By Michael J. O’Haco, Jr.
19th Big Game Awards Program | From Legendary Hunts

New federal rule acknowledges historic conservation win, addresses current conservation needs.

The Boone and Crockett Club celebrates today’s proposed rule for grizzly bear conservation by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

By Charles J. Hogeland
23rd Big Game Awards Program| From Legendary Hunts

By Lester A. Kish
21st Big Game Awards Program| From Legendary Hunts

To say that hunting is a sport of luck is an understatement. In 1990, I had the good fortune to draw a bighorn sheep permit in Montana’s Unit 213, near Anaconda. With odds exceeding 100 to 1, just drawing the permit was an incredible stroke of luck.

Listen Now  > > From the very first moment that I saw this buck, I knew I had to have him, no mat­ter the cost in time or effort.

Listen Now > > The huge elk caught me by surprise. I was hunting mule deer with my guide when a bull bugled 200 yards away. I say “bugle,” but that’s really not the word. “Growl” would better describe the sound.

Listen Now  > > As a lifelong resident of Edmonton, Alberta, I was aware of the trophy whitetail potential of the area surrounding my hometown, even prior to September 20, 1991. On that day, that trophy whitetail potential became trophy whitetail reality.

By Robert B. Nancarrow
23rd Big Game Awards Program| From Legendary Hunts

I had just been thrown from the sled, when John, my guide, prematurely threw out the anchor before the sled had slowed enough for a safe dismounting. I landed on my chest, with my rifle under me, sliding across the ice in the snow. We had tried to intercept a large boar that had been pursuing a sow, with…

By Ronald N. Franklin
25th Big Game Awards Program| From Legendary Hunts