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

[ ] = average days of participation 2001