More people than ever before spend their time indoors, glued to their phones and iPads. 

Meanwhile, America is rife with opportunities for motivated outdoorsmen. 

But jaws dropped after Boone and Crockett just stamped certification on this new world record.

This world record ruling has hunters all across the West Coast on high alert

Every hunter dreams of bagging a massive buck or bull elk. 

Many go their entire lives without achieving this lofty goal, always looking for the next piece of gear or strategy to help them track down the beast of their dreams. 

But for Timothy Carpenter, a hunting guide from California, this dream came true after bagging a humongous Roosevelt’s bull elk. 

Carpenter spotted the massive beast while on a hunt in Humboldt County, California, before successfully dropping it with his rifle. 

The legendary Boone & Crockett Club, founded by Theodore Roosevelt no less, put the rack’s dry measurement at 439 7/8 inches earlier this year. 

However, the official measurement went up to 455 2/8 inches in Boone & Crockett’s official judgment, which became public last week. 

Per Boone & Crockett Club rules, a potential world-beating score must be verified by either an Awards Program Judges panel or a Special Judges Panel.

And when the empaneled B&C judges met for the verification and remeasured, Carpenter had to be pleased as they adjusted the final score upwards.

BOONE & CROCKETT 455-inch Roosevelt ELK IS CERTIFIED NEW WORLD RECORD & beat the B old record by 30 inches, YEEHAW! A C freaking dinosaur! pic.twitter.com/i9K2OBxKXM

— Texan (@GunLiceN4Hrs) May 4, 2024

This shatters the previous Roosevelt’s elk world record of 419 6/8 from a British Columbian hunter named Rick Bailey obtained in 2015. 

Kyle Lehr, the Boone & Crockett Club’s director of big game records, addressed the new world record, saying, “The main objective of any panel, whether it be a Special Judges Panel or Awards Judges Panel, is to confirm the accepted entry score.”

He added, “Sometimes differences in measurements are discovered through this process, and corrections need to be made. In the case of Mr. Carpenter’s Roosevelt’s elk, those differences resulted in an increase in score.”

Timothy Carpenter addressed his world record Roosevelt’s, saying, “It was probably from a combination of great genetics, perfect environmental conditions, and lots of late rain providing great forage for finishing out antler growth.”

“It is very rewarding to be part of any successful Roosevelt’s elk hunt.  It is that much more rewarding when we are able to take animals that are mature—or even past their prime—and are Boone & Crockett animals,” the exuberant hunter said. 

Roosevelt’s elk live all across the American Northwest, ranging from northern California all the way up to Alaska. 

Finding a single animal this massive in such a wide, and largely densely-forested range, is finding the proverbial needle in a haystack to say the least. 

Timothy Carpenter just gave hunters another reason to get back in the woods

Fewer people feel motivated to hunt in some parts of the country these days due to a whole host of reasons. 

But Carpenter’s world record Roosevelt’s demonstrates that massive beasts still linger in the American Northwest. 

With any hope, his kill will inspire hunters to get outdoors and try their best to bag their own Roosevelt’s elk. 

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