Boone and Crockett is a club that recognizes two categories of whitetail deer: the common whitetail and the Coues’ deer. Boone and Crockett scores are used to give recognition to exceptional North American big-game animals, and are an indicator of overall population health quantified by the evaluation of a secondary sex characteristic, such as antlers. The Boone and Crockett Club is a non-profit organization of avid big-game hunters founded in 1887 by Theodore Roosevelt. The most commonly used scoring system for giving recognition to exceptional North American big-game animals is the Boone and Crockett (B&C) system. Here are some key points about the Boone and Crockett scoring system:
- The Boone and Crockett scoring system is impartial, honest, and fair.
- The system is used to compare animals and talk about big bucks.
- The Boone and Crockett club publishes one official record book that all hunters can use to register and document their bucks score.
- The average Boone and Crockett-class buck has main beams measuring 25.63 inches.
- Main beam lengths account for 30 percent of the score.
- The next-most important factor is mass.
- The average Boone and Crockett trophy has a spread credit of 19.75 inches, second-points measuring 10.10 inches, and third points measuring 10.12 inches.
- The Boone and Crockett Scoring system has become the "gold standard" for measuring white-tailed deer antlers.
In summary, Boone and Crockett is a club that recognizes two categories of whitetail deer and uses a scoring system to give recognition to exceptional North American big-game animals. The Boone and Crockett scoring system is used to compare animals and talk about big bucks, and is the "gold standard" for measuring white-tailed deer antlers.
