New categories are considered only when the following conditions are met: Other new trophy categories (e.g., wolves, Columbia whitetail deer, alligators) have been proposed, but both Committees maintain a conservative stance in reviewing such proposals. Pope and Young Club just added non-typical Sitka blacktail in 2020. In fact, the Boone and Crockett Club has created four new categories since 1986, including non-typical American elk, tule elk, and non-typical categories for both Columbia blacktail deer and Sitka blacktail deer. The B&C Records Committee creates new categories from time to time. So it has been necessary to break up the total ranges of some of the species into various categories in order to provide proper recognition.īoth Records committees have, over the years, gradually defined the areas from which trophies may be entered and have modified these boundaries in some cases when more thorough knowledge of the distribution of the animals in question has become known. For example, mature moose from Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Colorado, etc., of the Shiras’ variety, although they may grow large and beautiful racks, are unable to compete with the monstrous moose from the Alaska-Yukon region. Continental limits and held waters define east and west boundaries for all categories.Ī number of species show geographical variation so that there are smaller varieties inhabiting some parts of the continent and larger ones elsewhere. ![]() The northern limit for trophies such as polar bear and walrus is the limit of the continent and associated waters held by the United States, Canada, or Greenland. Only cougar, jaguar, and whitetail deer of the recognized trophy categories range south of this boundary, and only the first two reach recordable size south of Mexico. ![]() For such purposes, the southern boundary is defined as the south boundary of Mexico. ![]() Big-game records keeping for both Boone and Crockett and the Pope and Young Club deals only with certain native North American big game animals.
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