TABLE 10. Shooting Sports, Archery, Darts, and Fishing (millions
of participants)
Participants | Frequent Participants | Average age | Average years participated | % males | % change 2000–2001 | |
Target shooting, rifle [14] [16] | 14.0 | 3.2 | 30.5 | 13 | 80 | +7.7 |
Target shooting, pistol [16] | 11.4 | 2.8 | 35.6 | 14 | 78 | +9.6 |
Hunting w/ rifle or shotgun [16] | 16.7 | 5.3 | 34.0 | 17 | 87 | +1.2 |
Trap/skeet [13] | 3.9 | 1.0 | 30.8 | 11 | 84 | +2.6 |
Sporting clays [11] | 3.3 | +17.9 | ||||
Archery [16] | 6.4 | 1.6 | 23.9 | 7 | 72 | +6.7 |
Bow hunting [15] | 4.4 | 1.3 | 31.7 | 11 | 88 | 7.3 |
Darts [22] | 19.5 | 4.2 | 27.6 | 7 | 58 | +5.4 |
Fishing: | 53.1 | -1.3 | ||||
Freshwater (non-fly) [17] | 43.5 | -1.4 | ||||
Fly [13] | 6.0 | -9.1 | ||||
Saltwater [13] | 13.9 | -5.4 |