Women Document Their Hunting Accomplishments with SCI’s Women Go Hunting Program

Vanessa Falk Lindner has hunted around the world, experiencing numerous cultures, crossing breathtaking landscapes, and pursuing species unknown to most people. Over the last three years, she has entered more than 100 species in the Women Go Hunting Challenge and discovered 90 of them qualified as entries in the SCI Record Book. While she has been hunting since a young girl, she had never thought to enter her trophies in the Record Book until joining SCI’s Women Go Hunting initiative. The process of recognizing each animal she had taken and all the places she had visited to do it made her realize just how much she has accomplished and experienced as a hunter. Here’s her story and her message to other women hunters:

“I grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, running around the woods with my older brother and our BB guns, hunting chipmunks and squirrels. My first big game hunt was for whitetail deer when I was 11, and I was hooked! My family took our first trip to Africa when I was 16, and I have been back seven times since.

“I had never entered an animal into the Record Book and was so happy to have this Women Go Hunting Challenge force me to have all my trophies documented. It was quite educational looking through the Record Book to learn about each species and see the details on where and when they were taken, what outfitter assisted, and who took each trophy.

“The Record Book is a great research tool to plan your next hunt and get an idea for the quality and size of animal. I encourage every hunter to keep up with documenting his or her hunting accomplishments as they go and don’t be like me, who waited to do it all at one time. It was a huge undertaking, but I am happy to contribute and be a part of the largest catalog of species in the world. Happy Hunting!”  

Learn more about SCI’s Women Go Hunting initiative here. Women hunters are encouraged to share their hunting photos and stories on their hunting journey with other women here.