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Records of North American Big Game

Boone and Crockett Club

The most complete records book available from the World's foremost authority on native North American big game records keeping.

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The MeatEater Podcast

The Boone and Crockett Club record book was mentioned as a source of information for wildlife scores, specifically for black bears and pronghorn. The scoring system and its use of fractions were discussed.

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I've read a lot of Boone and Crockett and Pope and Young scores. An example would be that the world record black bear scored twenty three and ten sixteenths or that the world record pronghorn is ninet...

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The Boone and Crockett Club record book was mentioned as a source of information for wildlife scores, specifically for black bears and pronghorn. The scoring system and its use of fractions were discussed.

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I've read a lot of Boone and Crockett and Pope and Young scores. An example would be that the world record black bear scored twenty three and ten sixteenths or that the world record pronghorn is ninety six and four eighths.

The Boone and Crockett record book lists their scores to either a sixteenth of an inch or for lower scoring animals like bears or cougars or to an eighth of an inch for higher scoring animals like deer or elk.

Name four of the seven states that have a desert bighorn sheep entry in the Boone and Crockett record book.

The seven states are Arizona, Nevada, California, New Mexico, Texas, Utah and Colorado.

Arizona leads the country with 420 desert big horn sheep entries in the Boone and Crockett record book. That's followed by Nevada with three fifty two. California with seventy four. New Mexico with fifty one. Texas with forty seven. Utah with twenty four in Colorado with eight.

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