The Boone and Crockett Club’s Roosevelt Ranch Radio podcast channel takes place (mostly) on-site at the Club's 6,000 acre working cattle ranch, the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Ranch, in conjunction with events and place-based conservation education programming occurring within and outside of the walls of the Rasmuson Wildlife Conservation Center. 

The Heart of Dixie is the heart of whitetail country

If you’re looking for adventure, head north. If you can find a good weather window after the bugs have turned to skeeter icicles, you will be rewarded. There you’ll find Alaska brown bears, musk ox, Alaska-Yukon moose, barren-ground caribou, and black bears. Don’t forget Dall’s sheep and Rocky Mountain goat on that bucket list. If you’re looking for a more accessible adventure and want to jump…

Not surprisingly, Arizona is home to a number of desert-dwelling, record-book entries. From pronghorn to desert sheep to Coues’ deer and even a century-old jaguar. This is Grand Canyon country in the north and to the south, you find yourself in true organ pipe cactus territory. Pronghorn have a solid grip on the top 10 entries, but desert sheep reign supreme in Arizona record-book entries.…

Arkansas is known for world-class duck hunting, but that doesn’t mean you should overlook its deer and bear hunting opportunities. The state’s biggest whitetail deer to date came out of Prairie County in 1999, and the state record typical scored 211 points. No one county can really stake a claim as the king of whitetail habitat, but thanks to the Boone and Crockett Club’s County Search Tool…

California is long, like more than 1,000 miles long. Thanks to that north-south spread and being along the Pacific Coast, it has some truly unique antlered animals that happen to like wet climates—and they can get pretty big, too. Granted it’s the only state with tule elk, so it has a lock on those entries, but Columbia blacktail have a solid showing in the records, as do Roosevelt’s elk.…

Much like Wyoming, Colorado is a sporting paradise. Roaming those sage-covered hillsides, record-book mule deer were quite numerous, especially in the top 20. A few pronghorn and black bear make an appearance in the top 100. The antlers belonging to John Plute’s famous “meat bull” were pulled out of Dark Canyon after the locals didn’t believe him when he told them how big the antlers were.…

In the land of Disneyworld, swamps, and retirees, Florida actually has some record entries — Florida actually has millions of acres of public land on which to hunt. The bad news is that those whitetail deer and black bears living there are not going to make the records.