Leica Sport Optics announces sponsorship of Boone and Crockett’s Generation Next Awards, which honors youths who recently entered a trophy in Boone and Crockett records.
Leica Sport Optics announces sponsorship of Boone and Crockett’s Generation Next Awards, which honors youths who recently entered a trophy in Boone and Crockett records.
The Generation Next Awards will be held during the Boone and Crockett Club 28th Big Game Awards, July 17-20 in Reno, Nev., at the Silver Legacy Hotel. One of North America’s longest-running celebrations of big-game conservation and management, the triennial event will feature a public exhibition of World’s Records, Top 5 trophies and records-book specimens taken by hunters age 16 and under during the past three years.
“We are pleased to participate in the development and acknowledgement of the next generation of hunters,” Terry Moore, vice president of Sport Optics for Leica, says. “We continue to be highly supportive of the big-game conservation and management efforts of the Boone and Crockett Club.”
Boone and Crockett began hosting public exhibitions of big game trophies in 1977.
“It’s an opportunity for people to see the trophies that we honor as symbols of America’s incredibly successful conservation system,” Club President Bill Demmer says. “It’s a system led and funded primarily by hunters, but it benefits all wildlife as well as all citizens who appreciate wildlife and wild places. By sponsoring our 28th Awards, Leica is helping us spread the word that America’s conservation system continues to work well today. In fact, most big game herds are healthier and world-class trophies are more plentiful now than ever before, thanks to hunters.”
The event not only offers registered attendees the opportunity to admire the trophy exhibition, but a chance to enjoy raffles, an auction featuring hunts in top trophy regions across the continent and evening awards banquets and presentations.
For more info on the Boone and Crockett Club 28th Big Game Awards, visit www.biggameawards.com.