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Since 1902 - The Club's Executive Committee appointed Theodore Roosevelt to chair the Club's first Records Committee. Their task was to develop a system that would accomplish three objectives in support of an emerging conservation movement.
- Collect and record biological data to support big game species recover, management, and conservation.
- Draw sportsmen into the conservation movement.
- Promote the concept of sportsmanship and fair play by only accepting trophies taken in "Fair Chase" as defined by the Club.
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The Club was founded in 1887 by Theodore Roosevelt and a handful of friends to address the decline in wildlife populations on a national scale and was the first hunter-conservationist organization in North America. Today, the Boone and Crockett Club is a non-profit organization dedicated to hunter and conservation ethics, education, and demonstration.
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No, anyone can join the Club for an annual fee of $35.00. You'll receive four issues of Fair Chase magazine, plus access to searchable field photos and a searchable archive of every issue of Fair Chase magazine.
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Definitely. The Club's vision also includes Conservation Policy and Advocacy, Hunter Ethics, as well as education from K-12 through post-graduate programs. Although we are best known for our method of scoring native North American big game and records books.
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For over 100 years -- The Club’s interest in evaluating trophies can be dated back to 1891 when Club Members Theodore Roosevelt, George Bird Grinnell, and Archibald Rogers were judges for a trophy competition at the First Annual Sportsmen’s Exposition in New York City. In 1902 Roosevelt, Caspar Whitney, and Archibald Rogers were appointed to the Club's first subcommittee on recording measurements of big-game animals. The Club’s first records book was published in 1932. The current system for scoring big game trophies was formally adopted and copyrighted in 1950 after being reviewed by over 250 outdoor professionals including biologists, guides and outfitters, outdoor writers, taxidermists, and museum curators.
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This group, appointed by Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton, helps advise the Administration relative to issues involving conservation and wildlife and was instrumental in helping President Bush issue an executive order in August of 2007 that calls for greater cooperation among agencies in this regard. It also called for a Conservation Summit, the third of its kind in our nation's history. The first was under President Theodore Roosevelt and the second under President John F. Kennedy.
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No. The Boone and Crockett Club's Records of North American Big Game Program accepts all legally taken trophies under the rules of fair chase whether taken with a rifle, bow, shotgun, handgun, muzzleloader, or crossbow. Pick up or found trophies are also eligible for entry. The deer shown here is the current World's Record non-typical whitetail, which was found dead along side the road in St. Louis County, Missouri, in 1981. The buck scores 333-7/8 points.
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The first Federal duck stamp was designed by Club Member and Pulitzer prize winning political cartoonist, Jay N. "Ding" Darling. He was a newspaper reporter, author, and cartoonist. He was also the 1924 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the "best cartoon" published in any American newspaper during the preceding year. He was a leading conservationist with a deep and abiding interest in wildlife. As such, he was probably the first to draw attention to the plight of the Florida Key Deer in the late 1950s. Ding designed the first Federal Duck Stamp in 1934. The Boone and Crockett Club bestowed him with an Honorary Life Membership in 1959.
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Yes. In the case of an 8-point whitetail, the G-4 is missing. Instead of looking for the smallest location between the G-3 and the G-4, the measurement is taken at the halfway point between the G-3 and the tip of the main beam.
Similarly, on a mule deer with no G-3, the H-3 circumference measurement would be taken at a point halfway between where the G-2 measurement begins and the end of the G-2.
For deer and elk, no matter how many normal points it has, four circumference measurements will always be taken per side.
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The final score of a potential Boone and Crockett World's Record must be verified by either an Awards Program Judges Panel or a Special Judges Panel before it is declared a new World's Record. Awards Program Judges Panels are assembled once every three years following the close of one of the Club's triennial Awards Programs. In addition to certifying new World's Records, these panels also verify the final scores of the top 5 trophies entered in each category during the preceding three years and certify them for coveted B&C medals and certificates. Special Judges Panels are convened during the interim between Awards Program Judges Panels with the sole purpose of verifying and declaring new World's Records. In either case, two teams of two judges each measure a potential World's Record. If the scores of both teams verify the original measurement, the panel will declare it a new World's Record. If a potential World's Record is not sent in for verification by one of these two panels, it will never be declared a Boone and Crockett World's Record.
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