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The biggest decline of hunting is in New England, Rocky Mountains and the Pacific States, as per the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
How come?

States with the most resident participants.
Texas
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Wisconsin
Missouri

Instate birdwatchers
California!

State with the most armchair gun-pros
??????????

yOu tell us.

How come? JoE, I would check for states with the highest influx "carpetbaggers" from the Blue States.

It's certainly on the decline in Georgia. Every season fewer hunting licenses are sold, and the average age of the Georgia hunter increases (50 plus at the moment). I personally attribute this decline to the fact that hunting opportunities nowadays are so hard to come by. Only the most successful individuals who can afford land tracts, or those who have inherited a tract, or who have owned a large tract for a number of years have access to a place to hunt without leasing (most folks are a little shy of our public hunting areas). Every year land leases become more expensive because the amount of land that can be leased has decreased. Small game hunting always driven license sales in Georgia; and, with small game populations on the decline and few places to go, the younger crowd can easily find more exciting and less expensive things to do with their time. But if things don't change, fewer hunters equals fewer voters favorable to the rights and needs of hunters and wildlife. I often wonder if the likes of PETA will soon realize the majority of their objectives just thru attrition. In many ways I'm glad that I am unable to know the future; I've too many worries already.

The planet earth is going downhill, so enjoy the chase while you still can. Glad I was not born yesterday.

I believe topgun is absolutely correct.

"y0u tell us." Well j0e, I can tell you that Tennessee leads the nation in 'possum consumption.
Have you had yours today?

The areas where there was the largest decline in hunting have turned very liberal in their thinking and ways....I wasn't shocked mates!

Even Asgard fell. One of these days, one of these no downside metroethicists will get tired of watercress or soylent green and begin to sharpen a pointed stick in the fire if she can remember how to build one. I believe in responsibility to and for animals including, of course, myself.

jack

Have you been spending a lot of time with Crossedchisles? You're becoming increasingly difficult to understand.

I would venture to say that the downhill slippery slope began with the "New Deal" when liberties were traded for jobs, support for family and the like. Monies from the Northern populated part of the US were given in exchange for natural resources in other parts, creating jobs and the like. A chemical plant or nuclear plant entity would purchase a large tract of rural farming land and the urban sprawl would begin. When one can't pay the mortgage, or much less the taxes, on a tract of land via farming, the tract becomes residential or commerical from which subdivision and business spring up supporting the plants. The other side of the coin is management entities who consolidate large tracts of land and lease the hunting rights or sell the tract for a substantial profit to other entities. It's more about profit than the sport of hunting or the chase of the quarry. Now, heirs upon receiving property, don't even let the ink dry on the instrument before they are asking what do I have and how much can I sell it for. The same applies to guns and the like. There isn't a connection to the past, or they do not desire one. Last is the care of the elderly: much of what they acquired thru life was exchanged for payment of their care. And once again management entities can purchase the land from nursing homes or thru auctions and the vicious cycle continues. There appears to be a problem when at auction, the Nature Conservancy(which has a $ limit) is continually outbid by the private sector.

Kind Regards,

Raimey
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