Good News: Hunting License Sales UP 3.5%

National Shooting Sports Foundation says that 2009 license sales were up 3.5% in the 12 states it surveys. They speculate on why, but I don't speculate, I'm pretty sure I know why. 

First, a lot of people who used to hunt deer but haven't in a few years because they've been working so hard to make ends meet lost their jobs or at least had their hours cut back last year, and so they had more free time to hunt, and so they bought a deer license and did it again. Any ya'll fall into this group?

Second, many people who still have a job but are watching their money saw deer hunting as a way to obtain affordable protein for a year, and so along with all the out-of-work hunters, more of them bought a license and killed a little buck and doe or two and stacked the freezer. That you? 

Or did ya just buy a license like always and hunt like hell cause ya love it and can't live without it, which I suspect is the case with most of the bloggers here. comment