Trophy Stories

Behind every trophy, there is a story.

We dug through our archives, scoured the internet, and interviewed hunters to bring you the stories behind the top trophies in our records. While most of these stories involve hunters going to great lengths to find the biggest specimen, other stories are of hunters who simply lucked out. Some top entries succumbed to old age, vehicle collisions, predators, disease, or poachers. These entries are typically found by hunters and listed as “picked up” in the Boone and Crockett records to distinguish them from hunter-taken animals. Whether taken by a hunter or found by one, every one of these trophies has a tale to tell.