Alaska’s Kodiak Island rests about 250 miles south of Anchorage and just below the mouth of Cook Inlet. Kodiak supports some of the largest land-based carnivores in the world, a unique bear populatio...
In April 1974 a friend and I flew in a Piper Super Cub to the McGrath, Alaska area for a three-week-long grizzly bear hunt. We covered a large area, encountered scores of bears, and settled on a coupl...
On July 1, 1975, the world’s record black bear skull was found along the edge of the Manti-La Sal National Forest, about seven miles east of Ephraim, Utah. In the West, black bears are occasionally se...
L.S. Chadwick's World's Record Stone's sheep is considered to be the greatest North American big-game trophy ever taken. It has stood at the top spot of its respective category for over 80 years....
Having gained the experience he needed on earlier hunts for Dall’s sheep (Ovis dalli dalli), Harry Swank, Jr., a resident of Anchorage, decided to try for a really outstanding ram in Alaska's Wrangell...
Carl M. Scrivens of Jackson, Wyoming, has taken impressive desert sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni), but this accomplished hunter has not shot a ram that compares to the extraordinary trophy he found in...
By PJ DelHomme, photos courtesy of Alex TherrienAt 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. A...
A Special Judges Panel convened by the Boone and Crockett Club confirmed a new World’s Record Rocky Mountain goat. The Club announced the new record at the Wild Sheep Foundation’s 2023 Sheep Show in R...
For years, tourists visiting Yellowstone National Park were awed by a bison skull displayed in the Chief Ranger’s office in Mammoth Hot Springs. The replica was based off the original skull that was s...
This fine caribou trophy, and the story behind its discovery, makes a person wonder how many potential big-game world’s records were taken by Canada's native Inuit during their long tradition of hunti...
