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 all of them. They were beautiful bulls, but I didn't want to shoot those at this point. Saw lots of Cape buffalo today, just a good day, did lots of tracking and saw lots of elephants.

THE NEXT DAY ...

Success today, but not for me. The other fellow who came into camp, Bud Bell from Houston, he got a beautiful bull elephant about 55 pounds on each side in the same place we were hunting yesterday with the big bunch we saw there. We hadn't seen this one. He made a perfect brain shot at 22 yards, so he's ecstatic, and I think today was his fifth day of hunting.

We went out and saw the most bulls we saw ever today; 22 bulls today. We saw two more shooters, but both only had one tusk, same as yesterday. So now I've seen five bulls that don't have two tusks.

Then we saw another bull with four of the bulls and we decided to go after him. He was long, would just barely make 50, and at this point now I'm not holding out for that magic 60 number. We got within 46 yards, and I had a perfect brain shot actually at 46 yards, could have got in another 10 yards no problem, but Ronnie could not see him. He's shorter than I am and he cannot see real well or hear real well.

Then the elephant started walking past us, picked us up at about 20 yards in the thick stuff. He turned his head, so I had a straight-on shot. I kept asking Ronnie, "Take him? Take him?" but I don't think he could hear me. So the bull looked at us and made another step closer to us. It's all on camera, beautiful footage. A straight-on shot is not what I want to take, so I let him go. And then Ronnie said it wasn't as big as what he thought anyway.

Hopefully with a little luck we're going to get one here in the next couple of days. We still have six more days left.