Leica Focuses on Youth at Boone and Crockett Event
Boone and Crockett Club 02.27.13
Leica Sport Optics is the newest in a growing list of sponsors for one of North America’s longest-running celebrations of big-game conservation and management—the Boone and Crockett Club 28th Big Game Awards, July 17-20 in Reno, Nev.
The triennial event will be held at the Silver Legacy Hotel in Reno. It features a public exhibition of World’s Records, Top 5 trophies and records-book specimens taken by hunters age 16 and under during the past three years.
“Boone and Crockett began hosting public exhibitions of big game trophies in 1947,” said Club President Bill Demmer. “It’s an opportunity for people to see the trophies that we honor as symbols of America’s incredibly successful conservation system. It’s a system led and funded primarily by hunters, but it benefits all wildlife as well as all citizens who appreciate wildlife and wild places.”
Leica Sport Optics is sponsoring the event’s Generation Next Awards, which honors youths who recently entered a trophy in Boone and Crockett records.
“We’re pleased to participate in the development and acknowledgment of the next generation of hunters, and continue to be highly supportive of the big-game conservation and management efforts of the Boone and Crockett Club,” noted Terry Moore, vice president of sport optics for Leica.
Demmer added, “By sponsoring our 28th Awards, Leica is helping us spread the word that America’s conservation system continues to work well today. In fact, most big game herds are healthier and world-class trophies are more plentiful now than ever before, thanks to hunters.”
In addition to the trophy exhibition, the event offers registered attendees a chance to enjoy raffles, an auction featuring hunts in top trophy regions across the continent and evening awards banquets and presentations.
More info on the Boone and Crockett Club 28th Big Game Awards is available at www.biggameawards.com.
In October, the Club will release its newest record book, 28th Big Game Awards. The next edition in its popular and collectible book series will feature nearly 5,000 new Boone and Crockett qualifying trophies entered and accepted during the 28th awards period (2010-2012) in 38 different categories of North American big game, from whitetail to walrus.
Boone and Crockett Club began keeping trophy records in 1906 as a way of detailing species once headed for extinction. Today, trophy data reflect population health and habitat quality. Biologists compare and contrast records to improve local management strategies as well as state and federal wildlife polices.
To date, the growing list of sponsors for the Boone and Crockett Club 28th Big Game Awards, July 17-20 in Reno, includes Buck Knives, Boyt Harness Co., Hornady, Leica Sport Optics, Leupold, Realtree and Schnee’s.
