Americans hunt a combined 282 million days per year. That’s an average of 21 days per hunter. An average hunter spends $2,484 every year on the sport. Some animals are illegal to hunt. More than 38 million Americans hunt and fish.
First, comes the expenses. The average hunter will spend around $2,484 every year on the sport. Based off of a preliminary report put out by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, estimates that roughly 90 million citizens, or 38 percent of the population age 16 or older, spent an estimated $145 billion on wildlife activities in the U.S. last year. Americans annually buy more than one billion shot shells. There has been a 30 percent increase of total money spent on hunting over the past five years.
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