Boone and Crockett Club: HSUS Confused About Fair Chase

The Boone and Crockett Club is offering a few points of clarification in response to a recent blog post by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). The post was aimed at local contests that are sometimes organized by sportsmen to manage the population of predator, varmint and pest species in their area.

To support their position against the killing of these species HSUS cited a policy of the Boone and Crockett Club's big game records program that does not support the unauthorized use of its scoring system for contests or competitions that directly place a bounty on game animals by awarding cash or expensive prizes.