Giants of the High and Low Country

Massive whitetails alongside sheep that define the rugged peaks of the Southwest and frozen North, the latest entries in the Boone and Crockett records tell a story of exceptional habitat and conservation success.

One of the few books ever issued "With the Approval of the Boone and Crockett Club" is "The Rim of Mystery: A Hunter's Wanderings in Unknown Siberian Asia", by John Bird Burnham. Burnham, a Boone and Crockett Club member, along with a companion, Andrew M. Taylor, embarked on a five-month expedition to the remote Chukotsk Peninsula of Northeastern Siberia to determine whether wild…

The reasons why hunters don’t list their trophy in the records are many. Yet there are perhaps just as many reasons why a hunter should enter their animal. 

Backed by a Boone and Crockett Club University Programs fellowship, Jamshid Parchizadeh traveled from the bustling streets of Tehran to the rugged coast of Alaska, driven by a singular mission: to serve wildlife through science.

For Parchizadeh, the road to becoming a wildlife biologist was anything but a straight line.

Texas Game Department, 1957-1966

With an estimated 34 million whitetail deer running around the U.S. today, it's hard to imagine that their numbers were down to around 500,000 in the early 1900s. With proper management, numbers rebounded, and hunting seasons followed. Many hunters were happy to snap a few field photos along the way.