The Boone and Crockett Club 



some members of the Scientific Council. The New 

 York Zoological Society has been and is a child of 

 the Boone and Crockett Club. 



IV. 



WATER-KILLING DEER. 



Long before the Club's establishment, efforts 

 had been made to put an end to the barbarous 

 practice of killing deer in the water in the 

 Adirondacks. It was then the custom to put 

 hounds upon the track of deer and drive them until 

 they took to the lakes in the effort to throw off 

 the hounds. When this took place, men rowed up 

 to the animal and blew out its brains or cut its 

 throat with a knife, or beat it to death with a club. 

 This method of killing was utterly condemned by 

 the Boone and Crockett Club, whose constitution, 

 in its fifth article declares, that "the term 'fair 

 chase' shall not be held to include killing bear, 

 wolf or cougar in traps, nor 'fire hunting,' nor 

 'crusting' moose, elk or deer in deep snow, nor 

 killing game from a boat while it is swimming in 

 the water." Article X declares that the killing of 

 game while it is swimming in the water is an 



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