More Women Hunting…
Picture: Heidi Jones, Kamloops, B.C., Canada!
After our last post about women in the outdoors, Cory and I were amazed by the response we recieved from so many women out there. I find lately that I’m really more aware of articles, pictures, websites and TV shows about women in the outdoors and have my wife watching Vicki Cianciarulo from Archer’s Choice and Tiffany Lakoski from The Crush and Getting Close on a regular basis on WildTV.
Today I ran across an article written by Marty Roney for USA Today, this article had some more interesting facts about women in the outdoors that I’ve included below. Also in the article was a fantastic quote from Sylvia Payne, Director of the Alabama BOW Program (Becoming an Outdoors Woman)
“If you teach a man to hunt, he goes hunting. If you teach a woman to hunt, the entire family goes hunting.”
Here is an exerpt from the same article in USA Today…
“According to a recent National Survey of Hunting, Fishing and Wildlife Associated Recreation done by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, there has been an 11% decline in the number of hunters nationwide from 1991 to 2006.
As a partial response to that decline, many states are trying to attract more women to the sport, and the effort is showing signs of success.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife survey published in 2007 shows that the number of female hunters, about 10% of the nation’s 12.5 million hunters, has grown slightly since 1991, but it showed significant growth among the youngest female hunters.
According to the survey, 304,000 girls ages 6 to 15 hunted from 2001 through 2006 — a 50% increase in the number of young girls hunting from 1991 through 1996.”
I’ve also been searching a bunch of different sites and thought I’d share a few of them with all of you.
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I'm Cory Jmaeff (Jammer), I began hunting as soon as I could walk. Spending countless hours in the footsteps of accomplished hunters in my family. I would love to thank my beautiful wife and 2 kids for allowing me to spend as much time outdoors as I do!
Shawn Wudrich brings a lifetime of hunting and ten years of guiding and outfitting experience to Antler Outdoors. With a passion for hunting the mountains and having had the experience of hunting all over North America, Shawn's personality and knowledge of hunting shines through on camera.
5 Responses to “More Women Hunting…”
Terri Lee Pocernich said...
I love that quote! How very true. Here are some more women’s hunting sites.
http://www.CampWildGirls.com
http://www.womensoutdoornews.com
http://www.thewoma.com (women’s outdoor media assoc.)
http://www.TeamHuntress.com
Jammer said...
Hi Terri Lee, Shawn Wudrich here from Antler Outdoors. Thank you for
posting a comment and checking out our site. We’ve really only had the
site up and running since May but are really surprised with the amount of
traffic we’re generating. We started the site as a way of keeping people
up to speed with the progress of our upcoming TV show, but has become a
full time job on it’s own.
Cory and I are both really amazed by the number of women hunting in the
U.S. and would really like to see those numbers climb up here in Canada.
If you have any ideas to help us promote women in the outdoors on our
site, we’d love hear it. We both really like the content and set up of
your site and would be interested in posting some of your thoughts and
content on our site with full credit going to campwildgirls.
Let us know what you think,
Thanks,
Shawn
woody said...
It really is one of the best quotes I’ve seen in the hunting world. We really believe that the family that hunts together, stays together. Thank you for your response Terri Lee, and thank you for the links to those great sites.
pamela said...
glad that you got a big one there, i was hoping to get drawed for the elk hunt this yr but no luck.which was a big dissapointment. but i still get out and look anyway lol.