Award Winner 2021
CONGRATULATIONS
To our FIRST AWARD WINNER
EGOROV HUNTING AND CONSERVATION AWARD
2021
REX BAKER
Rex was born in 1941 in Chicago, Illinois and his family later moved to Kansas City where he started hunting with a slingshot. He and his three children and four grandchildren live in Atlanta, Georgia where the family invests in commercial real estate. He is fortunate that his son, Rex, Jr. runs the business. He has been hunting over sixty years and hunts about 3 months a year. He has collected over 350 species of which over most qualify for the record book and has been on over 180 safaris and shikars in over 100 countries and states. He has hunted Asia over 45 times and Africa over 40 times.
His first love is mountain hunting where he has collected 87 wild sheep and 38 species of Ibex and Chamois. He was the last American to hunt Iran before the revolution and collected the last legally importable Markhor in Pakistan in 1991, which was prior to it reopening. He was the first hunter to collect and import the Himalayan Ibex from Pakistan, was first and last to collect the Himalayan Blue Sheep in Tibet, was the first American sport hunter to hunt Guyana, Vietnam, Borneo and the Chukotka Snow Sheep in Russia. In addition to the Egorov Hunting and Conservation Award 2021 he has won the Weatherby Award, the Safari Club International’s International Hunter of the Year, the World Hunting Award, Wild Sheep Foundation’s Mountain Hall of Fame Award, the Ovis Award, the third echelon of the Ullman Award and the Golden Malek Award.
He has hunted the following invitational hunts, Arkansas Valley Invitational Dove Hunt, The One Box Pheasant Hunt, Ashem, Manitoba Sharptail Grouse Hunt, Sandhills Sharptail Grouse Hunt, and the Eads, Nebraska Mixed Bag Hunt. He finds time for many conservation and educational activities including being a founder of The Conklin Award, The Carlo Caldesi Award, the SCI Georgia Chapter and Turn In Poachers (TIP), a program that rewards people who turn in poachers. Rex is serving on many conservation organization boards and Rex serves on eight international award selection committees.
To Rex hunting is a way of life.
AWARDS:
– WEATHERBY, 2002
– SCI INTERNATIONAL HUNTER OF THE YEAR, 2001
– GOLDEN MALAK, 2004
– OVIS, 2007
– WILD SHEEP HALL OF FAME, 2010
– SCI WORLD CONSERVATION AND HUNTING, 2010
– PANTHEON, 2014
– CULMINUM MAGISTER, 2010
– CARLO CALDESI, (TWICE TOP SIX)
– OVIS SUPER 40 CAPRA SUPER 30 GRAND SLAM (3)
– OVIS WORLD SLAM (6)
– CAPRA WORLD SLAM (3)
– SCI TOP TEN TROPHY (TEN TIMES)
– OVIS/GRAND SLAM CAPRA PLATINUM, 2008
– SHIKAR SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL ASIA, (FOUR TIMES)
– EUROPE, (TWO TIMES)
– AMERICAS GEORGIA WILDLIFE FEDERATION, 1982
– SCI GA CHAPTER CROCKFORD CONSERVATION, 2003
– WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION PLATINUM AND GOLD, 2015.
Positions held by Rex Baker in international hunting organizations:
– Conklin Foundation – co-founder and judge;
– Carlo Caldesi – co-founder and judge;
– Weatherby – selection committee;
– Former TIP Committee “Surrender of Poachers” – Founder;
– SCI International Hunter 1980 – former chairman.
Congratulations to our other 2021 finalists
(In alphabetic order):
Barbara Sackman, USA
Bradford T. Black, USA
Douglas Yajko, USA
Sergey Yastrzhembskiy, Russia