PREVIEW

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IntroductionBy Eldon l. “Buck”BucknErVice President of Big Game Records (Boone and Crockett Club)

In 1902 Theodore Roosevelt, Caspar Whitney and Archibald Rogers were ap-pointed to a “Committee for Measurement of Trophies” for the purpose of es-tablishing a uniform standard of measurement for big game of North America.

In 1906, under the direction of James Hathaway Kidder, this became the “Committee on Big Game Measurements,” which published Big Game Measurements: Game Book of the Boone and Crockett Club that same year.

While not a records book, per se, this rare volume prescribed and illustrated the measur-ing procedures for various species, which evolved into the measuring system in use today. The 13th Edition of Records of North American Big Game represents the culmination of 108 years of effort by Boone and Crockett Club to measure and keep records of North American big game.

This book lists 5,690 new entries, including five new World’s Records. Credit for much of the work involved with obtaining data on these trophies must go to the 1,314 B&C Official Measurers who volun-teer their valuable time scoring trophies and helping fellow hunters with their entry requirements.

Readers will find a full explanation and detailed analysis of the current trophy listings in Jack Reneau’s introduction to the tabulated entries section of this book. This edition is the first to list gross scores of entries in addition to B&C official scores by which all trophies are ranked.

Boone and Crockett Club was founded on the premise of wildlife conservation, and this edi-tion includes chapters on current issues of interest to hunters.

Fair chase was and is a fundamental tenet of Boone and Crockett Club. Wayne van Zwoll is a Professional Member, well-known author of several books on hunting and firearms and has written numerous magazine columns and articles on these subjects. He does an outstanding job of discussing the factors that make hunting such a special, per-sonally rewarding experience and why too much technology can detract from it.

The Equal Access to Justice Act was enacted in 1980 to enable private citizens and small busi-nesses to be reimbursed for litigation costs when they prevail in disputes with government agencies. Boone and Crockett Club Past President Lowell E. Baier explains how certain non-profit organizations have abused this law, collected millions of dollars of public funds, all while preventing land management agencies, such as the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service, from accomplishing their work. He goes on to discuss the recently introduced Government Litigation Savings Act, intended to correct such previous abuse, and explains why sportsmen-conservationists should be concerned.

Lead in ammunition and fishing tackle has become an important issue to sportsmen and gov-ernment agencies in recent years, with no acceptable resolution to perceived problems and little unbi-ased information available to the public. Rebecca Humphries, B&C Professional Member, teamed with B&C Professor William F. Porter at Michigan

Opposite: A page from the 1906 Club publication Big Game Measurements: Game Book of the Boone and Crockett Club. Measuring techniques have evolved since this first measurer’s manual was published.

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State University and two research assistants to prepare a summary of several studies involving the affects of lead on both human and wildlife health.

Many hunters and most wildlife biologist are aware that caribou populations of all subspe-cies (with the possible exception of the mountain variety) have been decreasing rapidly in recent years. B&C Professional Member Shane Mahoney of Newfoundland is internationally recognized as an inspirational champion of the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation. He presents an overview of Newfoundland’s research efforts to determine the causes for the diminished numbers of woodland caribou.

Quality habitat produces healthy big game animals able to achieve their maximum genetic potential. The color section in this edition features North America’s big game animals in examples of quality habitat for their species.

An increasingly urbanized population creates greater demands for energy and space. Coupled with a seemingly growing lack of understanding

of the connection between life and earth’s natural resources, this metamorphosis will result in even greater challenges to biologists and hunter con-servationists in the future. It will require greater commitment and effective use of increased knowl-edge from all of us to ensure future generations the opportunity to experience the personal satisfactions of big game hunting.

Eldon l. “Buck” BucknEr is the current Vice President of Big Game Records and Chairman of the Boone and Crockett Club’s Records of North American Big Game Committee. First appointed an Official Measurer in 1968 while serving as a U.S. Forest Service range conservationist in Arizona, Buck has served as Judges Panel Chairman, Consultant, and Judge for Boone and Crockett Club’s Awards Programs since 1989. He is also a co-founder and member of the board of directors of the Jack O’Connor Hunting Heritage and Education Center in Lewiston, Idaho. He is also the Oregon State Director for the NRA Youth Hunter Education Challenge Program.

