Sam Pedder of the Council to Advance the Hunting and Shooting Sports joins Aaron Kindle to discuss the trends in hunting participation, how 2020 was an anomaly, and what we can do to keep those who returned to hunting or hunted for the first time in 2020 in our ranks and part of conservation.
*Note - Sam mentioned the contribution from excises taxes as roughly $80 million annually. The actual contribution is roughly $600 million annually. Sam knew immediately that she had misspoken and wanted a note reflecting the correct value. Thanks Sam!
Learn more here:
Council to Advance Hunting and the Shooting Sports: www.cahss.org
Council on Social Media: @thanks4hunting
Wildlife Sportfish Restoration Program (Excise Taxes): https://www.fws.gov/wsfrprograms/subpages/aboutus/aboutus1.htm
National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-Related Recreation: https://www.fws.gov/wsfrprograms/Subpages/NationalSurvey/NatSurveyIndex.htm
What is R3?: https://cahss.org/what-is-r3/
Making Mentorship Work – 2020 insights on mentoring new people: https://find.nationalr3community.org/l/644f63361d3668ee/
Show notes:
2:18 – Sam taking her brother and dog pheasant hunting
4:45 – how are hunting, fishing, and conservation linked
6:45 – what is R3 and how does it work
9:30 – how hunting helps funds wildlife management and conservation and how excise taxes work
12:25 - what are “PR” and “DJ”
13:55 – what was different about 2020
16:50 – national survey of hunting, fishing and wildlife-based recreation
18:20 – hunting and fishing participation trends
19:43 - “churn” in hunting and fishing participation
22:20 – how to be more inclusive and more inviting to get more people hunting and fishing
28:08 – access and the role it plays in keeping hunters hunting
33:55 – how to make hunting more palatable to those who don’t hunt
37:40 – volunteer in places where you don’t think people want to hunt
38:49 – overaccommodating and underestimating someone you are teaching
39:40– the outlook and what we should be doing
42:25 – promoting passion and avidity for hunting
46:20 - what the average hunter can do to help get others into hunting
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