If you’re a hunter looking for a trophy animal, there is no bigger measurement than that of Boone & Crockett. This year marks the 125th anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt starting Boone & Crockett, and they are celebrating with sharing the counties where the most of their trophies have come from. “Consistent trophy production over time [...]
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Billionaire Pledges Largest Ever, 90,000 Acres of Protected Land in Colorado
Here’s a 1 percenter that the loud 99 percenters cannot complain about. In what President Obama called the “Largest single conservation donation” ever provided to the federal government and for all Americans to enjoy, a hedge-fund manager vowed to protect 90,000 acres of Colorado land from further development. Louis Bacon bought a massive amount of [...]
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New York Hunter Spends $300,000 on Bighorn Tag at Wild Sheep Foundation Auction
It's not a record, but the Wild Sheep Foundation got a nice check from James Hens when he won their auction for a Montana bighorn sheep tag. The tag went up for auction at the foundation's annual expo in Reno, Nev. The past two years, the founder of the Jimmy John's sandwich chain came home with [...]
Man Fined $13,000, Loses Hunting Privileges for Life for Illegally Killing Bighorn Ram
In 2009, Roger J. Woodworth, of Idaho, illegally purchased a Montana hunting license. He then somehow managed to apply for a bighorn sheep tag, get drawn, and go on a successful hunt. Unfortunately for Woodworth, though, a tipster turned him into authorities.According to the Spokesman-Review, he will have to pay more than $13,000 in restitution and [...]
Bighorn Tag Auction Raises Research Funds for Idaho
Big game tags are a very popular fundraiser, and in the past 10 years, the Idaho Department Fish and Game has been getting in on the action too.Since 1992, IDFG has raffled off a bighorn sheep tag. One hunter wins the lottery, but it has raised more than $750,000 in the past 10 years, with [...]
Oregon Man Gets 4 Different Hunting Tags At Once
The Statesman Journal reports that a Salem Oregon father-son team won 4 tags simultaneously in separate controlled hunt tag drawings. Matt McColly and his dad, Dennis, got a deer tag, elk tag, big horn sheep tag, and a Rocky Mountain goat tag all at once. The odds of their quadfecta in Oregon were 1 in [...]
The Most Over-Dramatic Bighorn Sheep Video Ever
We love seeing wildlife as much as the next guy, unless the next guy is the person who posted this video on YouTube.While fishing on Willow Beach on Lake Mohave, Ariz., this angler and talented video editor found a couple of very nice bighorn sheep. And while it looks like an audition tape to work [...]
Is Russia the Best Hunting Country? Vladimir Putin Thinks So…
Vladimir Putin might not like hunting polar bears, but he thinks there's plenty of other hunting opportunities that make the world's largest country also the one with the best hunting. Putin's not a big hunter, but he recently talked to our friends at Outdoor Life about Mother Russia's great hunting opportunities: Manchurian wapitis in the [...]
Oregon Man Sentenced to Jail, Lifetime Hunting Ban for Poaching a Bighorn Ram
Sounds like some sweet justice in Oregon, as a poacher was convicted for illegally killing a bighorn sheep. Enoch Ray Robertson was found guilty of five wildlife violations for killing the sheep near his home of Sweet Water, Ore. His sentence includes a lifetime hunting suspension, six days in jail, more than three years probation [...]
Squirrel Hunter Gets Mauled by Tiger in Malaysia, Saved by his Wife and a Soup Ladle
I didn't even know they had squirrels in Malaysia, but a man was hunting squirrels with a blowpipe in Malaysia when he spotted the tiger. He climbed a tree to get away from the attacking tiger, but was pulled down. That's when his wife came running from the kitchen armed with her best ladle, to [...]
