I'm a member of NSSF, the National Shooting Sports Foundation. They send reports to the membership frequently. In a recent mailing were accident statistics of various sporting activities. You are far, far more likely to have a life-changing injury accident from almost any other sport than you are from hunting. That includes billiards, tennis, golf, and cheerleading. The most complete annual data is from 2002. That year there were an estimated 20.6 million active hunters in the U.S. with 805 non-fatal injury accidents reported. For the same year, 24.5 million golfers reported 37,131 injury accidents and 4.1 million cheerleaders reported 28,414 injury accidents. Amazingly, 34.2 million pool players had 5,672 injury accidents. Basketball and bicycling lead the statistics with over 500,000 injury accidents each in 2002.
Care for a game of pool? Heck no! That's too dangerous, I'm going hunting.
Best regards,
David
