Jake Plunks His Bull Moose!
Posted by Jim Shockey
Here's the play-by-play on my moose hunt with Jake Plunk.
First day: We saw three bulls today and 14 cows. The one bull has 11 cows all sequestered away. It's the same bull we tried to get a week ago with Dick McCloud. The bull is a nontypical with dro
New Hunter Arrives, We're Moose Hunting!
Posted by Jim Shockey
We're back out at Tarp City spike camp with my new client Jake Plunk from Dallas, Texas. Jake is 37 years old and a real nice guy. He flew in today on the wheeled Otter. The Otter picked up my first hunter Dick McCloud (who ended up with a moose, caribou
SCI Hunt Buyer Gets His Moose!
Posted by Jim Shockey
We got our moose yesterday (Monday)! It was in the same area as the moose that we spotted on Sunday when my hunter Dick McCloud didn't hunt. Cameraman Todd and I had gone out scouting and found some big bulls, but this one was a different one than the one
Wolf Pack, Grizzly and Moose!
Posted by Jim Shockey
Great day today. We went way up high into the mountains where I thought I'd see some moose, and instead there was a pack of wolves. Dick made a shot 406 yards and drilled the one wolf. So we got a wolf today, beautiful silver gray one. Gorgeous.
Then w
Caribou Down, Bull Moose Raking
Posted by Jim Shockey
We got a caribou yesterday and got it all in to camp today, and it will be picked up by airplane tomorrow. It's going to score around 360; it's really nice, old, the teeth were all worn down. We had a heck of a hike to get him out of there. Three of us al
Yukon Clears, It's Moose Time!
Posted by Jim Shockey
After my wash-out, snow-out, four-day sheep hunt that finally shut down our camera, we took a short break and began preparations for my own moose guiding season.
Right now I'm sitting on top of one of the cabins here on the lake. We flew in today; it
Snow Blind Sheep Hunt
Posted by Jim Shockey
Woke up this morning raining most of the night, most of the morning until about three hours into the morning, so we broke camp, put it all on our backs and headed up the mountain. We made it all the way up to the alpine in sort of the foggy rain. Now we'r
We're Wet on the Sheep Mountain
Posted by Jim Shockey
I'm right now sitting just below the alpine on a mountain range. It took us about five or six hours to get all the way up to here, bushwhacking all the way, no trails. No one has ever hunted here, so it's a 100 percent experiment. It was raining and ugly
Cabela's, SCI and Sheep Hunting!
Posted by Jim Shockey
Just got back from a whirlwind tour of Texas and South Dakota. Was asked to speak at the Houston Safari Club banquet on Aug 13. It was a wonderful event with over 300 people in attendance I was told. I knew I was way out of my league when famed hunter, Ir
Rhino With Alpine Bow!
Posted by Jim Shockey
We got a rhino today! This morning, first thing, we were out there at first light because yesterday we couldn't get out there at first light to see where they went. They go from open areas at first light into brushy areas for the day. Yesterday we couldn'
Alpine Bow is Ready for Rhino!
Posted by Jim Shockey
Went to the lodge last night. We went out in the morning early for rhinos and we saw five different rhinos, and they were running when we got within 1,000 yards of them just from the vehicle. We actually spotted them from the vehicle. Then we never saw an
From Elephants ... to Rhinos, With Bow!
Posted by Jim Shockey
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 famou
We Got Him, First Elephant!
Posted by Jim Shockey
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
Tale of the One-Tusked Elephants
Posted by Jim Shockey
Went out all day today ... we found a big area filled with elephants. We saw 10 different bulls today. Two of them had 55- to 60-pound tusks on one side and both were broken off just beyond the lip on the other side. We got within 50 yards of pretty well
Got an Eland, Elephants Almost Got Us!
Posted by Jim Shockey
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
Elephant Safari is Smoothing Out
Posted by Jim Shockey
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
Bumpy Beginning in Botswana
Posted by Jim Shockey
We're in Botswana now hunting again with Global Hunting Resources. We left from Lusaka in Zambia and flew here to Botswana.
We came out here and my PH (professional hunter) I was supposed to have was young guy, Luke Blackbeard of a very famous family,
One-Day Safari for Tsessebe and Black Lechwe
Posted by Jim Shockey
We flew out to the Bangwulu swamps this morning. Got up at 5 in the morning, got to the airport and got a flight on a little aircraft that took Richard Bell-Cross, Todd and myself about 1 hour and 20 minutes north of here, to near the Congo on a great big
Puku, Roaring Lions, Elephant-Eating Crocs!
Posted by Jim Shockey
Great day; the guys are working on my puku right now. I got a huge side-striped jackal this morning. That's one that I've been trying to get. Saw the same one a few days ago, but didn't get a shot at it. Today I did. The jackal came in, ran out about 100
Hyena and Bushbuck, Fantastic Day!
Posted by Jim Shockey
Fantastic day. Saw some giant crocs, a bunch of hippos, hundreds and hundreds of puku, more than hundreds of impala ... we also saw lots of waterbuck, four big bulls, but nothing big enough for us, lots of duikers, sables, just a great day all the way aro
