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A Baker’s Dozen of the Best 32nd Awards Animals
World’s Records, state records, and plenty of great hunting stories will be on display at the 32nd Big Game Awards.
We’re celebrating animals on a grand scale with a larger-than-life party in Springfield, Missouri, this summer. The owners of the following 13 animlas have already confirmed their attendance, and plenty more are expected. If you're able to attend, we'll make it worth your while.
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Aron F. Wark and his guide, Sam Kapolak, covered dozens of miles each day over rough terrain near Contwoyto Lake in the Canadian Territory of Nunavut for a shot at the biggest musk ox in the records. On August 1, 2023, Wark took that shot and killed a musk ox that beat the previous World’s Record by one point. Wark’s bull scored 131-4/8 points, nudging out Alex Therrien’s entry from 2020.
B&C SCORE: 131-4/8
LOCATION: Contwoyto Lake, Nunavut
YEAR TAKEN: 2023
HUNTER: Aron F. Wark
WORLD'S RECORD ROOSEVELT'S ELK
Wildlife biologist and hunting guide Tim Carpenter rarely gets a day to hunt for himself. So when he got a tip about a big bull from a friend who knew he had the tag, Tim wasted no time locating the big Roosevelt’s elk. The elk officially scored 455-2/8 points, smashing the old record of 439-7/8 points held by Rick Bailey’s British Columbia bull from 2015.
B&C SCORE: 455-2/8
LOCATION: Humbolt County, California
YEAR TAKEN: 2023
HUNTER: Tim Carpenter
In 2022, Justin Kallusky was looking for goats in the cliffs above British Columbia’s Stikine River. He and a friend were hunting out of their backpacks and eating freeze-dried meals hoping that a little bit of life outside their comfort zone would yield a good billy. As they were glassing, Kallusky spotted a giant goat butt. The goat was bedded facing uphill and stuffed up under a rock to hide from the sun. The men waited four hours for the goat to stand up. When it did, Kallusky was confused. He couldn’t understand why the goat’s head looked so small. He aimed and pulled the trigger on his Tikka. When he walked up to the goat, Kallusky soon realized why its head looked so small. The horns were just that big.
B&C SCORE: 60-4/8
LOCATION: Stikine River, British Columbia
YEAR TAKEN: 2022
HUNTER: Justin Kallusky
U.S. RECORD ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT
Judd Manuel beat the odds long before he stepped off a boat onto the shores of southeast Alaska’s Cleveland Peninsula. His odds of drawing the one goat tag for the unit were less than .25 percent. He’d won the lottery, and he knew it. He and two hunting buddies braved every kind of weather and a lot of tent time waiting for the right moment to hunt a big billy. When the opportunity came, he didn’t hesitate. “I had a great hunt as soon as we left the dock, thanks to the crew that was with me,” Judd said. “Just getting out on public land has been instrumental to my happiness.”
B&C SCORE: 57-4/8
LOCATION: Cleveland Peninsula, Alaska
YEAR TAKEN: 2024
HUNTER: Judd D. Manuel
Bo Prieskorn had bought a handful of raffle tickets to support conservation efforts on behalf of elk in Virginia. He thought he might win a rifle or some binoculars. Little did he know that he and his son Austin would participate in an elk hunt a decade in the making. And there was no way for him to know that Austin would shoot a bull that scored 413-7/8 (net) to put him at the top spot for Virginia elk. In fact, it’s the only bull in the Boone and Crockett records book from Virginia, but thanks to current restoration and conservation efforts, it certainly will not be the last.
B&C SCORE: 413-7/8
LOCATION: Buchanan County, Virginia
YEAR TAKEN: 2022
HUNTER: Austin Prieskorn
COLORADO STATE RECORD BIGHORN
When Kevin Neil applied for a bighorn tag in his home state of Colorado in March 2022, he decided to mix things up. After years of putting in for one particular unit, he took his 12 points and tried his luck somewhere new. He talked to a hunting buddy who had mentioned a ghost-like, full-curl ram that would vanish once the season began. He applied to hunt that unit and drew. He had wanted to hunt bighorns since he was 13 years old. At 36, he was finally going. Things went well on that hunt, but his record only lasted two weeks. Here’s Neil’s story—and the ram that nudged him off the podium.