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Opposite: Wayne van Zwoll does an outstanding job of discussing the factors that make hunting such a special, personally rewarding experience and why too much technology can detract from it. The fair chase art of hunting is studying the game and its habitat, and using that knowledge to your advantage.

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Table of ContentsrEcords of north AmEricAn Big gAmEThirteenth Edition — 2011

Foreword by Ben B. Wallace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v

Introduction by Eldon L. “Buck” Buckner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

Chapter 1: Newfoundland’s Woodland Caribou: Science and Management for a Declining Population by Colleen E. Soulliere and Shane Mahoney . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Chapter 2: What’s Fair. And Not. Is it time to rebalance the scales tipped by ATVs, lasers, cell phones, and other “hunting” hardware? by Wayne van Zwoll . . . . . .13

Chapter 3: Lead Ammunition Finding an Optimal Solution to a Problem with Many Dimensions by Rebecca Humphries, William F. Porter,

Shawna Hanisch, and Andrea Bowling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Chapter 4: Reforming the Equal Access to Justice Act The Government Litigation Savings Act of 2011 by Lowell E. Baier . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Chapter 5: General Policies of the Boone and Crockett Club’s Big Game Records Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Chapter 6: Great Wildlife Needs Great Habitat by Tony A. Schoonen and Justin E. Spring . 49

Tabulations of Recorded Trophies by Jack Reneau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Black Bear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Boundaries for Grizzly Bear and Alaska Brown Bear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Grizzly Bear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Alaska Brown Bear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Polar Bear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Jaguar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Cougar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Atlantic Walrus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Pacific Walrus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Boundaries for Elk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

American Elk – Typical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

American Elk – Non-typical. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Roosevelt’s Elk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Tule Elk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Mule Deer – Typical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Mule Deer – Non-typical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

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Boundaries for Blacktail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Columbia Blacktail Deer – Typical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Columbia Blacktail Deer – Non-typical. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Sitka Blacktail Deer – Typical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Sitka Blacktail Deer – Non-typical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Whitetail Deer – Typical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Whitetail Deer – Non-typical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Coues’ Whitetail Deer – Typical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

Coues’ Whitetail Deer – Non-typical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

Canada Moose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

Alaska-Yukon Moose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479

Shiras’ Moose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492

Boundaries for Caribou . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513

Mountain Caribou . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517

Woodland Caribou . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531

Barren Ground Caribou . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541

Central Canada Barren Ground Caribou. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561

Quebec-Labrador Caribou . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571

Pronghorn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585

Bison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631

Rocky Mountain Goat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643

Musk Ox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663

Bighorn Sheep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677

Desert Sheep. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703

Dall’s Sheep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721

Stone’s Sheep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731

Appendix

General Measuring Techniques. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745

Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 752

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What’s Fair. And Not.Is It tIme to rebalance the scales tIpped by atVs, lasers, cell phones, and other “huntIng” hardware?Wayne van Zwoll (B&C Professional Member)

Killing without intimacy is, I imagine, like donating sperm. I’ve killed from a dis-tance and killed up close. Close is better. Especially when you get there without help. Close isn’t the same as sure (I once missed a deer at 14 feet with a rifle).

But close puts you on-stage; you’re no longer hidden in the back row but have crept up under the lights, where you needn’t do anything wrong to get ejected. Just being where you are is wrong; as soon as you’re noticed, the jig is up.

Before they figured out how to hurl things, hunters and warriors were compelled to get close. The resulting dust-ups guaranteed excitement and injury. Killing from afar with rocks, spears, and boomerangs was less thrilling, but safer and easier. These devices had limited range, however, because they depended on the unassisted power of the hu-man arm. The atlatl, the sling, and the bow added mechanical advantage.

By some accounts 15,000 years old, the bow earned its place in European history at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Normans fooled their English foes with a false retreat, then drove arrows into oncoming troops to win the day. Robin Hood proved the longbow on the king’s deer. But the poachers of Sherwood Forest (hung with their bowstrings when caught) were pardoned if they agreed to join the king’s bowmen. At Crecy (1346) and Agincourt (1415), English archers trounced the French army.

So effective was the bow in North America that many tribes stayed with it after the appear-ance of firearms. Many arrows could be loosed in the time required to re-charge a musket; bows and arrows could be fashioned in the field. “Bigfoot” Walker, the Texas Ranger who helped design Colt’s

4-pound Walker revolver, respected the Plains Indian and his bow. “[Indians] can shoot their ar-rows faster than you can fire a revolver, and almost with the accuracy of a rifle at the distance of 50 or 60 yards.”

