The Boone and Crockett Club 
selves all unsportsmanlike proceedings and 
all needless slaughter. The Club has per- 
sistently discouraged anything tending to 
glorify the making of big bags of game, 
and it strives to discourage the killing of 
the females of any game species save under 
rigid limitations. No harm comes to any 
species from the destruction of a moderate 
number of bulls, bucks, or rams, and these 
are the legitimate objects for the hunter’s 
skill. Only legitimate methods of sport 
should be followed; torch hunting and the 
slaughter of game in deep snow or in the 
water are held to be unsportsmanlike. 
Hunting big game in the wilderness is, 
above all things, a sport for a vigorous and 
masterful people. The rifle-bearing hunter, 
whether he goes on foot or on horseback, 
whether he voyages in a canoe or travels 
with a dog-sled, must be sound of body 
and firm of mind, and must possess energy, — 
resolution, manliness, self-reliance, and capa- 
city for hardy self-help. In short, the big- ' 
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