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For most big game hunters, the chance to square your sights on a 400-inch elk is an once-in-a-lifetime thrill. Every time an elk hunter sends a bugle echoing through the hills he's hoping to get closer to the ultimate Wapiti record breaker. To help all you bone collectors get pumped up for this season, we've compiled eight examples of Boone & Crockett elk. Enjoy. (photos: Boone & Crockett Club)

If you want to shoot a whopper deer, elk or bear, you have to be hunting in an area where such critters exist. Seems like a simple concept, doesn’t it? And yet most hunters do not take the time to do the research necessary to tell them where the odds are best at scoring big.

Looking to tag a really big bruin? Here are the best states to do so.

Here’s a look at the state of whitetail populations in the northernmost regions of North America. According to our research, this year could be the best deer season Canada has seen in decades.

14-year-old Hannah Helmer may be joining the record books. Last month, Helmer killed an elk that could soon be named the all-time Nebraska state record.

A special Boone and Crockett Club judges panel has declared a bighorn sheep from Montana as the new world's record with a final score of 216-3/8 inches, surpassing the previous world-record ram by nearly 7 inches.

TheQuestion: "What’s the best spot to kill a monster whitetail on a week-long trip?"

Wildlife biologists say the 10-1/2-year old bighorn ram that died of natural causes in Alberta could be the B&C Club's new world record.