Full 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.
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
