Boone and Crockett Club Fellow Wesley Sarmento has spent two decades sleeping on the ground—from Montana’s backcountry to the Gobi Desert and back again. Today, he’s working with the Blackfeet Tribe on the edge of Glacier National Park to study bison reintroduction on their ancestral lands.

Wesley Sarmento isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty.

John Olin was a business titan who understood that if there was no game left to hunt, consumers would have little use for his company’s Winchester firearms, or Western ammunition.

The Boone and Crockett Fellows Program provides the funding and mentorship necessary for college students and postdoctoral associates to excel in wildlife conservation and related fields.

Who is a Boone and Crockett Fellow?

A Fellow is an undergraduate, graduate, or postdoctoral associate supported by program funding and/or mentored by a Boone and Crockett Professor or Profe

With the Method Visualizer tool, you can search the records for the most popular calibers and draw weights on 29 species of North American Big Game. 

The Boone and Crockett Club has plenty of records. But did you know that for more than a decade the Club has also been keeping track of the weapons and calibers used to take those records?

The Five Stages of the Hunter is a well-documented look at the progressions a hunter goes through as he or she ages and gains experience. As we age and our experiences accumulate, what we get from hunting and give back changes over time.