Excellent article. Modern sport hunters developed fair-chase ethics in part to distinguish themselves from commercial market hunters. Killing was no longer simply killing. It was framed as something requiring restraint, skill, discipline and character.

Also, fair chase is not a legally binding ethical standard. It is largely a voluntary code, defined and interpreted within the hunting community itself. So the question is not simply what counts as fair chase, but who gets to define fairness in the first place?