Boone and Crockett Hunt Right Initiative Acknowledges November 14 as the Birth of Fair Chase

The Boone and Crockett Club's initiative, Hunt Right; Hunt Fair Chase today walked back 115 years to a Mississippi swamp to celebrate the birth of Fair Chase. It was here that a U.S. president set the tone for how hunting was to be conducted from that day forward. Our 26th president…

and Club founder, Theodore Roosevelt, traveled from the White House on November 14, 1902, to Mississippi to settle a border dispute between Mississippi and neighboring Louisiana. Knowing Roosevelt was an avid sportsman, his host arranged a black bear hunt for the president during his visit.