World's Records

B&C World's Record Gallery

We all know there is more to hunting and conservation than the final score of a big game trophy. However, it is important to take a look at the history of records keeping and celebrate those big game trophies that hold the top spot in their respective categories. These records are part of a large data set that measures conservation success.  

World's Record - Bighorn Sheep

WORLD'S RECORD! By Clay Brewer, Kevin Hurley, Kurt Alt and Gray Thornton – The Wild Sheep Foundation Three of the top five Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep recorded by the Boone and Crockett...

B&C World's Record - Pronghorn

In 2013, I bought the New Mexico enhancement pronghorn tag. I have purchased that tag each of the eight or so years that the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish has offered it. TROP...

New World's Record Musk Ox

At four in the afternoon, the three men started cutting up the massive musk ox. Six hours later, they had it quartered and stuffed into their packs. After all, this is how these guys pack their Dall’s sheep out of the Northwest Territories every year. They left behind a front shoulder and hindquarter but placed the head and hide on top of the meat so the grizzlies and wolves would get that first. After a three-mile hump across the muskeg, they got back to camp at one in the morning. At dawn, they returned for the rest. 

Largest Elk in 48 Years, Largest Ever with a Bow

B&C World's Record - Pacific Walrus

In 1997, while searching the shores of Bristol Bay, Alaska, Ralph Young picked up a big-game world’s record—the colossal tusks of a Pacific walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens). Young, who is Commodor...

B&C World's Record - Atlantic Walrus

The story surrounding this world’s record cannot be traced further back than the early 1950s. At that time Roy Vail of Warwick, New York, came across a unique find— the tremendous tusks of an Atlantic...

B&C World's Record - Jaguar

In 1965, C.J. McElroy returned home from the jungle of Sinaola, Mexico, with a world’s record jaguar (Felis onca) that scored 18-7/16 points. Hunting under the cover of night, McElroy adapted himself ...

B&C World's Record - Cougar

The World’s Record cougar (Felis concolor) has held its spot in the records book for more than three decades. The animal was taken on a wintry February day, in British Columbia, Canada, back in 1979. ...

B&C World's Record - Polar Bear

In 1963, on hunt far from his home south of the border in Matamoros, Mexico, Shelby Longoria braved potentially deadly weather and pack ice to take the World's Record polar bear (Ursus maritimus). He'...