4 New P&Y World Records

Pope and Young Announce Four New World Records

Pope and Young Club

CHATFIELD, MN - Four new World’s Records were officially recognized during the Pope and Young Club’s 26th Biennial Convention and Awards Banquet in Denver, Colorado. Just over 100 of the biggest and best animals taken in the last two years were requested and received for verification by the 26th Biennium Panel Judging Session prior to the Denver Convention. These outstanding specimens represented all 34 categories of North American big game and were displayed in an unforgettable public exhibit during the three-day convention.

Species: Polar bear

•Score: 26 10/16
•Location: Cape Brown, Northwest Territories
•Bowhunter: Jimmie Ryan
•Year: 2008
•This bear bested a World’s Record that had stood since Richard McIntire’s Alaska polar bear shot in 1958 (which was tied by a 2002 bear from Nunavut).

Species: Roosevelt’s elk

•Score: 378 6/8
•Location: Columbia County, Oregon
•Bowhunter: Clifford M. Hayden
•Year: 1991
•The gigantic coastal rainforest elk exceeded the previous world’s record by over 11 inches (367 3/8, Tillamook County, Oregon, Dale Baumgartner, 1985).

Species: Tule elk

•Score: 312 5/8
•Location: Solano County, California
•Bowhunter: Audrey Goodnight
•Year: 1990
•Audrey’s bull is the first declared world’s record for a new record book category that was formally introduced last year. Found in central California, Tule elk are an elk subspecies that exhibit the similar crowning point structure as do Roosevelt’s elk, found on the west coast further to the north. Since establishing the category July 1, 2008, the Pope and Young Club has accepted 22 Tule elk entries into the Records.

Species: Desert Bighorn sheep

•Score: 178 6/8
•Location: Hidalgo County, New Mexico
•Bowhunter: Jim Hens
•Year: 2007
•New York state bowhunter Jim Hens traveled to New Mexico on a lengthy hunt that resulted in a ram that narrowly surpassed the previous world’s record (178 2/8, Tiburon Island, Mexico, George Harms, 2000).


Established in 1961, the Pope and Young Club is a non-profit North American conservation and bowhunting organization dedicated to the promotion and protection of our bowhunting heritage, hunting ethics and wildlife conservation. The Club also maintains the universally recognized repository for the records and statistics on North American big game animals harvested with the bow and arrow.

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(Congratulations to the bow hunters on their impressive accomplishments)

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

looks like the only one I'll ever have a shot at is the Roosevelt elk - since they live where I live

I hope, one day, to draw a desert bighorn tag - but I'm sure if I do, I'll be chasing them with a rifle in my hands

Me also, orduck' ... tho I'll not likely be tryin' to get any Bighorn tag except the OIL version here in Nodak ... long odds, so I'll prolly be still filin' those applications until I can no longer hunt, but if I ever do get one, I'll plan on tryin' to fill the tag with the rifle ... BTW, our Nodak sheep are nice (they're ALL nice), but the state record ram didn't score high enuf to make B&C books ... tho the big ones are out there, according to the G&F folks ... since they transplanted some from the Missouri Breaks in Montana, the growth and reproduction has really taken off, and I'd expect a B&C qualifier any year now ... might only hope it'd be mine ... if ... whenever ... someday ...

All of life is six-to-five against, just enough to keep you interested. (Damon Runyan)

Gravity makes all the important decisions ... (John R. Powers)

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I agree - any bighorn is nice

The odds of drawing a tag for one here are not good - but someone has to draw them!

I can't imagine what it most feel like to break a world record. I managed to make B&C book on a big bear a few seasons ago and I was thrilled but to break the record. Awesome!

The freshest tracks still have feet in them.

I guess that will be the last Polar Bear to get into the books, unless they lift the ban on hunting them. The Tule Elk is impressive considering not too long ago some of the Ca state senators wanted them gone completely. Good thing we hunters overruled the gov on that one huh? Congrat's to all of the stick and string hunters.

Gary Scheel
NAHC LM,RMEF LM,NRA Member, Lonestar Bowhunter, TexasHogHunter Pro Staff Member

ORIGINAL: txbhunter1@sbcglobal

I guess that will be the last Polar Bear to get into the books, unless they lift the ban on hunting them. The Tule Elk is impressive considering not too long ago some of the Ca state senators wanted them gone completely. Good thing we hunters overruled the gov on that one huh? Congrat's to all of the stick and string hunters.

since the Tule Elk are native to California, those senators would be fighting against the animal rights people as well as hunters!

of course, they succeeded in getting the monster mule deer and roosevelt elk eliminated from Santa Rosa Island - a true shame that this is happening - by 2011 (I think) they will all be killed off!  This has been a great hunting area since somewhere around the 1920's - with muleys brought in from the Kaibab Plateau of northern Arizona, and the roosevelts brought in from somewhere in the northwest.  Some huge bucks and bulls have been taken - and even though it's pretty much a rich man's game, it's awful to see this wiped out by the antis.

ORIGINAL: orduckhunter

ORIGINAL: txbhunter1@sbcglobal

I guess that will be the last Polar Bear to get into the books, unless they lift the ban on hunting them. The Tule Elk is impressive considering not too long ago some of the Ca state senators wanted them gone completely. Good thing we hunters overruled the gov on that one huh? Congrat's to all of the stick and string hunters.

since the Tule Elk are native to California, those senators would be fighting against the animal rights people as well as hunters!

of course, they succeeded in getting the monster mule deer and roosevelt elk eliminated from Santa Rosa Island - a true shame that this is happening - by 2011 (I think) they will all be killed off!  This has been a great hunting area since somewhere around the 1920's - with muleys brought in from the Kaibab Plateau of northern Arizona, and the roosevelts brought in from somewhere in the northwest.  Some huge bucks and bulls have been taken - and even though it's pretty much a rich man's game, it's awful to see this wiped out by the antis.

I don't get this. Somebody explain to me why the Senators or anyone else want to wipe out muley's and elk on Santa Rosa Island???? Why would the ultra liberal, enviro terrorists want to see any of these animals killed??? Or does their animal rights tune change when they are aggravated by wildlife????

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

You hit it right on the nose. "Aggrevated by wildlife" If the animals eat their precious perrenials, then kill them all. They have the power to make and break the laws to suit themselves. That is why they call it the "Left Coast, Land of Fruits And Nuts".  LMAO

Gary Scheel
NAHC LM,RMEF LM,NRA Member, Lonestar Bowhunter, TexasHogHunter Pro Staff Member

  Guess they wanted them killed off because they weren't "natural" to the island and they wanted the island returned to its "natural state!!" 
 
  Congrats to the Hunters for their new World records!!  That reminds me... I gotta renew my P&Y membership!!!

Jeff

yeah, shadow is right - that's the reason they gave
however, I think there's a much deeper anti-hunting sentiment behind it all