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The Stories Behind the Biggest Typical Whitetail Deer

NUMBER ONE — Hunter: Milo Hansen Score: 213-5/8 points Location: Saskatchewan Year: 1993 It all started with a school bus driver. On the last day of Saskatchewan’s 1992 deer season, the d...

Chasing the World’s Largest Sheep—Altai Argali—In the Russia-Mongolia Transboundary Zone

Sergei Spitsyn exemplifies the spirit that motivates us. With enormous effort and at considerable personal risk, Sergei spends up to nine months each year roaming these landscapes to survey snow l...

What is Your Fair Chase?

By PJ DelHommeSure, it’s legal, but is it right? With a high-powered rifle and a pile of optics worth more than my twelve-year-old truck, I assumed filling a couple pronghorn tags in southwestern Mont...

More to the Score – The Latest Top 10 B&C Entries – Volume 3

Winter 2021 Edition - Whether your hunts are in the rearview or you’re layering up for one more try, we have a number of new record entries to keep hunting on your mind. Check out a new Montana state record black bear, a behemoth bighorn ram from North Dakota, and an Appalachian sleeper-state producing some incredible whitetails.

The Stories Behind the World’s Biggest “Pick ups”

Spend enough time outdoors, and you are bound to find something interesting. For some, those interesting things happen to be world record heads, horns, and antlers. Here are the stories behind the biggest “pick ups” ever found.

Vintage Hunting Gallery - Volume 2

Unless you eat your quarry where it drops, you need to get it out of the woods and into the freezer. Thanks to a wealth of vintage hunting photos in the Boone and Crockett records database and our books—Mule Deer Retrospective, An American Elk Retrospective, and Vintage Hunting Album—we bring you a slideshow dedicated to vintage rides and record-book racks.

Net Score Vs. Gross Score

Why doesn’t the Boone and Crockett scoring system count all those points?A great way to get into an argument around the campfire is to tell a hunter their animal’s antlers or horns aren’t going to sco...

Clean Bores. And Certainty.

Lead, copper, water and time conspire to sabotage accuracy. You can save it. But first….

Wildlife Caught on Camera - Volume 2

PREDATOR EDITION! Snow-covered grizzlies, lions (with kittens), curious coyotes, and more. Welcome to Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front. On the Boone and Crockett Club’s 6,500-acre Theodore Roosevelt ...

Meet Pennsylvania's State Record Elk

With an official score of 455, this is the biggest elk ever recorded in Pennsylvania. Duane Kramer lives in Bellingham, Washington, and he bought a few raffle tickets last year (okay, a lot of raffle tickets) for the 2020 Keystone Elk Country Alliance (KECA) Raffle. The lucky winner would get the chance to hunt one of Pennsylvania’s monster bulls. And you guessed it, his name was drawn.