By PJ DelHomme 

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.

The Boone and Crockett Club welcomes the Secretary’s Order 3447 issued today by Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum that will ensure federal public lands are open for hunting and fishing opportunities. Following is a statement by Boone and Crockett Club chief executive officer Tony A. Schoonen.

This booklet includes important statistical data (who, where, when, score, measurements, etc.) for each trophy featured in the 28th Awards trophy display. Also included is the award each trophy received at the banquet, and a quality, portrait photograph of the top trophy in each category.

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.

By Craig Boddington — Today’s interest in extreme-range shooting cannot be ignored. I have not tried to ignore it; I love to ring steel way out there. I don’t profess to be particularly adept at it, but with an early background in prairie dog shooting, I’m pretty good at calling wind. Thing is, both ringing steel and shooting prairie dogs are hit-or-miss propositions, and the results are…