Attention big-game hunters: Dec. 31, 2015, is the deadline for entering your trophies into Boone and Crockett records, if you'd like to be included in the Club's 29th triennial Big Game Awards book, banquet, exhibit and conservation data.

The Boone and Crockett scoring and records-keeping program was the first data collection system designed to measure and evaluate the population…

Records of North American Whitetail Deer, 5th Edition

The most complete book of trophy records and info on America's favorite game species is now available in its fifth edition from the world's foremost authority on native North American big game records keeping.

The guiding and outfitting industry has been in existence since man first had an interest in exploring and hunting new lands and for different species of game than one could hunt locally. In North America, the exploration and opening of the West primarily rode on the backs of three things: the fur trade, the gold rush, and big game hunting.

The Boone and Crockett Club was founded by Theodore Roosevelt and George Bird Grinnell in 1887 making it the first organization to address wildlife population declines—especially in big game—on a national scale. To a large extent, the history of conservation in North America is the history of the Boone and Crockett Club.

A big-game research program in northeast Oregon is the recipient of the Boone and Crockett Club's inaugural Conservation and Stewardship Award.

News traveled fast when conservationists learned the largest grizzly bear ever taken by a hunter had been entered into Boone and Crockett records. Nearly as quickly, however, came questions about why grizzlies are distinguished from Alaska brown bears. After all, aren’t these technically the same species?

On Thursday, June 11, a U.S. House of Representatives committee will vote on a bill that would clear the way for professional foresters to do their jobs, and the Boone and Crockett Club is urging sportsmen to support the measure.