News — Hunting
The number of hunters is actually on the rise
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...
It seems everywhere around my neighborhood and town hunters are getting ready for the opening day of deer gun season in just a week and are completing gear inspection
s. Deer trucks can be seen at the tire shops and gas stations. Lines are forming at the outdoor supply stores to buy last minute stuff for camp and maybe an extra box of ammo if they can find any. I see trailers with ATVs loaded sitting in driveways getting ready to head out. In fact, my next door neighbor had his ATV loaded up last weekend. I walked over to chat about his prep for hunting to discover he found out the battery on his machine was dead from being in summer storage. Worse yet, he found out the...