Steven Rinella

in cities like New York.

Have you ever heard of the Boone and Crockett Club?

No.

Okay.

Like Theodore Roosevelt was the first president of the Boone and Crockett Club.

When people talk about, you ever hear someone's kill a buck and they say it was a 180 inch whitetail?

What they're usually talking about is a scoring system.

developed by the Boone and Crockett scoring system.

It's a way to measure a deer's skull or measure a deer's antler growth.

Boone and Crockett Club, all these other organizations start out and they start trying to regulate harvest.

And they'll come in and say, like in New York City, there'll be a ban on selling certain wild meats.

And then they come up with a thing called the Lacey Act, which gave it some teeth, where if you broke, anytime you break a state's law and cross a state line, it becomes a federal problem.

Because you could have states, when they're trying to save wildlife, a state might come in and say, no more market hunting.

You can't kill ducks.

You know, you can't kill ducks with punt guns anymore and sell it, but they don't enforce it.

So then with the Lacey Act, it became like, if you're down and you're in Chesapeake Bay and you're commercially killing ducks with a punt gun, but then you take them to New York and sell them,

you now have a federal violation.

And so that is when they were really able to start curbing the market hunters.

There's a great irony with calling the Boone and Crockett Club, the Boone and Crockett Club, because it takes its name from Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett.

The Boone and Crockett Club and people that came out of that organization that influenced that organization was instrumental