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Good news is: there were 11.4 million hunters in 2016. Bad news is: there were 12.5 in 2006

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A report compiled twice per decade by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows increases nationally in wildlife watching and fishing, but declines in the number of hunters.

The survey, the 13th conducted by the USFWS since 1955, showed marked increases in the numbers of Americans engaged in observing and photographing wildlife and in fishing when compared to the 2011 data, but over the past decade, the number of hunters has dropped by more than 1 million– even as the general population is on the rise.

More in my column at Guns.com.

Dopey the ducklegger

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That open-topped bucket holster, belt bullet scabbard, and Colt Police Positive, though….

John “Dopey” Perry was an early law enforcement agent for the Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Biological Survey— which after 1900 was given responsibility for enforcing the Lacey Act preventing illegal shipment or importation of wildlife and was the predecessor to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

The normally clean-cut Perry would go undercover as the hobo “Dopey” along the Chicago waterfront of the 1920’s to catch illegal wildlife smugglers (known at the time as “duckleggers”). (Photo/caption: National Conservation Training Center, USFWS)