HuntingInMaine Posted November 1, 2004 Report Share Posted November 1, 2004 [ QUOTE ] Anyone notice lately that hunting is a fading sport? [/ QUOTE ] All the more reason to take a kid hunting! I haven't noticed the numbers of hunters dropping drastically in Maine, but I did here a report about the number of licenses issued has gone down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huntn4bucks Posted November 1, 2004 Report Share Posted November 1, 2004 Re: Fading Sport According to the numbers from the state of Alabama, there is a steady decline in the number of hunting licenses being purchases each year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanH Posted November 1, 2004 Report Share Posted November 1, 2004 Re: Fading Sport What i have seen is the sport is rising! Thats about it to me! Keeps getting bigger! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FSU_Seminole Posted November 1, 2004 Report Share Posted November 1, 2004 Re: Fading Sport Glad you brought this topic up. I don't know if hunting is a fading sport. I don't think its fading here in South Carolina because its a southern tradition. But what I do know is that its becoming increasingly difficult to find land to actually hunt if you aren't loaded with money & not a member of a particular club. I disagree with the NRA about politicians being a threat to hunting. I believe the major threat to hunters is land conservation and realators. The urban sprawl is INCREDIBLE!!!!! They just built a super walmart here & totally destroyed some great deer habitat. Several realators have also destroyed great hunting property by building apartment complexs just on the outskirts of town. That sprawl is only going to go further and further out into the county. With the farming business being so tough these days alot of farmers are getting out of the business & selling their land to real estate companies. You can barely find anywhere here where there's not a club running dogs all over the land or their isn't a sub division going up or a new mobile home park going up out in a rural area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swamphunter Posted November 1, 2004 Report Share Posted November 1, 2004 Re: Fading Sport It seems like there is a lot of hunters around my area! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnf Posted November 1, 2004 Report Share Posted November 1, 2004 Re: Fading Sport We get the first Monday off from school here. All male teachers and most of the ladies hunt. Sadly, most of the ladies are better than me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathews4life Posted November 2, 2004 Report Share Posted November 2, 2004 Re: Fading Sport Its def. not faiding here. I find more and more ppl beginning to hunt. The best part of the sport is introducing a new hunter into the outdoors Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted November 2, 2004 Report Share Posted November 2, 2004 Re: Fading Sport Not declining in this state according to the numbers I have seen. Have seen a rise over the past several years in the numbers of hunters taking to the woods in the state of Tennessee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted November 2, 2004 Report Share Posted November 2, 2004 Re: Fading Sport I believe that the national numbers are showing a steady decline. Certainly, there are spots that go against the trend, particularly the more rural areas. The perception may be different also between those that are relatively new to the sport and those that have been around for a few years. I've been in the same area for 60 years and have witnessed dramatic changes in hunter participation. That includes, not only the actual numbers of hunters, but also the enthusiasm of the fewer hunters that do go out each year. We seem to be getting a lot of 1/2 day hunters. The trends seem to be following the demise of agriculture here. We used to have a lot of small family farms that provided a lot of small crop plots that were scattered around and through the woods. As these have disappeared, a lot of the areas actually got a little better for a while, but now they are reverting back to thicker forested areas. The best green areas now are people's yards and an occasional field that someone might keep mowed......Of course 95% of these are posted and owned by people who do not hunt. I also noticed that the last decade of my career, the Monday morning bull sessions about hunting experiences started to get fewer and fewer with less people even interested in talking hunting. It's a shame, but I think it is a trend that is going to be accelerating in the years ahead. Doc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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