BowHunting.Net Published This Fine Story 1st. Here is part of it with a link. A comprehensive, scientific-based system of recording and comparing North American big game specimen was formulated in three years (from 1949 to 1952). More accurately, it was the product of five decades of thought, theory, flawed attempts, research and prodding—interrupted by two World Wars, but progressing with the same trajectory as the maturing conservation movement in North America.
We all know how the conservation movement that began in the late years of the 1800s and continued to develop in the early 20th Century with game laws, the Forest System, and the code of the sportsman, took several decades to really start showing progress. The Boone and Crockett Club’s interest in records can be traced to 1895 and the 1st Annual Sportsmen’s Exposition in New York City with Theodore Roosevelt, George Bird Grinnell and Archibald Rogers serving as competition judges. Later, in 1902 a Committee on Game Measurements was appointed and included Roosevelt, Rogers and Caspar Whitney. Nothing appeared to result from that effort until a previously unknown pocket-sized booklet, dated 1906, was discovered about six years ago in 2008. The booklet attempted to create written instructions for measuring game.
In the teens and twenties of the 1900s, the outlook for most North American big game species remained very bleak. To that end, a team of Boone and Crockett Club members, primarily William Hornaday and Madison Grant, established the National Collection of Heads and Horns at the Bronx Zoo in New York City. The collection was “dedicated to the vanishing big game animals of the world.” The collection opened in 1922 and spurred a social interest in the developing conservation movement and spurred a scientific need to catalog these specimen in some record.
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