Hunting Ethics

TECHNOLOGY: Please Enjoy Responsibly

What if the hunter success rate increases to 30 percent? The population can only sustain 10 elk harvested, but if there is 30 percent success, that means 30 elk are harvested from that popula- tion with 100 hunters out.

Just Eat It

Recently my wife and I attended a documentary on the disturbing amount of food waste in our country and the world, titled, “Just Eat It.” I didn’t see a connection with hunting ethics until I was in a discussion at our recent annual meeting of the Boone and Crockett Club in Nashville. Many members were lamenting the bad press that hunters get, i.e., “Cecil the lion,” and the fact that study after study has shown that only about 20 percent of the non-hunting public approves of trophy hunting, whereas 70-80 percent or more approve of legal hunting if its purpose is to produce food and/or to enhance wildlife management.

Can the Antis Learn Anything from Fair Chase?

By Keith Balfourd, B&C Professional Member Excerpt from the Fall 2018 issue of Fair Chase Good question. For the sake of this column, the word “antis” refers to those who are vocally...

Why We Hunt

The Ethics of Sport Hunting By Theodore R. Vitali, B&C Professional Member Excerpt from the Spring 2018 issue of Fair Chase Sport hunting differs from subsistence and sustenance hunti...

Gearing Down

THE ETHICS OF FAIR CHASEBy Mark StreissguthB&C Regular Member During a coffee break recently, I was thumbing through some outdoor magazines. Between the hunting stories and how-to pieces, I found...

Do More Hunting Stuff This Year

THE ETHICS OF FAIR CHASE By Daniel A. Pedrotti Jr. B&C Regular Member Chairman, Hunter Ethics Sub-Committee Excerpt from Fair Chase, Spring 2017 Here we are at the beginning of a b...

The Hunt Equation: When a Hunt is Not a Hunt

THE ETHICS OF FAIR CHASEBy Daniel A. Pedrotti Jr.B&C Regular MemberChairman, Hunter Ethics Sub-CommitteeI had the opportunity to share a campfire recently with one of my relatives, Lifetime Associ...

Deer Breeders Versus The World

THE ETHICS OF FAIR CHASEBy Daniel A. Pedrotti Jr.B&C Regular MemberChairman, Hunter Ethics Sub-CommitteeI recently attended a meeting of the Texas Parks and Wild-life (TPW) Commission, which sets ...

B&C Is Not Your Daddy!

THE ETHICS OF FAIR CHASEBy Daniel A. Pedrotti Jr.B&C Regular MemberChairman, Hunter Ethics Sub-CommitteeWhen you consider the phrase fair chase literally, it is nonsense. There is nothing fair abo...

Common Ground

THE ETHICS OF FAIR CHASE By Daniel A. Pedrotti Jr. B&C Regular Member Chairman, Hunter Ethics Sub-Committee Excerpt from Fair Chase, Spring 2016 We all know that sometimes the word...