Number of Women Hunters Increasing
 

Number of Female Hunters Increasing

April 1, 2008 (National)


According to a survey by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), more women, especially younger women, are participating in hunting.

The 2006 National Survey of Hunting, Fishing and Wildlife-Associated Recreation produced by the FWS indicated that while the total number of hunters decreased 11 percent between 1991 and 2006, the number of women taking to the sport is actually increasing.

Women make up about nine percent of the 12.5 million hunters in the U.S., showing a slight increase, according to the survey.

More interestingly, the survey showed that 304,000 girls ages 6 to 15 hunted from 2001 through 2006, which was a 50 percent increase over the period of 1991 through 1996.

The FWS collected data for the National Survey of Hunting, Fishing and Wildlife-Associated Recreation through the U.S. Census Bureau. This survey has been produced since 1955, and it is considered one of the most comprehensive and oldest of its kind.

Thats cool

My wife was a new hunter in 2007. Trying to get her to be a new bowhunter this year.

Good luck, Jay! We have an IBEP class scheduled for the first weekend of May at BPS in Katy. I sure wish I had taken the class when I first started bowhunting.

That is good news

Thats awesome!

Looks like my wife will soon be a statistic in 08 she is now itching to bag a white tail deer and an Axis deer this year. I was invited on an axis hunt and she said not without her. Go figure last year she said I was nut's, I bought her a bow and shes's hooked and I love it and her.

Nothing but good can come of this. Glad to see it. ;)