By the early 1800s, gunmakers had begun re-configuring the slender Kentucky rifle. They made it sturdier and gave it a bigger bore. Dur-ing this transition in rifle design, General W.H. Ashley, head of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, devised the rendezvous to collect furs from trap-pers on the frontier. Tons of pelts funneled into St. Louis. Among the flood of Easterners pinning their fortunes to the fur trade were brothers Jacob and Samuel Hawkins. Changing their name to the original Dutch “Hawken,” they opened a St. Louis gun shop in 1822. A Hawken plains rifle typically wore double-set triggers and a slow-twist 50-caliber octagonal barrel of soft iron. Hunters claimed kills to 300 yards. Hawken rifles would survive the next great development in firearms.

“Where is the military genius [to] modify the science of war as to best develop the capacities of this terrible engine—the exclusive use of which would enable any government … to rule the world?” In an appeal to the U.S. Government, Oliver Winchester so described his rimfire Henry—the Civil War phenomenon Confederate soldiers called “the rifle you loaded on Sunday and fired all week.” Repeat-

Opposite: Satisfaction in killing depends on the effort invested in the hunt. A shot simply ends the chase.

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ing rifles would change hunting as dramatically as they changed warfare.

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The middle of the 19th century saw huge advances in firearms. Many inventors chased re-peating mechanisms; Christian Sharps pursued a better single-shot. Market hunter George Reighard owned two Sharps rifles, with telescopic sights. In a 1930 edition of the Kansas City Star, he told how he shot bison:

“In 1872 I organized my own outfit…. I fur-nished the team and wagon and did the killing. (My partners) furnished the supplies and did the skinning, stretching and cooking….

“The time I made my biggest kill I lay on a slight ridge, behind a tuft of weeds 100 yards from a bunch of a thousand buffaloes that had come a long distance to a creek, had drunk their fill and then strolled out upon the prairie…. After I had killed about twenty-five my gun barrel became hot and began to expand, … so I put that gun aside and took the other. By the time that became hot … the powder smoke in front of me was so thick I could not see through it … I had to crawl back-ward, dragging my two guns, and work around to another position on the ridge, from which I killed fifty-four more. In one and one-half hours I had fired ninety-one shots … and had killed seventy-nine buffaloes….”

By the early 1880s, so many bison had been killed that human scavengers would glean more than three million tons of bones from the plains.

These days sportsmen wince at such carnage. It’s not what we do now. Big game and its habitat have thrived under management initiated and funded by hunters. But as the excesses of the 19th century resulted partly from the mass production of efficient firearms, so the killing of game in the 21st century is threatened by recent developments in hunting hardware.

High-velocity cartridges date to the early 20th century. During the 1940s and 1950s many more

appeared. They were paired with accurate rifles and powerful optics, extending lethal reach well beyond average hunting ranges. Some riflemen now boast of long shots as if, in hunting, marksmanship trumps woodsmanship, and owning the deadliest hardware beats both. While the notion of fair chase can hardly exclude long shooting, it does presume first-shot kills. Ethically, a shot makes the grade if it brings quick death. Clean kills follow sure shots—those you make with regularity. The less likely a center hit, the more likely a crippling hit. Distance is just one factor affecting accuracy. Your rifle and ammo and skill matter. So do your shooting position, the conditions and target angle. On a bipod or a pack prone, with no wind, you might make a 400-yard shot confidently. Offhand in a gusty breeze, 60 yards can seem very long. My standard: If on paper I could make nine hits in 10 tries, it’s a shot to take. Otherwise I decline.

EvidEncE To convicT

To most sportsmen the hunt is more than a killing exercise. It is an intense personal experience, with deep roots in tradition. It imposes physical challenge. It tests resolve and woodsmanship. It is also hard to explain to people with no connec-tion to hunting. The uninitiated can dismiss it—or rail against it—as a display of male aggression, legalized violence, a camaraderie borrowed from cavemen. They cite not only sophisticated gear, but methods that make the chase easier and more often successful.

