Originally Posted by
salukipv1
I can't help but think we have more hunters...
the population keeps increasing, so while % of population hunting may decrease I think the actual number is going to increase or remain the same.
I also can't help but see as the organic crowd becomes more informed, plenty of them enjoy shooting guns at ranges etc... will evolve to possibly hunting an organic animal for meat.
Your thoughts are really incorrect because all you have to do is look at the stats that each state puts out to see what we're talking about. A good example is here in MI where at one time almost 800,000 hit the woods for our deer season. Now it's closer to 700,000 and a big part of it is lack of hunter recruitment and all of the private land being leased out, which leaves only public land for many to hunt on. The first couple times a new person has negative experiences with crowding and not seeing any game they go back to their computer and play hunting games they buy at Cabelas.