This book is a survey of the big game animals of the USA, Canada, and Mexico. Each animal is covered in a small chapter discussing the animal's characteristics, behaviour, and conservation, all in a personal, anecdotal style. Includes a range map of each species. Animals covered: Horned animals: bighorn sheep, dall sheep including stone and fannin sheep, pronghorn antelope, mountain goats, bison, and muskoxen. Antlered animals: white-tailed deer, mule deer and black-tailed deer, elk, moose, and caribou. Large Cats: mountain lions and jaguar. Bears: black bears, grizzly bears including brown Kodiak bears, and polar bears.

Records of North American Big Game is a one-of-a-kind big game records book that lives up to its longstanding reputation as "The Book" of native North American big game trophies. The original book was published over eighty years ago. This latest edition is filled with valuable information for today's hunters, outdoorsmen, and game managers. A total of thirty-eight categories are recognized and, as a testament to the success of today's conservation efforts, five new World's Records are featured. Along with the detailed listing of over 25,000 trophies ranked by their all-time scores, this book includes current topics of interest to sportsmen. Records of North American Big Game is much more than statistics--it is a history book of big game animals, making it an exceptional resource for hunters and sportsmen.

While the definition of a successful hunt is left to its participants, the Boone and Crockett Club scoring system remains the benchmark for identifying mature big-game animals and healthy big-game populations. This This handy reference guide is a must-have for your hunting camp!

Contributions by authors about each of the big game mammals including exotics. Includes chapters on early management, big game values, nutrition, population behaviour, predators, and other aspects of management.

The most complete big game records book available--containing a listing of over 22,000 trophies, the stories behind all the current World's Records trophies, and hundreds of field and portrait photographs of the greatest big game animals ever taken.

Jock O'onnor vividly recounts his adventures in hunting the animals and conveys a wealth of field-acquired knowledge of the habits of each animal and the methods the hunter used to outsmart it.

Describes how to hunt big animals.