B&C SCORE: 200-0/8
LOCATION: Hinsdale County, Colorado
YEAR TAKEN: 2022
HUNTER: Kevin J. Neil
PENNSYLVANIA STATE RECORD ELK
With Pennsylvania’s new typical elk state record, James Balise, Jr. is rightfully smiling. He killed this bull with a 23 Nosler in October 2022 on private land in Elk Hunt Zone 14. The Keystone State is producing some whopper bulls thanks to habitat conservation efforts and management.
B&C SCORE: 407-4/8
LOCATION: Clinton County, Pennsylvania
YEAR TAKEN: 2022
HUNTER: James E. Balise, Jr.
TYPICAL COLUMBIA BLACKTAIL
With the second-largest typical Columbia blacktail in California, this is Steven Boero with his best Columbia blacktail to date.
B&C SCORE: 171-1/8
LOCATION: Shasta County, California
YEAR TAKEN: 2007
HUNTER: Steven P. Boero
OREGON NON-TYPICAL MULE DEER
High above the Snake River on the Oregon side of Hells Canyon, Boone and Crockett member Mike Carpinito was hunting mule deer a few days before Thanksgiving in 2021. He connected with this glorious non-typical mule deer in the early afternoon on public land. Even with all that junk, the rack only had 4-2/8 points deducted.
B&C SCORE: 254-6/8
LOCATION: Wallowa County, Oregon
YEAR TAKEN: 2021
HUNTER: Mike A. Carpinito
PENNSYLVANIA NON-TYPICAL AMERICAN ELK
With a massive bull just a hair under 10 points shy of the state record, David Kammerdiener killed this elk with his crossbow in September 2022. He killed the 11x7 bull after applying for an elk tag for 21 years. To top it all off, he killed the bull on his 66th birthday. We’d say that’s a pretty good gift.
B&C SCORE: 445-2/8
LOCATION: Clearfield County, Pennsylvania
YEAR TAKEN: 2022
HUNTER: David L. Kammerdiener
MEXICO DESERT SHEEP
In recent years, desert sheep entries have been on the rise. In fact, 2022 saw nearly three dozen record-book entries, including this outstanding ram killed by Louis Breland. This ram came from the Mexican state of Coahuila, adjacent to west-central Texas. Breland’s ram is Coahuila's largest ram on record and ranks number ten All-time.
B&C SCORE: 191-1/8
LOCATION: Coahuila, Mexico
YEAR TAKEN: 2022
HUNTER: Louis W. Breland
On a sunny day, Aaron Mansfield used a .25-06 to take this great typical whitetail. He and his deer will be honored at the Jack Steele Parker Generation Next Awards banquet on July 25, 2025, in Springfield, Missouri.
B&C SCORE: 170-4/8
LOCATION: Todd County, Kentucky
YEAR TAKEN: 2021
HUNTER: Aaron H. Mansfield
ARIZONA PRONGHORN
Shooting a 7mm SAUM, Mark Worischeck killed this top ten All-time pronghorn in Arizona on a sunny, 60-degree day.
B&C SCORE: 92-6/8
LOCATION: Coconino County, Arizona
YEAR TAKEN: 2024
HUNTER: Mark Worischeck
We look forward to seeing you in Springfield, Missouri - July 24-26, 2025
The Importance of Records in Big Game Management
When you enter your trophy into the Boone and Crockett system, you aren’t just honoring the animal and its habitat. You are participating in a data collection system that started in the 1920s and was refined by Club members in 1950. Today, there are nearly 60,000 trophy records. By establishing a records database more than 70 years ago, the Boone and Crockett Club established a scientific baseline from which researchers can use to study wildlife management. If you’re still on the fence about entering your trophy, we encourage you to read Why Should I Bother to Enter My Trophy. To the best of our ability, we ensure that the trophies entered into the records were taken in accordance with the tenets of fair chase ethics. Despite what some may think, the Boone and Crockett records are not about a name or a score in a book—because in the end, there’s so much more to the score.
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