Critics point out that hunting might qualify as food procurement, even wildlife management. “But it isn’t sport.” As commonly understood, sport is a contest that gives competitors equal chances to prevail. Rewards for the winner and consequences for the loser are the same, no matter the outcome. Hunting isn’t like that. Sometimes the animal has every advantage, and a shot is rare. Some condi-tions favor the hunter, and a kill is all but certain. Whether a shot happens or not, whether or not it’s a lethal hit, the hunter lives on. The game survives only when he fails. So fair chase is not always fair. At its best, hunting gives the animal more than an even chance to live. The hunter voluntarily puts himself at a disadvantage. Without a self-imposed handicap, the hunter may succeed as predator, but not as sportsman. Antlers are no prize if they come

Opposite: The experience of the hunt matters more in memory than the possession of antlers.

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Whitetail Deer – Typical AntlersOdOcOileus virginianus virginianus and related subspecies Story of the World’s Record

Working long days as a grain and cattle farmer in Biggar, Saskatchewan, Milo N. Hanson is not a man who has the time or money to hunt all over the conti-nent, but then again he hasn’t had to go that far. Hunting on his

property in 1992, Hanson ended up reaping more from his fields than the usual autumn harvest.

“On the night of November 22, we had fresh snow, and I called the guys to plan our hunt. The next morning, I met my neighbor John Yaroshko and we drove to meet Walter Meger and Rene Igini. When we pulled up I knew something was hap-pening because they were excited. They said they spotted the monster buck entering a willow run and not coming out.

“Rene walked the track while the rest of us surrounded the willows. I took a position that would keep the buck from running south onto nearby posted land. The buck bolted, giving me my first look at it. Believe me, my heart was pumping! We shot but missed it.

“Rene stayed on its tracks, and eventually lost the buck in a maze of other deer tracks because its tracks weren’t large. Just when we were getting frustrated and ready to move on, the big buck ran out of an aspen bluff and headed into a willow run on my land. We posted ourselves around the wil-lows, and Rene walked the buck’s tracks. The buck ran flat out about 150 yards broadside from John and me. I think we both got buck fever this time! We fired several shots but missed the racing buck.

“We moved up to the next willow run, and when the buck ran out it turned straight away from me. I fired and the buck went down to its knees. ‘You got him!’ John hollered.

“The buck got up and ran into a nearby as-

pen bluff. I ran up the hill to where it disappeared, and saw it below me, standing still. I aimed through my 4-power scope and fired another shot with my .308 Winchester Model 88 lever-action. Down it went. I saw its head over a clump of willows. To en-sure it stayed down, I fired another shot and the hunt ended.

“Shooting this buck gave me a feeling I will probably never experience again, even though I had no idea it would be declared the new Boone and Crockett Club World’s Record in Dallas, Texas, at the 22nd Big Game Awards Program. I had never seen a bigger buck. The buck left me shaking.”

Life on the farm took a turn. Following pre-preliminary measurements that put the whitetail in the running for the new World’s Record, Han-son found his home under siege from journalists, promoters, collectors, and well-wishers. After the 60-day drying period, Norm Parchewsky, Robert Al-lemand, and Allan Holtvogt, all Boone and Crockett official measurers, scored the buck at 213-1/8 in a scoring ceremony attended by more than 400 people.

At the 22nd Big Game Awards Program, the Boone and Crockett Club Judges’ Panel declared Hanson’s buck the new World’s Record typical white-tail with a final and official score of 213-5/8 points.

Trophy InfoB&C SCORE 213-5/8 points

LOCATION Biggar, SK

HUNTER Milo N. Hanson

OWNER Milo N. Hanson

DATE KILLED 1993

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No. 2 – 206-1/8 poiNts

James Jordan – 1914

No. 5 – 204-2/8 poiNts

stephen Jansen – 1967No. 6 – 203-3/8 poiNts

hubert collins – 2003No. 7 – 202-6/8 poiNts

bruce ewen – 1992

No. 1 – 213-5/8 poiNts

milo n. hanson – 1993

Top Ten Whitetail Deer – Typical Antlers

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No. 8 – 202 poiNts

John a. breen – 1918No. 9 – 201-4/8 poiNts

wayne a. bills – 1974No. 10 – 201-1/8 poiNts

bradley s. Jerman – 2004

No. 3 – 205 poiNts

larry w. Gibson – 1971No. 4 – 204-4/8 poiNts

melvin J. Johnson – 1965

Whitetail Deer - Typical | OdOcOileus virginianus virginianus et al. | minimum score: 170

