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More to the Score – A Dozen Eye-popping Entries – Volume 8

Sheep, Bears, Caribou, Whitetails—There’s a Giant for Every Hunter Could you pick only one species to hunt for the rest of your life? We can’t either, so we waded through our recent big game entrie...

Adventures from the Archives – Theodore Roosevelt’s World’s Record Cougar

Colorado 1901Theodore Roosevelt is the only U.S. president with his name in the Boone and Crockett records. And as far as we know, he’s the only hunter to kill a World’s Record with a hunting knife.On...

Poach & Pay: Understanding the “Dark Figure” of Illegal Wildlife Crime

The Boone and Crockett Club and Wildlife Management Institute’s Poach & Pay Program recently completed analysis of early data from surveys of landowners, hunters, and conservation officers in an effort to understand the “Dark Figure” of poaching. Initial research under the Poach & Pay project in 2016 examined and reviewed state restitution systems for illegal take of big game species and found that the judicial systems were the primary obstacle for successfully convicting and punishing poachers.

Chronic Wasting Disease Research and Management Act Enacted by Congress

Congressional action prior to the holidays enacted the Chronic Wasting Disease Research and Management Act as part of the final omnibus spending bill for 2023. The legislation formalizes a 3-year-old program that supports states and tribes in their efforts to control chronic wasting disease (CWD), an always fatal neurological disease affecting cervids like deer, elk, and moose.

The Biggest Billies in the Book

Rocky Mountain goats are tough animals, and hunting them is no walk in the park. Their horns are incredibly hard to judge in the field. To make matters worse, hunters need a keen eye to discern nannies from billies. They live in some of the most inaccessible terrain of any North American big game animal. Even if you see a great billy, you must know that you can recover it after the shot. Every year, determined hunters venture into goat country with a coveted tag—and each one of them has the adventure of a lifetime.

Saving the Last of the Redwoods - B&C Impact Series

There were about two million acres of old-growth redwoods in Northern California before Europeans arrived en masse to the area. Today, only about 110,000 acres of old-growth redwood forest remains. If it weren’t for Boone and Crockett Club members, there wouldn’t be any redwoods left at all.

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More to the Score – A Dozen Eye-popping Entries – Volume 8

Adventures from the Archives – Theodore Roosevelt’s World’s Record Cougar

Poach & Pay: Understanding the “Dark Figure” of Illegal Wildlife Crime

Chronic Wasting Disease Research and Management Act Enacted by Congress

The Biggest Billies in the Book

Saving the Last of the Redwoods - B&C Impact Series

Rocky Mountain Goat Shatters Previous World’s Record

Vintage Whitetail Hunters - Volume 7

Brian Ross: Portrait of an Antler Collector

2022 Holiday Message from B&C