About TGR Over thirty-five years ago Joe Burkett, DVM, began to collect data to support an innovative trophy score-keeping system. Ten years later he introduced his Burkett System to the trophy collecting, record keeping world. Personal circumstances forced Dr. Burkett to turn his beloved system, to which he had devoted years of research, to dedicated subscribers who have continued to maintain the records. After the Exotic Wildlife Association acquired the system, and several name changes later, it became known as Trophy Game Records of the World (TGR). Circumstances notwithstanding, this trophy record keeping system remains the only one that honors the game animal for the trophy it has produced. It is the only system based on solid scientific evidence and geometric formulas. It is an entirely objective system. The basis of this system is the same today as it was twenty-five years ago when it was introduced. Thousands of hunters have shown their support of this system by entering trophies into its record book.   For many EWA members the incentive to propagate exotic wildlife is simply aesthetic. Conservation of these animals, and sufficient habitat for them to continue to exist are our primary goals. Traditionally, hunting has provided one of the strongest economic justifications for raising and breeding non-native game. In the late 1980's EWA acquired the Trophy Game Records of the World. Under TGR's scoring system each animal is measured on it's own merits, with no deductions for lack of symmetry, and is given full credit for the trophy status it has attained. With our emphasis on hunting ethics, the TGR is yet another reason to join the EWA.   Click here for more info. Click here To order your copy of the current TGR record book!.