Circumference Between Length of Burr and NumberFinal Gross Main Beam Inside 1st Point of Points DateScore Score R L Spread R L R L Locality Killed Hunter Owner Killed Rank

213 5/8 223 7/8 28 4/8 28 4/8 27 2/8 4 6/8 5 8 6 Biggar, SK Milo N. Hanson Milo N. Hanson 1993 1206 1/8 209 3/8 30 30 20 1/8 6 2/8 6 1/8 5 5 Burnett Co., WI James Jordan Bass Pro Shops 1914 2205 213 4/8 26 6/8 25 4/8 24 2/8 4 6/8 4 6/8 6 6 Randolph Co., MO Larry W. Gibson MO Show-Me 1971 3 Big Bucks Club204 4/8 212 7/8 27 5/8 26 6/8 23 5/8 6 1/8 6 2/8 7 6 Peoria Co., IL Melvin J. Johnson Bass Pro Shops 1965 4204 2/8 231 4/8 26 4/8 22 6/8 25 1/8 5 1/8 5 1/8 7 10 Beaverdam Creek, AB Stephen Jansen Stephen Jansen 1967 5203 3/8 208 4/8 25 7/8 27 2/8 19 3/8 5 7/8 5 5/8 6 6 Sturgeon River, SK Hubert Collins Hubert Collins 2003 6202 6/8 216 4/8 28 27 1/8 21 2/8 5 3/8 5 3/8 9 8 Barrier Valley, SK Bruce Ewen Bass Pro Shops 1992 7202 223 3/8 31 2/8 31 23 5/8 5 7/8 6 8 8 Beltrami Co., MN John A. Breen Bass Pro Shops 1918 8201 4/8 216 1/8 27 5/8 29 1/8 23 5 5/8 5 2/8 6 6 Hamilton Co., IA Wayne A. Bills Bass Pro Shops 1974 9201 1/8 209 7/8 29 6/8 29 24 1/8 5 5 6 5 Warren Co., OH Bradley S. Jerman Bradley S. Jerman 2004 10201 217 7/8 26 2/8 26 2/8 15 5/8 4 5/8 4 7/8 8 6 Kittson Co., MN Wayne G. Stewart Wayne G. Stewart 1961 11200 3/8 224 4/8 28 1/8 27 2/8 24 7/8 4 4/8 4 6/8 8 9 Stevens Co., WA James Cartwright Bass Pro Shops 1992 12200 2/8 214 2/8 26 3/8 27 1/8 24 5 4 7/8 6 7 Whitkow, SK Peter J. Swistun Bass Pro Shops 1983 13200 2/8 232 32 32 4/8 28 3/8 5 4/8 5 3/8 9 8 Macon Co., IL Brian S. Damery Bass Pro Shops 1993 13199 5/8 204 3/8 30 1/8 28 29 1/8 5 3/8 5 3/8 6 6 Edmonton, AB Don McGarvey Don McGarvey 1991 15199 4/8 211 5/8 27 2/8 26 2/8 20 5 4/8 5 1/8 8 5 Clark Co., MO Jeffrey A. Brunk Jeffrey A. Brunk 1969 16199 3/8 204 7/8 27 3/8 27 4/8 22 3/8 4 4/8 4 6/8 6 7 Missoula Co., MT Thomas H. Dellwo Bass Pro Shops 1974 17199 2/8 206 2/8 28 7/8 29 25 6/8 5 5 1/8 6 6 Lake of the Vernon Jensen Vernon Jensen 1954 18 Woods Co., MN199 2/8 203 6/8 27 27 1/8 21 4/8 5 2/8 5 5 5 Flathead Co., MT Kent Petry Bass Pro Shops 1966 18199 2/8 211 7/8 27 2/8 27 1/8 21 3/8 6 5 7/8 6 7 Kansas Picked Up KS Dept. of 1999 18 Wildlife & Parks

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WHitetail deer – typiCal | 213 5/8 — 192 2/8

Circumference Between Length of Burr and NumberFinal Gross Main Beam Inside 1st Point of Points DateScore Score R L Spread R L R L Locality Killed Hunter Owner Killed Rank

