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EP 067: "Hunt Fair Chase," Why It Matters

Hunt Talk Radio

Randy Newberg

Sports, Wilderness, Education, How To

4.92.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2017

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Leupold's Hunt Talk Radio, Randy is joined again by Keith Balfourd, Marketing Director of the Boone & Crockett Club.  Keith is in charge of all media communications at B&C, the historic organization formed in 1887 and the first conservation organization in America.  Recently B&C started a new initiative titled Hunt Right/Hunt Fair Chase, in an effort to knock the dust of the ethos of American hunters and their reputation for fair chase pursuit and embracing the highest ethical standards while hunting.  Hunters, since they founded the conservation movement 130 years ago, based on a fair chase ethic that was not the norm for a time of market shooting, exploitation, and belief that the resources could never be depleted.  There was much resistance at that time to the notion of aspiring to a higher standard, the same as we find today when hunters have the important discussion of what is appropriate and what does society find acceptable.  Whether we want it be or not, in the instant media world, we are all hunting ambassadors.  Our every action, every motive, every message, is viewed by others who do not have a lifetime of hunting as context by which to view.  This podcast is a discussion of revitalizing the Hunt Fair Chase standard and discussing how it applies today when technology, communications, and hunting itself are changing at a rapid pace. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey folks, Randy Newberg here, one day home in beautiful Bozeman, Montana, in between

0:07.3

Hunt was lucky enough to catch one of my good friends who is a real thinker in the world

0:15.2

of hunting, how the world looks at us as hunters, and he happened to be coming through Bozeman,

0:22.0

and I said, how lucky is it that I happen to be in town that day?

0:26.3

And that person is Keith Balford, he's the director of marketing at the Boon and Crocket

0:30.2

Club.

0:31.2

I call him the communications guy over at the Boon and Crocket Club, so Keith, I hope

0:35.0

I don't miss label you, promote you or demote you in any way, but no communications is

0:43.1

fine.

0:44.1

If I turn around and look back, that's mostly what I'm involved in.

0:49.0

So call me what you will.

0:51.3

Okay.

0:52.3

Well, thanks for being here, because once we get through this introduction here, we're

0:55.2

going to talk a lot about a new communications initiative that the Boon and Crocket Club

1:00.4

has.

1:01.4

A lot of you have probably seen it.

1:03.1

It's called the Hunt, right?

1:05.0

Hunt Fair Chase.

1:06.8

And we're going to get into the history of how that got, how that came to be, why it's

1:10.8

relevant today.

1:12.4

So many things that are going to hopefully when you're, we're done with this podcast,

1:16.9

audience, thinks about, yeah, yeah, I need to be thinking about that.

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