Logan Winklepleck, New Glarus, was recently honored by the Boone and Crockett Club, the nation's most prestigious conservation and big game hunting organization. Logan was recognized for his typical whitetail deer at Boone and Crockett Club's Jack Steele Parker Generation Next Youth Banquet in Springfield, Missouri, on August 2, 2019.

Every three years, the finest North American big game trophies entered and accepted into Boone and Crockett Club's Records of North American Big Game program are assembled for public display, followed by a banquet and award presentations. This year's display was within the new Wonders of Wildlife National Museum & Aquarium in Springfield.

The Boone and Crockett Club's records program originated in 1906 as means of recording details on big game species thought to be disappearing because of rampant habitat loss and unregulated commercial and sport hunting. Science-based conservation efforts-led and funded by license-buying sportsmen-recovered these species from vanishing to flourishing. Boone and Crockett records remain a classic gauge of successful habitat and wildlife management programs.

In addition to its prestigious history and tradition, the Boone and Crockett scoring system is strongly associated with the highest tenets of Fair Chase and hunting ethics.

Logan's typical whitetail deer scored 163-5/8 Boone and Crockett points. As a young person under the age of sixteen when they harvested their record-book trophy, the Club gave special recognition at a banquet sponsored by Federal Ammunition to Logan, along with 46 other young sportsmen with Boone and Crockett qualifying trophies. It will be listed, with 4,462 other outstanding trophies, in the Boone and Crockett Club's 30th Big Game Awards book available this fall.