198 6/8 203 3/8 26 6/8 26 6/8 21 5/8 4 1/8 4 1/8 6 5 Lewis Co., MO Daryl L. Blum Daryl L. Blum 2002 21198 6/8 215 5/8 28 5/8 27 1/8 20 1/8 4 4/8 4 2/8 9 8 White Co., IL Joseph B. Girten Cabela’s, Inc. 2006 21198 3/8 221 4/8 29 5/8 29 4/8 18 1/8 4 6/8 4 6/8 6 8 Allegany Co., NY Roosevelt Luckey NY Dept. of Env. Cons. 1939 23198 3/8 220 1/8 26 7/8 26 19 4/8 4 7/8 4 7/8 7 7 Muskingum Co., OH Timothy E. Reed Timothy E. Reed 2004 23198 3/8 202 4/8 26 25 2/8 21 7/8 4 6/8 4 7/8 6 6 Good Spirit Lake, SK Blaine D. Kreps Blaine D. Kreps 2005 23198 2/8 214 2/8 27 5/8 26 7/8 20 2/8 5 5 6 8 Nemaha Co., KS Dennis P. Finger Dennis P. Finger 1974 26198 1/8 235 29 7/8 29 4/8 19 5/8 4 6/8 4 7/8 9 8 Decatur Co., IA Kenneth Tilford Bass Pro Shops 1985 27198 1/8 201 4/8 31 1/8 30 4/8 20 7/8 5 4/8 5 3/8 5 5 Greene Co., IL Charles Q. Rives Charles Q. Rives 2006 27198 221 1/8 29 2/8 29 4/8 20 2/8 5 2/8 5 1/8 9 7 Jackson Co., MI Troy A. Stephens MI Whitetail 1996 29 Hall of Fame Mus.197 7/8 219 27 4/8 27 2/8 19 4/8 4 6/8 4 6/8 8 9 Assiniboine River, MB Larry H. MacDonald Bass Pro Shops 1980 30197 6/8 219 2/8 29 2/8 30 20 4/8 5 6/8 5 7/8 6 5 Wright Co., MN Curtis F. Van Lith Bass Pro Shops 1986 31197 6/8 226 30 26 7/8 18 7/8 5 7/8 6 7 10 Kenosha Co., WI Keith S. Brossard Keith S. Brossard 1999 31197 5/8 210 7/8 27 2/8 27 5/8 21 6/8 5 2/8 5 4/8 7 8 Wood Co., WI Joe Haske Goldie Haske 1945 33197 3/8 213 6/8 29 1/8 29 7/8 21 5 1/8 5 2/8 9 7 Mann Lakes, AB Lawrence J. Youngman Lawrence J. Youngman 1992 34197 2/8 214 3/8 25 4/8 27 2/8 32 5 2/8 5 3/8 6 7 Comanche Co., KS Picked Up H. James Reimer 1991 35197 1/8 231 31 29 7/8 21 2/8 6 1/8 6 5/8 7 7 Macoupin Co., IL Kevin L. Naugle Bass Pro Shops 1988 36196 6/8 224 29 6/8 29 21 5 2/8 5 6/8 6 8 Kane Co., IL Ray Schremp Ray Schremp 2000 37196 4/8 212 7/8 28 6/8 27 5/8 24 2/8 4 6/8 4 6/8 8 6 Maverick Co., TX Tom McCulloch Thomas D. Friedkin 1963 38196 4/8 211 27 26 1/8 22 4/8 4 5/8 4 5/8 8 7 Des Moines Co., IA Michael R. Edle Michael R. Edle 1989 38196 3/8 208 3/8 28 7/8 30 5/8 22 1/8 6 5/8 7 7 5 Plymouth Co., IA Picked Up H. James Reimer 1952 40196 3/8 201 5/8 25 7/8 26 1/8 23 1/8 5 4/8 5 4/8 5 5 Fulton Co., IL Roger H. Mann Roger H. Mann 2004 40196 1/8 211 4/8 27 1/8 26 4/8 24 5/8 4 6/8 4 6/8 8 9 McMullen Co., TX Milton P. George John L. Stein 1906 42195 7/8 199 6/8 26 4/8 27 1/8 21 1/8 4 1/8 4 1/8 6 6 Anoka Co., MN Barry Peterson Barry Peterson 1995 43195 5/8 208 1/8 28 4/8 27 6/8 22 1/8 5 6/8 5 7/8 6 7 Marshall Co., MN