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11/06/2026

If you've ever pulled an SD card after a long winter, you know the feeling. You have no idea what walked past while you were gone.

Winters run long on Montana's Rocky Mountain Front. At the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Ranch, the Boone and Crockett Club's trail cameras kept watching through all of it. Now the footage is in, and a grizzly was among the visitors.

The TRM Ranch exists to research, teach, and demonstrate how livestock and wildlife can share the same working landscape. These cameras are one way we see that balance play out, one frame at a time. Volume 4 of Wildlife Caught on Camera shows who has been moving across the ranch.
Read more: https://www.boone-crockett.org/wildlife-caught-camera-volume-4?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bc_pl_1772249016788_3gvi29&utm_content=bc_1793962809962_c9qxif

11/06/2026

"The drive from Kentucky to Indiana was only a couple of hours, but for my dad and me, it was the start of a hunt we'd been building toward for years."

That's how Nicholas J. Kopp begins his story. A father and son, a good friend's farm, and years of family friendship that made the trip possible.

Then came the power line.

Nicholas puts it plainly: if anyone ever wanted to know what a "perfect hunt" looks like, this was it. What happened out there is how this whitetail earned the name "The Beast of the Power Line."

If you've ever shared a stand or a long drive before dawn with your dad, this one's for you.
Read more: https://www.boone-crockett.org/beast-power-line?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bc_pl_1783440128843_a8l1yq&utm_content=bc_1793955602885_9eq7i6

11/06/2026

Some mule deer stop you in your tracks before you ever think about reaching for your r***e.

These are those bucks. Deep forks, matching tines, frames so balanced they look like somebody drew them by hand. We pulled together the prettiest typical mule deer in the record book, along with the stories of the hunters and the country that produced them.

And for those of you already typing "nets are for fish" in the comments, we hear you. The giant non-typicals are coming soon. For now, take a minute to appreciate what near-perfect symmetry looks like on a muley.

Which one would you hang on your wall?
Read more: https://www.boone-crockett.org/stories-behind-prettiest-typical-mule-deer-all-time?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bc_pl_1772249016788_uwo020&utm_content=bc_1793948401253_c6gw2u

11/06/2026

Theodore Roosevelt chased a mountain lion through the snow-covered canyons of Colorado until the hounds brought it to bay.

It was 1901. He had just been elected Vice President of the United States, and he chose to spend the winter in rough country chasing cats with a pack of hounds and a few hard men who knew the terrain.

What happened when he finally closed the distance is the reason he remains the only U.S. president with his name in the Boone and Crockett records. As far as we know, no other hunter has taken a World's Record quite the way he did.

PJ DelHomme digs into the archives for the full story of that hunt.
Read more: https://www.boone-crockett.org/adventures-archives-theodore-roosevelts-worlds-record-cougar?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bc_pl_1772249016788_sqitiq&utm_content=bc_1793941201209_1ei235

11/06/2026

Doug Laird squeezed the trigger on his .243 and watched a buck with a great set of antlers fold. Then the real surprise started.

That "buck" may not have been a buck at all. Antlered does are one of the rarest oddities in the whitetail woods, and most hunters will go a lifetime without ever seeing one. But Doug's deer raised a question even the experts had to dig into: was it truly a doe, or something stranger?

With more than 50,000 entries in the Boone and Crockett records and archives stretching back over a century, you'd think we'd seen it all. This one had us looking twice.

Have you ever seen an antlered doe in the field? Tell us your story in the comments.
Read more: https://www.boone-crockett.org/biggest-doe-records?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bc_pl_1772249016788_xuobkj&utm_content=bc_1793934001253_qkjf6k

11/06/2026

The single most important law for wildlife habitat in America isn't the Endangered Species Act. It's the Farm Bill. And most hunters have never heard of it.

Think about where you hunt whitetails. Odds are good it's private ground or ground surrounded by it: farms, ranches, field edges, creek bottoms, and timber woven between crops. That's where much of America's wildlife lives, and the Farm Bill funds significant voluntary conservation programs that help landowners keep that habitat healthy.

The Farm Bill is due for reauthorization in 2026, and the Boone and Crockett Club has made it one of its top legislative priorities. The reason comes down to a simple truth: healthy game populations need healthy habitat, and much of that habitat is in the hands of the farmers and ranchers who work the land.

If you care about the future of hunting, this is a bill worth understanding.
Read more: https://www.boone-crockett.org/farm-bill?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bc_pl_1772249016789_bzw3to&utm_content=bc_1793926801231_b0g3l8

11/05/2026

The bull wouldn't go down. At 30 yards, it lowered its antlers and charged.

Alaska, 1897. Cook's Inlet. Dall DeWeese stood there alone with nothing but his Mannlicher, watching an old bull moose close the distance. No guide at his shoulder. No backup. Just a hunter, a r***e, and one of the largest animals on the continent coming straight at him.

This is one of those stories from the Boone and Crockett archives that reminds you what hunting the Alaska frontier really meant over a century ago. DeWeese's Alaska-Yukon moose is part of the record book now, but the story of how it got there is the part worth hearing.

PJ DelHomme digs into what happened on that riverbank in this latest Adventures from the Archives.
Read more: https://www.boone-crockett.org/adventures-archives-dall-deweese-s-alaska-yukon-moose?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bc_pl_1772249016789_q7gty7&utm_content=bc_1793919601140_uwteaj

11/05/2026

Long before most Americans had heard the word "conservation," one man was hauling sketchbooks and paints into the wild country of Canada and the American West.

Carl Rungius didn't just paint big game. He painted what was at stake. His canvases carried the high country, the rugged terrain, and the animals that lived there back to city folks on the East Coast who would never see it for themselves. For many of them, his work was the first real look at what they stood to lose.

In 1895, his story took a turn that shaped the rest of his life and left a mark on the conservation movement. PJ DelHomme tells it in our latest B&C Member Spotlight.
Read more: https://www.boone-crockett.org/bc-member-spotlight-carl-rungius?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bc_pl_1774917546782_239f5p&utm_content=bc_1793898001996_upk8b2

11/05/2026

Judd Manuel beat the odds long before he ever stepped off a boat onto the shores of southeast Alaska.

What happened on the Cleveland Peninsula became something few hunters ever experience. His goat was recently entered into the Boone and Crockett Club Records, and it's likely the biggest one ever taken in the United States.

But the trophy is only part of this story. How Judd got to that shoreline in the first place is what makes it worth reading.

Every entry in our records adds to more than a century of data that helps biologists understand the health of big game populations across North America. This one may rewrite the top of the list.
Read more: https://www.boone-crockett.org/potential-new-record-rocky-mountain-goat?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bc_pl_1772249016789_6vmfbs&utm_content=bc_1793890801472_ee7am6

11/05/2026

96 percent of poachers in this country never face a single consequence.

Let that sink in. Every season, hunters follow the rules. We buy the licenses, respect the seasons, and fund wildlife management through every tag and box of ammo. Meanwhile, the people stealing from our wildlife and from every one of us are almost never caught.

That's what the Boone and Crockett Club's Poach and Pay project uncovered. It is the most comprehensive research ever conducted on poaching in America, presented at a press conference in Washington, DC, this past September. Using a Bayesian statistical framework, researchers put real numbers to a problem that has long been underestimated.

Poaching isn't a victimless crime. It undermines the science-based management that keeps whitetail herds and other wildlife populations healthy, and it robs legal hunters of opportunity.

The full findings are worth your time.
Read more: https://www.boone-crockett.org/poach-and-pay?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bc_pl_1772249016788_n5z0rz&utm_content=bc_1793883600986_6x3nl5

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