Digest Number 253

[Guest guest]

Although I take some delight in the overall declining numbers of hunters, I

have seen many books and articles in recent years targetting young girls and

women, regaling the " sports " of hunting and fishing. They are trying to

replace the rate of decline in these formerly male-bonding activities with

females.

 

I heard on the news today that Walmart is the leading seller of guns in the

US. You could go into a store and come out with a shopping bag full of

guns. Now Walmart is requiring at least a 3-day hold until your application

for purchase has gone through a background check. It would be interesting

to know the specifics of " background check " , e.g., Does your father have a

gun? - Yes. Check #1-ok. Does your brother have a gun? - Yes. Check #2 -

ok. Does your mother have a gun? - No. Check #3 - ok - passed the test

because Mom could always borrow the other guns in the house.

 

Happy 4th everyone!

 

Donna

 

 

 

Message: 9

Wed, 3 Jul 2002 11:58:35 -0700

" Mr. Pete " <plcohon

Huge hunting drop-off

 

From Tom Stienstra's Outdoors column in the sports section of today's Chron:

 

HUGE HUNTING DROP-OFF

 

The big story at the national conference of the Outdoors Writers Association

of America last week in West Virginia was regarding the huge decline in the

number of hunters in the United States.

 

A national survey conducted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was

released at the conference that showed that the number of all hunters

declined by 7 percent in the past five years, and that small game hunting

was down 22 percent. This was explained simply: As older hunters die or

drop out of the sport, they are not being replaced by younger hunters at the

same rate.

 

[The article also mentioned that only 7% of Americans now have hunting

licenses.]

 

 

 

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