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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