With hunting season upon us and bow season coming up, I thought this essay published by the Boone and Crocket Club was timely. It's a few pages worth your time. Especially the last section titled, Fair Chase and the Survival of Hunting. Enjoy...
"In fair chase hunting, the pursuit itself defines the experience, while the kill remains a secondary. To the seasoned hunter, a fair chase hunt that ends with no animal harvested is still a successful hunt. That is because fair chase applies the hunter’s acquired knowledge of the animal against the animal’s own superior senses and evasive capability. Once this has happened; hunting happens, whether a kill is made or not. Shortchanging, manipulating, or otherwise compromising this hunt equation lessens the significance of the experience, and potentially undermines the defensibility of the hunt."
http://www.boone-crockett.org/pdf/On_Fair_Chase.pdf
"In fair chase hunting, the pursuit itself defines the experience, while the kill remains a secondary. To the seasoned hunter, a fair chase hunt that ends with no animal harvested is still a successful hunt. That is because fair chase applies the hunter’s acquired knowledge of the animal against the animal’s own superior senses and evasive capability. Once this has happened; hunting happens, whether a kill is made or not. Shortchanging, manipulating, or otherwise compromising this hunt equation lessens the significance of the experience, and potentially undermines the defensibility of the hunt."
http://www.boone-crockett.org/pdf/On_Fair_Chase.pdf
