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Attention big-game hunters: Dec. 31, 2015, is the deadline for entering your trophies into Boone and Crockett records, if you'd like to be included in the Club's 29th triennial Big Game Awards book, banquet, exhibit and conservation data. The Boone and Crockett scoring and records-keeping program was the first data collection system designed to measure and evaluate the population health and habitat quality of native North American big-game species. This historic info has been used for decades to improve state and federal wildlife polices and management strategies, and to recognize those sportsmen and women who were fortunate enough to take a record book animal.
The Mule Deer Foundation adds their name to the growing list of sponsors for one of North America’s longest-running celebrations of big-game conservation and management -- the Boone and Crockett Club 29th Big Game Awards, scheduled for July 14-16, 2016, in Springfield, Missouri.
By unanimous vote of its board of directors, the Dallas Safari Club (DSC) has officially adopted the Boone and Crockett Club scoring system for measuring North American trophies taken by DSC members.
Young hunters age 16 and under have taken 67 Boone and Crockett qualifying trophies over the past three years. Each will be listed in the triennial Boone and Crockett Club 27th Big Game Awards book due out later this year. Included among the youth trophies are a massive Alaska brown bear and the largest non-typical mule deer recorded in 36 years, both of which are Top 5 specimens in their respective categories for the awards period.
Four classics in outdoor literature, all digitally re-mastered and newly available from Boone and Crockett Club, top the summer reading list for hunters, adventurers and conservationists. The paperback series includes: A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa by Frederick Courteney Selous Camp-Fires in the...
Bowhunting is absolutely vital to conservation today. The Boone and Crockett Club is acknowledging this too-often underappreciated truth with a tip of the hat to the upcoming 2013 biennial national convention of the Pope and Young Club. The event is set for April 10-13 at the Hilton Anatole in...
In commemoration of its 125th anniversary, Boone and Crockett Club has released an historic list of the Top 125 trophy counties across the U.S. The list is based on Boone and Crockett big-game records--trophy data going back to 1830 and long used by conservationists to gauge outstanding habitat,...
Odds of you harvesting a Boone and Crockett-class whitetail buck this year: approximately 1 in 20,000. Odds of keeping your trophy dreams alive while browsing the newest Records of North American Whitetail Deer book from Boone and Crockett Club: Well, let's just say these odds are exponentially...
By Jim Heffelfinger, Professional Member, Boone & Crockett Club Typical whitetail deer scoring 171-2/8 points taken by Curtis R. Theisen in Wisconsin. Hunters in the U.S. and Canada are the driving force behind the most amazing system of wildlife conservation ever developed. Because of its...
Denny Austad with his new World's Record non-typical elk Perhaps the largest elk ever produced in the wild—a Utah bull taken in 2008 by a hunter on public land—has been confirmed as a new World's Record. The official declaration was made today by the Boone and Crockett Club. A Special Judges Panel...
Registration deadline extended to June 3 for Boone and Crockett Club's 27th Big Game Awards Program Banquet and related activities that will take place at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nevada, June 22-26, 2010. REGISTRATION DEADLINE extended to June 3, 2010! Since 1947, Boone and Crockett Club...
The Wild Sheep Foundation (WSF) has formally endorsed the Boone and Crockett scoring system for measuring North American sheep taken by WSF members. The move follows a unanimous vote by the WSF board of directors. By official proclamation, WSF will use the Boone and Crockett scoring system—and its...
Although the venerable .30-06 and .270 remain among the favorites, Boone and Crockett Club big-game records show that hunters with a .300 Magnum are taking more North American trophies than any other caliber. Surprisingly, the second-most-popular trophy-taker isn’t a firearm—it’s a bow. B&C...
Passion for big game and big game hunting is a good thing. This passion is what drove the recovery of big game populations in North America, including whitetail deer, from dismal to thriving. It is the basis of the conscience choice people, sportsmen in particular, have made to make sure wildlife...
We're pleased to announce that registration is now open for Boone and Crockett Club’s 27th Big Game Awards Program Banquet and related activities that will take place at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nevada, June 22-26, 2010. Events during this weekend will include receptions and banquets...
Most knowledgeable hunters can readily define the Grand Slam—as far as wild sheep are concerned, that is—as bagging one each of the four different North American wild sheep, "all having been taken in fair chase by an individual hunter." The four species are the Dall's, Stone's, Rocky Mountain...

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