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B&C WORLD'S RECORDS

The Boone and Crockett Club's Records Committee, which is the governing body of the Club's records-keeping activities, created the Special Judges Panel with the express purpose of verifying and announcing potential new World's Records as they are submitted during any triennial Awards Program.

The Boone and Crockett Club Records Program recognizes 38 different categories of North American big game. In order for a trophy to be declared a World's Record it must be brought before an Awards Judges' Panel at the end of an Awards Entry Period or a Special Judges Panel. Only these Judges' Panel can certify a World's Record and finalize its score.

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A Special Judges Panel was convened on January 2, 2009, to verify the final score of Denny Austad's non-typical American elk and certify it as a new World's Record. The Special Judges Panel consisted of four long-standing Boone and Crockett Club Official Measurers (from left) Frederick J. King, Jack Reneau, Roger Atwood, and Eldon L. "Buck" Buckner.
BOONE AND CROCKETT CLUB CONFIRMS NEW WORLD'S RECORD NON-TYPICAL AMERICAN ELK

FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 2009

MISSOULA, Mont.—Perhaps the largest elk ever produced in the wild—a Utah bull taken in 2008 by a hunter on public land—has been confirmed as a new World's Record. The official declaration was made today by the Boone and Crockett Club.

A Special Judges Panel determined a final score of 478-5/8 Boone and Crockett non-typical points, an incredible 93 inches above the B&C minimum score of 385 for non-typical American elk and 13-plus inches larger than the previous World’s Record.
With official data dating back to 1830, at 499-3/8 inches it is the only elk on record with a gross score approaching the 500-inch mark. The giant bull has 9 points on the left antler and 14 points on the right. The larger antler has a base circumference over nine inches.
The Boone and Crockett scoring system, long used to measure the success of wildlife conservation and management programs across North America, rewards antler size and symmetry, but also recognizes Nature's imperfections with non-typical categories for most antlered game. The bull’s final score of 478-5/8 inches included an incredible 140 inches of abnormal points.
"Along with measurements that honor the quality of the animal, Boone and Crockett Club records also honor fair-chase hunting," said Eldon Buckner, chairman of the Club’s Records of North American Big Game committee. "Through our entry process, signed affidavits and follow-up interviews with the hunter, his guides, and state and federal officials, we were satisfied that this bull was indeed a wild, free-ranging trophy and that the tenets of fair chase were used in the harvest."
The hunter, Denny Austad of Ammon, Idaho, hunted the Monroe Mountain District in south-central Utah. Hunting with a self-designed rifle, Austad killed the bull on Sept. 30, 2008. He hunted for 13 days before connecting with the trophy, dubbed “spider bull” for its unique antler configuration.
On behalf of the Boone and Crockett Club, Buckner congratulated Austad and credited his new World’s Record to the tremendous management of habitat and wildlife by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources and the Fishlake National Forest.
"Utah's conservation professionals really deserve a pat on the back, as do the citizens of Utah for their support of their state’s wildlife programs," said Buckner.
Across North America, ever-improving conservation practices have translated to flourishing big game populations, with balanced age-class and mature, trophy animals. Over the past 30 years, qualifying Boone and Crockett records book entries for American elk have increased 193 percent from a total of 14 in 1977 to 41 in 2007.
Across all categories of native North American big game the overall trend is even higher with 344 qualifiers in 1977 up to 1,151 in 2007--a 234 percent increase.
The previous World’s Record for non-typical American elk was 465-2/8 B&C points. That bull was found dead, frozen in Upper Arrow Lake, B.C., in 1994, and was entered into Boone and Crockett Club records by the B.C. Ministry of Environment on behalf of the citizens of British Columbia.
For hunter-taken non-typical American elk, the previous top bull scored 450-6/8 B&C points, taken in 1998 in Apache County, Ariz., by Alan Hamberlin.
Boone and Crockett Club also keeps records for Roosevelt’s and Tule elk. World's Records for these categories are substantially smaller than those for American elk.

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