Guiding Principles, Measuring Instructions, Minimums, and Measurers
Guiding Principles on Hunting and Conservation, click here. (PDF)
Rules Concerning Fenced Animals, click here(PDF)
Rowland Ward’s Measuring Handbook, click here. (PDF)
List of Official Rowland Ward measurers click here. (PDF) Interactive Map here.
Minimums/Records Africa and methods used, click here. (PDF)
Minimums North and South America and methods used, click here. (PDF)
Minimums Europe, Asia, and South Pacific and methods used, click here. (PDF)
Rowland Ward measurer application click here. (PDF)
Method Forms
Please click on a Method name to download the preferred Method.
Method 1-a Rocky Mountain, Roosevelt, and Tule Elk; Alshansk, Izubur/Manchurian, Siberian, and Tian Shan Marals.
Method 1-b Asian and European Red Deer. Includes all red deer from Europe, Asia Minor (Turkey), the entire Caucasus Mountains, and all of Asia. Also includes introduced red deer from the South Pacific and South America
Method 1-d White-Tailed Deer, All Varieties
Method 1-e Mule and Black-Tailed Deer
Method 1-f Deer with 3×3 or 4×4 Typical Frames. Includes Axis or Chital, Bawean, Calamian, Hog, Manchurian Roe, Pampas, Rusa, Sambar, Siberian Roe, Sika Deer, and Visayan Deer
Method 1-g European Roe Deer
Method 1-h Deer without Crowning: Barasingha/Swamp, Eld’s, Huemul, Marsh, Schomburgk’s, Taruca, and White-Lipped Deer
Method 1-i Pere David Deer
Method 1-j Muntjac, Brocket, and Pudu
Method 2 Caribou and Reindeer
Method 3 European and Persian Fallow
Method 4-a Palmated Moose, Giant Deer (Irish Elk)
Method 4-b Unpalmated (Cervine) Moose
Method 5 All Pigs and Hippopotami
Method 6 Walrus, Water Deer, and Musk Deer
Method 7-a Antelopes of Africa and Asia including blackbuck and addax. (For the African Spiral Horned antelope see Method 8).
Method 7-b Chamois; Chiltan Wild Goat (sometimes called Markhor); Goral; Ibex (True and Spanish); Pasang/Bezoar/Sindh; Rocky Mountain Goat; Serow; Tahr; Western and Central Turs
Method 7-c Eastern Turs, Aoudads, and Bharal (Blue Sheep)
Method 8 Spiral-Horned Antelopes (Giant and Common Eland; Bongo; Mountain and Southern Nyala; Sitatunga; Bushbuck; Greater and Lesser Kudu)
Method 9 Pronghorn Antelope
Method 10 European, American, and Asian Wild Cattle and Takin. American bison, European Bison or Wisent, Water Buffalo, Tamarau, Anoa, Gaur, Gayal, Banteng, Kouprey, Saola, Yak, and Takin
Method 11 Muskox
Method 12-a Cape, Nile, and Central African Buffaloes
Method 12-b West African Buffaloes and Dwarf Buffaloes
Method 13-a Cookson’s, White-Bearded, and Nyasaland Wildebeests; Brindled Gnu
Method 13-b White-tailed Gnu / Black Wildebeest
Method 14 All True Wild Sheep (Ovis)
Method 15 Markhor
Method 16 Rhinoceroses from Africa and Asia
Method 17 African and Asian Elephants and Mammoths
Method 18 Skulls of All Cats, Chevrotains, Hyenas, Javelinas (Peccaries), Wolverines, and Wolves
Method 19 All Crocodilians; Nile, Salt Water, Mugger (Marsh) Crocodiles and American Alligator