The Boone and Crockett Club, of New York and Washington, had in its constitution the following excellent article: 

“Article X. The use of steel traps, the making of large bags, the killing of game while swimming in water, or helpless in deep snow, and the unnecessary killing of females or young of any species of ruminant, shall be deemed offenses.  Any member who shall commit such offenses may be suspended, or expelled from the Club by unanimous vote of the Executive Committee.”

In 1906, this Club condemned the use of automatic shotguns in hunting as unsportsmanlike.

The Lewis and Clark Club, of Pittsburgh, has in its constitution, as Section 3 of Article 3, the following comprehensive principle: 

“The term ‘legitimate sport’ means not only the observance of local laws, but excludes all methods of taking game other than by fair stalking or still hunting.”

At the end of the constitution of this club is this declaration, and admonition: 

“Purchase and sale of Trophies.—­As the purchase of heads and horns establishes a market value, and encourages Indians and others to “shoot for sale,” often in violation of local laws and always to the detriment of the protection of game for legitimate sport, the Lewis and Clark Club condemns the purchase or the sale of the heads or horns of any game.”

In 1906 the Lewis and Clark Club condemned the use of automatic shotguns as unsportsmanlike.

The Shikar Club, of London, a club which contains all the big-game hunters of the nobility and gentry of England,[Q] and of which His Majesty King George is Honorary President, has declared the leading feature of its “Objects” in the following terms: 

“To maintain the standard of sportsmanship.  It is not squandered bullets and swollen bags which appeal to us.  The test is rather in a love of forest, mountains and desert; in acquired knowledge of the habits of animals; in the strenuous pursuit of a wary and dangerous quarry; in the instinct for a well-devised approach to a fair shooting distance; and in the patient retrieve of a wounded animal.”

[Footnote Q:  This organization contains in its list of members the most distinguished names in the modern annals of British sport and exploration.  Its honorary membership, of eight persons, contains the names of three Americans:  Theodore Roosevelt, Madison Grant and W.T.  Hornaday; and of this fact at least one person is extremely proud!]

In 1908 the Camp-Fire Club of America formally adopted, as its code of ethics, the “Sportsman’s Platform” of fifteen articles that was prepared by the writer and placed before the sportsmen of America, Great Britain and her colonial dependencies in that year.  In the book of the Club it regularly appears as follows: 

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CODE OF ETHICS
OF THE
CAMP-FIRE CLUB OF AMERICA
Proposed by Wm. T. Hornaday and adopted December 10, 1908