Hunting

The Pope & Young Club has named Joe Bell, former Editor of Bow & Arrow Hunting magazine, as the Executive Director of the Pope & Young Club. Joe will lead the operations of the Club in pursuit of its mission.

"We are very excited to have Joe on board, leading the club," says Jim Willems, President of the Pope & Young Club. "As a 14 year member, Joe understands the importance of our mission and what it will take to ensure a strong future for bowhunting in North America."

Vintage photos of giant mule deer with yardsticks nestled in their headgear. Historic score sheets boasting crazy-wide antler spreads--up to 43-4/8 inches for typicals; 49-2/8 inches for non-typicals. Classic accounts of legendary muley hunts.

Camo giant Realtree has joined a prominent and growing list of sponsors for one of North America's longest-running celebrations of big-game conservation and management--the Boone and Crockett Club 28th Big Game Awards, July 17-20 in Reno, Nev.

The question isn't what did that buck score? The real question is how did that big deer get there in the first place? Telling the story of historic conservation successes is the hallmark of "Boone and Crockett Country," an award-winning television series with a new network, new host and a new season's worth of adventure and discovery.

By Jim Heffelfinger, Professional Member, Boone & Crockett Club

Senator Jon Tester, D-Montana, and Senator Jim Risch, R-Idaho, today introduced legislation--the "Making Public Lands Public Access Act of 2011"--that guarantees funding for improving hunter access to existing public lands.

In a letter to Idaho House Majority Leader, Mike Moyle, Boone and Crockett Club president Ben Wallace extended the Club's support of the Bill he introduced that would strengthen Idaho's "no fly and hunt" law from reading just helicopters to "any aircraft." Moyle introduced House Bill 186 over the increasing practice of using aircraft-friendly landscape to exploit a loophole in

It is with sadness that the Pope and Young Club shares the news that our founder, Glenn St. Charles, has passed away. Glenn St. Charles, passed away September 19^th at his home in Seattle, Washington, after a short illness. He was 98.