Boone and Crockett Club: HSUS Confused About Fair Chase

By Ammoland Editor Joe Evans

MISSOULA, Mont. -(Ammoland.com)- The Boone and Crockett Club is offering a few points of clarification in response to a recent blog post by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS).

The post was aimed at local contests that are sometimes organized by sportsmen to manage the population of predator, varmint and pest species in their area. To support their position against the killing of these species HSUS cited a policy of the Boone and Crockett Club’s big game records program that does not support the unauthorized use of its scoring system for contests or competitions that directly place a bounty on game animals by awarding cash or expensive prizes.

HSUS further went on to assert that some sportsmen’s groups like the Club opposed such contests because they disregard fair chase principles. HSUS writes, “Wildlife killing contests, which target coyotes, foxes, bobcats, or even prairie dogs and pigeons, are grisly spectacles that are about as far as one can get from ethical, fair-chase hunting.”

“They got at least this part right,” said Mark Streissguth, chairman of the Club’s committee for Hunting and Conservation Ethics.

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