About Boone and Crockett Club - Big Game Records Keeping

The Club's 12th Competition was held in 1966 at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh. Pictured here are the members of the Judges Panel, from left to right: Emily S. Toerge (secretary), Edd McGuire, Dr. J. Kenneth Doutt, John Andrews, George L. Norris, John H. Batten, Dr. John Hammett, Frank Cook, and George Church.

Accountants keep track of money. Jails keep rosters of inmates. And the Boone and Crockett Club keeps records of the largest specimens of North American big game. Why? Because if you’re going to measure the success of conservation and restoration efforts for an entire continent, then you’re going to need some way to keep score. And that’s what the Club’s founders did when they published the first copy of Records of North American Big Game in 1932.

Now, nearly a century later, researchers and hunters alike can search the Big Game Records LIVE! database to understand trends in wildlife management, to know what’s working and what needs attention. To make a very long conservation success story short, the record books are proof that the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation works. And if you’re wondering what that whitetail scores above the mantle at your hunting camp, check out the online scoring calculator below.

While the Boone and Crockett Club may best be known for celebrating the biggest horns and antlers, there are scientific reasons behind the record book.

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