An American Elk Retrospective:

Vintage Photos and Memorabilia from the Boone and Crockett Club Archives A fascinating, comprehensive look at the story of elk hunting in America from the nation’s premiere big game hunting historians.

After nearly a century of Records Keeping, the Boone and Crockett Club has dug deep into its records archive and produced the ultimate history book for elk hunting enthusiasts. An American Elk Retrospective will take readers back through the evolution of elk hunting and big-game records keeping from the late 1880s up through the 1970s, and is packed with hundreds of amazing vintage photos, historic score charts, recordskeeping correspondence, and portraits of award-winning elk. n n

Hardcover with dust jacket Over 250 B&W photographs

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8 x 10 inches 272 pages

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VINTAGE PHOTOS & memorabilia

ABOVE: Paul H. Temple used a Savage Model 99 to harvest this record-book bull elk sporting a 53-2/8 inch greatest spread. As noted in the newspaper clipping at right, Temple was joined by W.E. Talent and Jack Keenan on the November 1927 hunt in Jefferson County, Montana. Decades after the hunt Temple’s son, Gary, had the bull officially scored and entered the animal the Club’s 25th Awards Program with a final score of 377-4/8 inches.

LEFT: Shown in the background is the

original correspondence from Idaho hunter Doyle Shriver regarding the bull he harvested on November 1, 1954. The wapiti was entered in the 7th Competition with a final score of 393-2/8 points after being scored by a Boone and Crockett official measurer.

first prize | BERT ELLIS GEORGE 1951 competition

Bert Ellis George was hunting with guide Sterling Johnson in Wyoming’s Big Horn Mountains when he harvested this bull. It was sent in to the 1951 Competition where it was awarded a First Prize.

AWARD WINNER

5TH Competition - 1951

special trophy

The Harold Vaughn Bull

Not all entries make it their first time around. In the early days of Boone and Crockett recordskeeping, things were a bit fluid. Adjustments had to be made as more data were collected. A bull taken near Rock Lake, Alberta, in 1968 was entered into the 14th Competition as a typical. Unfortunately, after panel scoring, its final score dropped below the entry minimum and it was sent home. At the time of the 14th Competition (1971), B&C did not yet have a category for non-typical American elk. This category was added in 1986. At the urging of Phil Wright, then director of Big Game Records, the Vaughn Bull was re-entered as a non-typical with a score of 401-6/8. The bull currently ranks No. 5 out of a total of six non-typical American elk entries from this province.Â

Front of the 1930s score chart for wapiti

Back of the 1930s score chart for wapiti