Robert Sands Robert Sands 1960 44195 5/8 212 1/8 33 6/8 33 1/8 22 7/8 6 2/8 6 1/8 8 7 Indiana Dave Roberts Bass Pro Shops 1985 44195 5/8 212 6/8 29 4/8 27 5/8 18 7/8 4 6/8 4 7/8 9 8 Rock Island Co., IL Kent E. Anderson Kent E. Anderson 1999 44195 4/8 215 2/8 25 3/8 25 7/8 19 4 7/8 4 7/8 9 7 Porcupine Plain, SK Philip Philipowich Philip Philipowich 1985 47195 2/8 203 1/8 28 6/8 28 2/8 20 6/8 5 1/8 5 6 6 Pierce Co., ND Kevin L. Bruner Kevin L. Bruner 1994 48195 1/8 197 3/8 28 6/8 28 4/8 20 3/8 4 7/8 5 5 5 Parke Co., IN B. Dodd Porter B. Dodd Porter 1985 49195 1/8 213 3/8 25 6/8 28 1/8 19 6/8 5 2/8 5 2/8 8 5 Brightsand Lake, SK Larry Pellerin D.J. Hollinger & B. Howard 1993 49194 7/8 207 5/8 26 7/8 27 2/8 23 1/8 6 1/8 5 6/8 7 7 Leavenworth Co., KS William R. Mikijanis William R. Mikijanis 1985 51194 4/8 207 1/8 25 7/8 25 6/8 18 6/8 5 1/8 5 2/8 7 7 Monroe Co., IA Lloyd Goad Bass Pro Shops 1962 52194 4/8 221 4/8 26 2/8 26 18 7/8 5 6/8 5 4/8 8 9 Nipawin, SK Gerald Whitehead Gerald Whitehead 1990 52194 3/8 199 4/8 29 1/8 28 6/8 23 5/8 5 1/8 5 1/8 5 5 Warren Co., IA Forest H. Richardson Bass Pro Shops 1989 54194 2/8 203 6/8 26 5/8 25 21 4 6/8 5 6 6 Jones Co., IA Unknown Bass Pro Shops 1977 55194 2/8 226 1/8 30 6/8 30 3/8 24 7/8 5 3/8 5 2/8 9 7 Vigo Co., IN D. Bates & S. Winkler D. Bates & S. Winkler 1983 55194 1/8 202 3/8 30 30 1/8 19 4/8 4 6/8 5 6 7 Dakota Co., NE E. Keith Fahrenholz E. Keith Fahrenholz 1966 57194 201 6/8 28 4/8 28 6/8 22 2/8 5 5 6 6 Kent Co., MD Kevin C. Miller Kevin C. Miller 2002 58193 7/8 197 4/8 25 2/8 25 2/8 21 5/8 4 7/8 4 7/8 7 6 Van Buren Co., IA W. Eugene Zieglowsky W. Eugene Zieglowsky 1997 59193 6/8 210 2/8 24 5/8 24 4/8 18 1/8 5 5 7 7 Christopher Lake, SK Jerry Thorson Jerry Thorson 1959 60193 6/8 205 4/8 29 5/8 30 23 1/8 5 4/8 5 4/8 6 6 Antigonish Co., NS Kevin Boyle Bass Pro Shops 1987 60193 5/8 202 5/8 28 5/8 28 3/8 23 1/8 4 6/8 4 7/8 6 5 Des Moines Co., IA Picked Up Jerry A. Chubb 1962 62193 4/8 204 6/8 29 29 5/8 23 7/8 5 4/8 5 3/8 6 6 Linn Co., IA Picked Up Gary W. Bowen 1994 63193 3/8 212 1/8 25 6/8 24 5/8 19 1/8 5 6/8 5 5/8 8 8 Witchekan Lake, SK Marcel Tetreault Marcel Tetreault 1998 64193 3/8 209 2/8 27 7/8 29 25 4/8 5 3/8 5 5/8 7 5 Franklin Co., MA Kajetan R. Sovinski Kajetan R. Sovinski 2002 64193 2/8 206 5/8 28 6/8 28 6/8 21 2/8 4 4/8 4 4/8 5 7 Itasca Co., MN Picked Up Paul M. Shaw 1935 66193 2/8 201 2/8 27 5/8 25 6/8 19 4/8 5 4/8 5 2/8 5 5 Sanborn Co., SD Glen McClane Maine Antler 1948 66 Shed & Wildl. Mus.193 