Buffalo Hunting and Jaguar Tracking in Paraguay
Posted by Jim Shockey
Today was a great day for the hunting. Chance Cornett from Texas, I hunted with him in Pakistan, he's here. He shot a river buffalo from Asia. They're Asian water buffalo, but they're Asian river buffalo, way bigger than any buffalo I've ever seen. Huge b
First Licensed Foreign Hunter in Paraguay
Posted by Jim Shockey
I'm standing in the middle of nowhere in the middle of nowhere, as usual. If you look at a map of South America, just go to the very middle part, just below the Brazil border, where there are no roads and no nothing, that's where I am in Paraguay. Amazing
Eva and Brackett Tag Big BC Bears
Posted by Jim Shockey
Excellent day yesterday. Weather was absolutely horrible, though, windy, rainy, yucky everybody saw a few bears, but we got lucky. Eva got a beautiful big bear, 18 and 11 (sixteenths) in the skull, 60-yard wide open and perfect shot with T/C muzzleloader.
Shawn Michaels Scores with Muzzleoader and Bow
Posted by Jim Shockey
Great day again today. Weather was kind of iffy; a little cool and a little drizzly, but we got all the way out to where we were going to hunt. We saw four bears on the way out there, but not bears you'd go after. So the first bear we saw in the area we w
Shockey Family Bear Hunt
Posted by Jim Shockey
Just saw two bears one second ago on our way back to camp ... had a great day today. Took Len and Hal out and Eva. We saw 10 different bears. Len got a beautiful boar. Eva didn't shoot one, she could have shot one, but it actually climbed a tree. And we d
Cannon Safe and Horton Crossbow Sponsors Score!
Posted by Jim Shockey
Fantastic day today! Went out with Mike Baker of Cannon Safe; the temperature finally got over 50 F. Suddenly we started seeing bears everywhere. Lots of bears. We had one this morning that we walked in on.
Yesterday we tried to walk and never saw anythi
Sick as a Dog, Then Loaded for Bear!
Posted by Jim Shockey
Sorry I haven't been blogging for the last few days. I was three days getting back from Russia and picked up some kind of a crazy Russian bug and then spent 36 hours on a couch at home just trying to survive. It passed, so I headed up to my camp a day lat
The Journey Home Begins ...
Posted by Jim Shockey
Woke up this morning, snowing ugly weather, low fog. We waited as long as we could then we headed up; plus we were out of gas ... they only had enough just to get out to that spot where the big bear was. We got out there and sat for six hours watching the
With 2 Russian Bears Down, Decision Time
Posted by Jim Shockey
Calling from inside my tent today. Kelly Grahmann from Texas, he only wanted one bear and he came in yesterday with a monster, a giant ancient old bear, teeth worn right down to the gums had to be at least 20 years old. Magnificent huge bear. Kind of a
Brown Bears Everywhere in Russia
Posted by Jim Shockey
I'm actually standing in the middle of nowhere in the middle of nowhere a zillion miles from civilization on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the back end of the most incredible winter wonderland hanging valley I've ever seen. Beautiful low-brush juniper patc
First Russian Bear Meets .338 Win. Mag.
Posted by Jim Shockey
We stayed in until 11 a.m. this morning because of the fog. We were just sort of hanging around grumbling away and then suddenly it lifted just like magic. Incredible blue skies, you could see forever. These bears seem to travel the high ridges. We saw
Russian Brown Bear Hunt Begins
Posted by Jim Shockey
We got in on the helicopter day before yesterday. Big huge giant helicopter. Monster Russian Mi8 helicopter. Flew across snow and basically just trees and mountains for an hour and 45 minutes til we got to our camp.
There's a ton of snow, like four feet
Around the World for Russian Bears
Posted by Jim Shockey
I'm in Moscow waiting to catch an airplane to the east side of Russia. I'm going to have to go almost all the way around the world, right back to almost the West Coast of North America. It'll only be about four time zones different from where we are in Br
Ethiopian Safari Fizzles to an End
Posted by Jim Shockey
Tough, tough, tough day. We got up early early, went into our blind, waited until it got light, and then we realized that the leopard had not come back to that bait during the night, which is only the second time ever that's happened to Jason.
So we race
Left-footed Safari Stays Dead
Posted by Jim Shockey
Long, slow day today. We got up early in the dark as usual, did our walk down to our blind, sat there. One little bushbuck came out and that was it. Checked the Stealth Cam pictures. The giant forest hogs had come back in the night, so we got good picture
Leopard Baits Remain Untouched
Posted by Jim Shockey
We got the warthog hung up today, so now we have seven baits out there; hard to say why the baits aren't hit. Jason is really, really surprised. This is the highest density of leopards anywhere in Africa apparently. So we're just waiting patiently. Sittin
Leopards Reluctant to Take the Bait
Posted by Jim Shockey
First off, about the blog, I apologize for missing a couple of days. That's how it works with this blog when I'm hunting in remote places and trying to call this information in on my satellite phone. Sometimes the satellite reception is bad and I can't ge
The World's Biggest Wild Boar
Posted by Jim Shockey
We went and sat this morning on the spot where I hit that mountain nyala yesterday, nothing came out, of course, so we walked all the way out two hours hard, hard, hard walking got back to camp. Took a few hours off for naps and went out hunting and I got
When It Rains, It Pours—Disaster Strikes
Posted by Jim Shockey
Nightmare come true today; it was pouring rain all night. We waited until about 7 a.m. and then finally headed down toward our stand. Figured we'd get into the Double Bull blind and maybe the rain won't affect us in there. We were actually walking down th
Soaked to the Skin in Ethiopia
Posted by Jim Shockey
Long day ... went this morning in the dark, just got to our stand at first light, and there was already a big male nyala and about five females already down in the little meadow. We couldn't get to our blind. They saw us and took off. He was a nice one. I
