FOUNDED DECEMBER, 1887.
Article I.
This Club shall be known as the Boone and Crockett Club.
Article II.
The objects of the Club shall be--
1. To promote manly sport with the rifle.
2. To promote travel and exploration in the wild and unknown, or but partially known, portions of the country.
3. To work for the preservation of the large game of this country, and, so far as possible, to further legislation for that purpose, and to a.s.sist in enforcing the existing laws.
4. To promote inquiry into, and to record observations on the habits and natural history of, the various wild animals.
5. To bring about among the members the interchange of opinions and ideas on hunting, travel and exploration; on the various kinds of hunting-rifles; on the haunts of game animals, etc.
Article III.
No one shall be eligible for membership who shall not have killed with the rifle in fair chase, by still-hunting or otherwise, at least one individual of one of the various kinds of American large game.
Article IV.
Under the head of American large game are included the following animals: Bear, buffalo (bison), mountain sheep, caribou, cougar, musk-ox, white goat, elk (wapiti), wolf (not coyote), p.r.o.nghorn antelope, moose and deer.
Article V.
The term "fair chase" shall not be held to include killing bear, wolf or cougar in traps, nor "fire-hunting," nor "crusting" moose, elk or deer in deep snow, nor killing game from a boat while it is swimming in the water.
Article VI.
This Club shall consist of not more than one hundred regular members, and of such a.s.sociate and honorary members as may be elected.
Article VII.
The Committee on Admissions shall consist of the President and Secretary and the Chairman of the Executive Committee. In voting for regular members, six blackb.a.l.l.s shall exclude. In voting for a.s.sociate and honorary members, ten blackb.a.l.l.s shall exclude. Candidates for regular membership who are at the same time a.s.sociate members shall be voted upon before any other.
Article VIII.
The Club shall hold one fixed meeting a year, to be held the second Wednesday in January, and to be called the annual meeting.
Article IX.
This Const.i.tution shall not be changed, save by a four-fifths vote of the members present.