2/8 210 6/8 26 25 6/8 22 2/8 5 6/8 5 6/8 5 6 Aroostook Co., ME Ronnie Cox Bass Pro Shops 1965 66193 2/8 208 1/8 28 3/8 27 7/8 22 2/8 5 2/8 5 4/8 8 6 Jackson Co., MI Craig Calderone Bass Pro Shops 1986 66193 2/8 207 3/8 29 4/8 29 1/8 24 6/8 5 2/8 5 2/8 7 5 Chitek Lake, SK David L. Wilson David L. Wilson 1992 66193 202 3/8 25 6/8 26 25 5 3/8 5 5/8 6 6 South Dakota Unknown Eugene J. Lodermeier 1964 71192 7/8 204 1/8 27 4/8 27 2/8 19 3/8 4 3/8 4 5/8 8 9 York Co., ME Alphonse Chase Earl Taylor 1920 72192 7/8 209 5/8 27 7/8 28 2/8 21 7/8 5 5 1/8 7 8 Marshall Co., MN Richard Kasprowicz T. Emanuelson & 1973 72 J. Kasprowicz 192 7/8 202 1/8 28 1/8 28 1/8 19 7/8 5 7/8 6 10 7 Williamson Co., IL A. & J. Albers A. & J. Albers 1991 72192 7/8 200 1/8 26 6/8 25 6/8 18 4/8 5 1/8 5 1/8 7 6 Wabatansik Creek, AB Norman Trudeau Norman Trudeau 1992 72192 7/8 207 1/8 25 6/8 25 7/8 18 5/8 5 4/8 5 3/8 6 9 Makwa Lake, SK Ken Brown Ken Brown 1993 72192 7/8 208 2/8 28 2/8 28 5/8 22 5 2/8 5 2/8 7 7 Mercer Co., IL Jerry W. Whitmire Cabela’s, Inc. 2000 72192 6/8 198 6/8 26 27 19 2/8 5 6/8 5 6/8 6 6 Washington Co., NE Robert E. Wackel Robert E. Wackel 1961 78192 5/8 199 30 30 3/8 23 1/8 5 1/8 5 3/8 5 5 Stark Co., IL Rebecca Ratay Rebecca Ratay 2003 79192 5/8 236 3/8 30 5/8 29 4/8 20 1/8 5 2/8 5 4/8 9 12 Pushmataha Co., OK Jason L. Boyett Jason L. Boyett 2007 79192 3/8 195 5/8 24 1/8 23 6/8 17 3/8 5 4 6/8 6 6 Monroe Co., IN Donald L. Fritch Donald L. Fritch 1992 81192 3/8 208 3/8 28 4/8 28 2/8 19 4/8 5 7/8 5 4/8 9 6 Monroe Co., IA Roy E. Allison Roy E. Allison 1995 81192 3/8 199 7/8 26 7/8 26 7/8 18 5/8 4 6/8 5 1/8 5 6 Jennings Co., IN Walter M. Johnson Walter M. Johnson 1997 81192 3/8 199 6/8 28 6/8 28 4/8 21 5/8 5 4/8 5 4/8 6 5 Clinton Co., OH Kenny Pickard Kenny Pickard 2006 81192 2/8 211 5/8 27 2/8 27 3/8 22 6/8 4 2/8 4 4/8 6 7 Frio Co., TX Basil Dailey John L. Stein 1903 85192 2/8 200 2/8 28 2/8 28 7/8 23 5/8 5 3/8 5 4/8 6 5 Pope Co., MN Roger D. Syrstad B&C National Collection 1989 85192 2/8 194 4/8 26 7/8 26 7/8 18 4/8 5 4/8 5 4/8 5 5 Mills Co., IA John Chase John Chase 1997 85192 2/8 204 3/8 29 1/8 27 7/8 21 4/8 5 7/8 5 4/8 6 5 Souris River, MB T.K. Patterson & T.K. Patterson & 2002 85 D. Dickson D. Dickson

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Top: Paul T. Deuling’s new World’s Record mountain caribou. Above: Robert J. Evans’ award-winning black bear scoring 22-13/16. Right: Riley F. Ottenbreit with his typical whitetail deer from Saskatchewan.