Big Trophies, Epic Hunts: True Tales of Self-Guided Adventure from the Boone and Crockett Club

by Justin Spring Boone and Crockett Club, Jason Matzinger (Introduction), Hanspeter Giger

Overview

Witness the hard-core determination of North America’s most successful do-it-yourself hunters...

Thirty hunters. Thirty record-book trophy game animals—most of them taken on public lands. Thirty epic tales to share back at hunting camp. These are the real-world stories behind some of the top-scoring trophies recognized by the Boone and Crockett Club, North America’s premier wildlife conservation organization. Traverse the deep backcountry in pursuit of North America’s wildest, wiliest big game animals—including cougar, caribou, mule deer, elk, bighorn sheep and more.

Witness the hard-core determination of North America’s most successful do-it-yourself hunters, who combine physical conditioning with research, fair-chase ethics and shooting prowess to seek out and harvest legendary trophy animals. Learn what it takes to make your mark in the record book from 30 who have actually been there. This handsome volume includes an introduction by Jason Matzinger, the well-known host of "Into High Country" on the Sportsman Channel along with a chapter explaining the science and uses of the record-keeping program by Justin Spring.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781940860046
Publisher:	Boone and Crockett Club
Publication date:	10/20/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	280
File size:	16 MB
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About the Author

Justin Spring is the Boone and Crockett Club's Assistant Director of Big Game Records. He has a degree in wildlife biology and spends any spare time he has on self-guided hunting adventures with his wife Becca. They live in Alberton, MT.

Jason Matzinger, thehost of the Sportsman Channel's program "Into High Country," is an extremely talented young man and a gifted hunter, who possesses a tremendous amount of experience at a young age. Jason has grown up hunting, guiding and filming the best of Montana. In only one season Jason took his previous show "Powder Horn Montana" to the top and was nominated for "Best New Series" by the Sportsman Channels Views Choice Awards. Jason resides in Bozeman, Montana.
Hanspeter Giger is a Lifetime Associate of the Boone and Crockett Club as well as a dedicated B&C Official Measurer.

Table of Contents

Introduction | Jason Matzinger
Sagamore Hill Award Winners
Introduction | Hanspeter Giger
Finest Ever Taken | Frank Cook | Dall’s Sheep
World Record Dall’s Sheep | Harry L. Swank, Jr., | Dall’s Sheep
More Short Stories About Sagamore Hill Award Winners | Hanspeter Giger
When the Unexpected Happens | Garry Beaubien | Mountain Caribou
The Longest Night | Michael J. O’Haco | Pronghorn
A Good December | Charles E. Erickson, Jr. | Coues’ Whitetail
Brilliant Idea | Gernot Wober & Lawrence Michalchuk | Rocky Mountain Goat
Going Solo
The Old Warrior | Fred Peters | Black Bear
The King | Lester H. Miller | Columbia Blacktail Deer
27 Years Later | Gene R. Alford | Cougar
Clancy the Caribou | Paul T. Deuling | Mountain Caribou
Lady’s Day in the High Country | Mavis M. Lorenz | Bighorn Sheep
Trinity Dream Come True | J. Peter Morish | Columbia Blacktail Deer
Out of Necessity
Record on a Meat Hunt | L.S. Chadwick | Stone’s Sheep
Polar Bear Number 9 | Robert B. Nancarrow | Polar Bear
My Last Bull | Duane R. Richardson | Bison
A Stone for the Ages | R. Terrell McCombs | Stone’s Sheep
We Got A Stomper | Rip Rippentrop | Bighorn Sheep
When the Smoke Clears | Thomas L. Mello | Tule Elk
Living the Dream | Timothy R. Carpenter | Roosevelt’s Elk
Sharing the Experience
Mexico’s Wild Desert Sheep | Alberto Tapia Landeros | Desert Sheep
Our Grizzly Hunt | Roger J. Pentecost | Grizzly Bear
The Fold | Donald F. Blake | Canada Moose
Christmas, a Day Early | William B. Bullock | Coues' Whitetail
Magic Moment | L. Victor Clark | Mule Deer
The Best Present | John R. Johnson | Alaska-Yukon Moose
Killing the Wind | Michael L. Ward | Alaska Brown Bear
Emotional High | Mary A. Isbell | Shiras’ Moose
Our Lucky Hunt | Kyle Lopez | Mule Deer
As Luck Would Have It | Carla A. de Kock | Musk Ox
Moose of a Lifetime | Robert J. Condon | Alaska-Yukon Moose
Science Behind Keeping Records | Justin Spring