The Boone and Crockett Club, the oldest wildlife conservation group in the U.S., founded by Theodore Roosevelt, praises President-Elect Donald Trump's announcement of U.S. Representative Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.) to become Secretary of the Department of the Interior.

Hunter, angler and businessman, Ben B. Hollingsworth Jr. of Houston, Texas, has been elected president of America's first conservation organization, the Boone and Crockett Club. For more than 129 years, Club members have helped shape the scientific, educational, political, economic, social, technological and environmental forces affecting natural resource conservation in North America. As…

Effective Date: December 3, 2016

The Boone and Crockett Club, the oldest hunter-conservationist organization in North America, has released a position statement and video on big-game trophies and hunting.

There are several aspects to public hunting and its connection to wildlife and habitat conservation that are not well understood. Trophy hunting, however, is the subject that has generated the most misunderstanding…

Today the Boone and Crockett Club and Pope and Young Club announced that an elk from Montana taken on public land during the archery season in 2016 is a potential new archery World's Record typical American elk. 

After the mandatory 60-day drying period, the elk's official entry score was confirmed at an astounding 430 inches. The bull was taken on a solo hunt early in the Montana…

Suppressors, or silencers, have been around for more than a century. According to Hollywood, suppressors are only used by assassins hiding behind full-length curtains. In reality, suppressors are more commonly seen in the field today, being used by hunters. Even Theodore Roosevelt was a fan. He owned three.

Eight Entries to Cure the Winter Blues 

Not a season goes by that word doesn't circulate on yet another tremendous big game animal having been taken in fair chase by a hunter. Some years we're talking about more than one record-breaker, and this year is no exception.

Thus far, two such animals stand out; a typical American elk taken with a bow in Montana that has been verified to be the largest of its kind recorded in the…