Wisconsin Hunters: 8th Largest Army In The World

While I was in Wisconsin earlier in the week, I checked the family's mailbox for my latest issue of MidWest Outdoors, a monthly magazine that focuses on fishing, hunting, and camping in the Midwest.

From one of my favorite sections, "Shot Shots and Small Catches," for October:

There will be over 600,000 hunters this year in the state of Wisconsin. Wisconsin's hunters will become the eighth largest army in the world.

According to an August 2012 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service survey entitled 2011 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation, 13.7 million Americans, or 6 percent of the population 16 years old or older, went hunting last year.

13.7 million American hunters? Ladies and gentlemen, meet the largest army in the world.

"A gun behind every blade of grass" is the likely reason no foreign nation has ever attempted to invade America in modern history. 

Furthermore, while overall hunting participation increased 5 percent from 2001 to 2011, the survey noted participation has jumped 9 percent since 2006.

So much for the death of hunting you hear so much about in the mainstream media.

What? The Brady campers are making it up?

You can read the entire survey on the U.S. Department of the Interior website here (.pdf document)

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