Big Trophies, Epic Hunts
True Tales of Self-Guided Adventure from the Boone and Crockett Club
Published on 7. October 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
280 pages
978-1-940860-03-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
45 black & white halftones
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
431 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-940860-03-9 (9781940860039)
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Justin Spring | Hanspeter Giger
Big Trophies, Epic Hunts
True Tales of Self-Guided Adventure from the Boone and Crockett Club
E-Book
10/2014
Simon + Schuster LLC
€9.88
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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, the host 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.
Content
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