How many hunters are there?

Let's take a look at Texas...

Let's look at a gun toting state like Texas, where no one would argue that pussies out-number the trigger-happy birth certificate conpiracy nuts, much less the hunters.

"In cooperation with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), Southwick Associates took a preliminary look into the Texas license database."

"TPWD records show 1.03 million hunting licenses were sold in FY 2003. By tracking the license buying habit of individual hunters over the past five years, we learned only one of two people (48 percent) who bought a Texas hunting license at least once in the last five years actually bought one in the most recent year. Only one-quarter of Texas hunters bought a license in each of the last five years.

"This indicates that 1.03 million licenses were sold to a potential customer base of 2.15 million people."

Texas has 24 million people, of which 2.15 million hunters make up only 8% of the population.

A few states have more; many states have less. Texas is undoubtedly higher than average, so the hunting population of Americas is undoubtedly les than 8%... unless the Texan reputation for rough and tough is full of crap.