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 yards and the guys whistled and it stopped, and I got the shot, perfect.

This evening after we looked at literally thousands of puku, I finally took a shot at one ... about 160 yards perfect heart shot. It's really big. Excellent day.

And while I'm standing here right now there are two sets of lions roaring; one huge big male right across the river from us is roaring right now. This morning the big guy was on our side roaring the whole morning woke me up about three times. It was pretty disconcerting because we had to walk this morning about a mile and we knew that he was around somewhere.

Great area, Richard Bell-Cross is a great outfitter, excellent. Thanks again to the guys at Global Hunting Resources.

The next day ...

We went out for warthog, because that's the only thing that I have left in this area. We sat and waited and three big warthogs came in and I shot the second one. There are hundreds of warthogs in this area.

Tomorrow we drive back to Lusaka, then the next morning we catch a charger plane early in the morning for a different area where we go after black lechwe in these big huge swamps and big floodplain. That will be a one-day hunt. Then we fly back that evening if all goes well; then the day after that we fly on to Botswana.

They told me an interesting story last night. Richard Bell-Cross' parents were with two friends fishing on a river some time ago. All of a sudden they saw a baby elephant coming down stream in the mouth of a giant croc, and baby elephant was screaming and croc had it just by the skin.

They chased after it with the boat, chased the croc away and got the baby elephant and took it to shore. They backed off and figured they'd just leave it there, but the baby elephant came back in the water to try to come back in the boat with them. So they went back up on shore with it again and right then the mother elephant and another female, maybe its aunt,  came screaming out of the bush because they had been following the croc downriver.

The adult elephant came up and started smashing the boat to bits and went up to the baby elephant, right in front of them. The baby elephant grabbed the mother's tail and they turned and went off. True story, 100 percent!