[Charshooter]

I have found out through questioners that men who grew up with fathers who subsistence hunted are about four times more likely to hunt themselves than sons of sport hunters who in turn are about six times more likely to hunt as sons whose fathers do not hunt at all. This research was conducted in Texas and Louisiana in 1995

This research suggested that boys from subsistence hunting families were about 24 times more likely to maintain future generations of hunting males. It further demonstrated that females whose fathers subsistence hunted were twice as likely to hunt as those whose fathers sport hunted. At the time the questioner was taken, the population sample did not demonstrate significant percentages of female hunters to conclude that women from ant kind of hunting family other than subsistence hunters were more likely to hunt. The study did demonstrate that for men, having sport hunting fathers, increased the likelihood of a boy growing up to become a hunter by 600 percent and this likelihood was increased two to four times higher if their father was a subsistence hunter. The confounding factors that mitigated the strongest against future hunting were moving to an urban area, having a high salary job and marrying into an urban family.

[griz]

Makes sense to me. Everybody eats, and if you are shown hunting as a normal source for meat then it would seem an easy jump to do it that way yourself. It's a bigger leap to picture yourself as a sport only hunter, even if your father was.

My hope is thirty years from now to see a survey about how likely it for a kid to take up hunting if their Mother hunted. That's the future.