I think there's a trend for less hunters......I think where it gets confused as it being the opposite is due to the fact that there has been a decline in habitat combined with the increased lease prices driving the average man out of the game and forcing more and more folks who used to lease land to look to public hunting. .....JMO
“Buy the ticket, take the ride...And if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind….well, maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion…..Tune in, freak out, get beaten”....Hunter S. Thompson