Sport Hunting/shooting

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• $5.6 billion for wild life conservation since 1939
• An average hunter spends about $1638 every year on the sport
• Through license sales and excise taxes on equipment, hunters and anglers pay for most fish and wildlife conservation programs.

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• The contribution for 2009 is a record nearly $336 million, according to the fish and wildlife service.
• • Americans hunt 228 million days per year.
• More than 38 million Americans hunt and fish.
• Hunters and anglers support more jobs nationwide than the number of people employed by Wal-Mart.

• According to research, 72 percent more women are hunting with firearms today than just five years ago. And 50 percent more women are now target shooting.• Firearms are involved in less than 1% of all accidental fatalities. More Americans are killed in accidents involving vending machines than guns.

Hunting gear sales are growing faster than all other sporting goods categories.

Hunters and shooters have paid more than $5 billion in excise taxes since 1939.

More Americans hunt and shoot than play golf.



Firearms are involved in less than 1% of all accidental fatalities. More Americans are killed in accidents involving vending machines than guns.