When the Boone and Crockett Club was founded by George Bird Grinnell and Theodore Roosevelt in 1887, it was named after two legendary frontiersmen. Here’s why.  

Imagine being invited to dinner by Theodore Roosevelt, and then being asked to help him create (and name) a hunting organization dedicated to conserving the last remaining wild places and wildlife that lived there.

The Boone and Crockett Club hosted over 550 people at the Buck Buckner 32nd Big Game Awards events in Springfield, Missouri, in late July. The triennial Big Game Awards celebrate the most impressive heads, horns, antlers, and tusks accepted into the Club’s Record Book in all 38 categories.

Listen Now > > > Lady Luck often seems fickle, but in reality, she tends to favor those who most deserve a shot of good fortune. This truism proves itself regularly in the whitetail world, where hard work results in consistently good results for certain hunters. If you need an example, consider this three-year episode involving a practicing trophy hunter from Edgar County, Illinois.…

After a pair of moose lock their antlers and fight to the death in Idaho, a hunter and his daughter attempt to recover the racks and have a day they will never forget. Oh, and one of the bulls is the fourth largest recorded for Idaho and number 16 of All-time. 

The moose would not go down. In one last final act of desperation (or perhaps revenge), it lowered its antlers and charged at 30 yards. Dall DeWeese stood there, alone, armed with his Mannlicher, watching as the old bull closed the gap. It wasn’t leaving Cook’s Inlet without one last fight. And DeWeese was in the crosshairs.