Charm in Peru
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First of all, congratulations to Brock Lesnar, I got the message out here that he won his fight. We tried everything we went everywhere in the one city in norhtern Peru, trying to find a sports bar or something that had a satellite so we mised it, but we
Unlocking Central and South America's Hunting Means Saving Species
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Finally, after two days of delays, we managed to get the hunting license
in the last five minutes of the day. Otherwise we would have been waiting
until the Ministry of Environment for Peru opened on Monday again. Thomas
Saladias has worked so hard on
On a Rooftop in Peru ...
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I'm blogging from the top of the hotel that we're at a rooftop 10 stories up in Lima Peru. By the time we got here Aristo Hotel, real friendly to hunters, 2 in the morning. Today I had to go down to the Ministry of Environment and apply for my hunting lic
Len Leaves Hospital, Jim Leaves for Peru
Posted by Jim Shockey
Len was released from the hospital yesterday. He was going crazy there. He had his own private room, but they moved him into a hallway because two sick people in the next room were fighting, so they separated them and basically kicked Len out into the hal
One-Shot Buffalo and Len Shows Spunk
Posted by Jim Shockey
We hunted all day yesterday, but we never saw any fresh puma tracks or jaguar tracks, all we saw were two male Brocket deer, one a little bit bigger than the one I shot, one smaller. And then we went hunting buffalo all afternoon, but couldn't find a big-
Tiny Canoe Leads to Big Success
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Yesterday I was so tired I couldn't blog cause I had to stay up late and skin out a camen. We got an 8-foot-4 camen yesterday, so it was a great day ... and a collared peccary. So that's really cool. The camen was excellent. We went down a jungle river fo
Close Calls in Paraguay
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First of all a message to Mrs. Gibson down in New Zealand, just want to let you know that your son, Matt, is in love with a Paraguayan gal by the name of Cybil. He's absolutely fine, don't be surprised if he moves to Paraguay ... just joking, about the pa
Jaguars Proving Elusive in Paraguay
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Went out this morning ... didn't find any jaguar tracks, saw a lot of puma tracks, didn't see much this morning actually traveling around, so they went up in the air trying to locate a jaguar that they've got collared; they have to transplant it to anothe
