Whats a history book without historians?
Authors of A Whitetail Retrospective include the B&C’s long-time Director of Big Game Records, the current Chairman of the Records Committee, along with other Records Committee Members, and Official Measurers — all with extensive first-hand knowledge in the history of the B&C scoring system and the whitetail deer, as well as historic B&C whitetail trophies. What’s a history book without maps? To know where are we are going, you must see where we’ve been. Another special chapter in A Whitetail Retrospective is a geographic look at one of our greatest conservation success stories. The whitetail deer once numbered in the millions, but were reduced to a mere 500,000 animals by the early 1900s. It is now back in numbers believed to be greater than when European settlers first landing in the New World. The chapter reveals this recovery with detailed maps separated by decade, which highlights the top trophy-producing counties across the country from 1830 through 1979. PLUS… Learn the histo
