Fair Chase

Published quarterly, Fair Chase magazine is how we communicate with our members and associates about our ongoing efforts that benefit conservation and hunting. It also contains some seriously entertaining hunting stories. Each issue is packed with timely and insightful articles on conservation,...

The Club has long been recognized for its leadership in hunting and conservation ethics. The Club’s Fair Chase statement was the cornerstone of the establishment of game laws, which included regulated hunting seasons, bag limits, and the abolishment of commercial market hunting practices at the turn of the century. To this day it promotes ethical, fair chase hunting, which is a critical part of a broader conservation ethic.

FAIR CHASE, as defined by the Boone and Crockett Club, is the ethical, sportsmanlike, and lawful pursuit and taking of any free-ranging wild game animal in a manner that does not give the hunter an improper or unfair advantage over the game animals. THE FAIR CHASE HUNTER: Knows and obeys the law,...

SCIENCE BLASTS By John F. Organ, B&C Professional Member Gordon Batcheller still hunting for moose in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. Excerpt from Fall 2019 issue of Fair Chase In the last issue of Fair Chase , I wrote about how we may transform the way we communicate the results of hunting...

Effective Date: August 1, 2019 Situational Overview Baiting is a broad term that generally refers to the use of natural or unnatural food attractants placed in a specific location by hunters to attract and draw in a targeted game species for harvest. Though considered a longstanding and traditional...

Craig Boddington (left) joins B&C's Director of Big Game Records Justin Spring, and incoming Big Game Records chairman, Mike Opitz on the stage as they present Gregory Smith with the Fair Chase Award. The name Boone and Crockett is most often associated with Theodore Roosevelt, conservation,...

Animal rights groups attempting to end all public hunting is nothing new. Their most recent efforts have focused on banning local contests that encourage hunters to help reduce coyote overpopulation. Some states are now considering these bans primarily based on a question of fair chase. Animal...

Fair Chase , the official publication of the Boone and Crockett Club announced the results of the second annual Swarovski trophy field photo competition. All trophies that were accepted in 2010 were eligible and automatically entered into the contest. Judges fore the contest included Fair Chase...

The Boone and Crockett Club, the oldest hunter-conservationist organization in North America, has released a comprehensive essay on fair chase, the first and longest standing honor code in North American hunting. "Millions of hunters worldwide practice fair chase, many without even knowing this...

The Boone and Crockett Club, Blaser USA and Leupold and Stevens are pleased to announce the winner of the Fair Chase Essay Contest conducted online last fall. "We suspected this would be popular, but had no idea just how popular," said Keith Balfourd, the Club's director of marketing. Simply put,...