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The Duke of Algeciras with a trophy African leopard, one of the 'Big Five', Southern Rhodesia, 1926. Big-game hunting is the hunting of large game animals for trophies, taxidermy, meat, and commercially valuable animal by-products (such as horns, antlers, tusks, bones, fur, body fat, or special organs).
This list of big-game hunters includes sportsmen and sportswomen who gained fame largely or solely because of their big-game hunting exploits. The members of this list either hunted big game for sport, to advance the science of their day, or as professional hunters. It includes brief biographical details focusing on the type of game hunted ...
Hunter with a bear's head and hide strapped to his back on the Kodiak Archipelago. Trophy hunting in North America was encouraged as a way of conservation by organizations such as the Boone & Crockett club as hunting an animal with a big set of antlers or horns is a way of selecting only the mature animals, contributing to shape a successful conservation model in the country in which hunting ...
Hunters across Pennsylvania are finding big trophy bucks since the start of the two-week rifle deer season Nov. 25. Rifle deer season is a statewide tradition that attracts hundreds of thousands ...
William Anderson Bond (December 6, 1917 – June 9, 1992) [1] was an American big game hunter.He had a collection of more than 130 individual game trophy mounts, which he donated to the Red River Valley Museum in Vernon, Texas, where they have been on display since 1985. [2]
Notable leaders include businessman and philanthropist Ken Behring, [3] one of the world's leading big game trophy hunters and SCI's largest donor at one point, [4] and outdoor journalist Craig Boddington, who joined in 1977. [5] He served as President of the Los Angeles chapter from 1982 to 1984 [6] and won the SCI's C. J. McElroy Award in ...
McElroy Hunts The Antelope Of Africa and Antlered Game, by C.J. McElroy, Bill Quimby editor, Trophy Room Books (2002) ISBN 1-882458-33-8 [8] Yoshi, The Life And Travels Of An International Big Game Hunter , by Watson Yoshimoto with Bill Quimby, Safari Press (2003) ISBN 1-57157-175-2 [ 9 ]
Berry Boswell Brooks (February 2, 1902 – January 21, 1976) was an American businessman, philanthropist and big-game hunter. Brooks established his own cotton-brokering firm and maintained a large estate in Memphis, Tennessee. He made a number of hunting expeditions to Africa and Asia and won several hunting awards.