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And quality habitat is at the lowest it’s ever been. Competing ideas are at play in the hunting industry and community. Here’s more. Over the past few years, the hunting community has jumped full sail into what it’s calling the R3 movement. “R3” stands for recruitment, retention, and reactivation of hunters. And it’s an effort to boost the number of hunters in myriad ways, mostly due to the idea that hunter numbers are in decline. It’s an interesting idea, but it bears a closer look. While hunters are on the decline per capita, the actual number of hunters on the American...