Wall Street Journalのインスタグラム(wsj) - 12月22日 00時29分

One of the pandemic’s big winners: hunting.⁠⠀
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Following decades of decline brought on by demographic and lifestyle changes, the sport rebounded this year thanks to seasoned hunters spending more time in the woods, rekindled interest among lapsed hunters and a wave of first-timers like Rebecca Vasquez, 27, pictured here with her boyfriend Brian Zweifel on his family’s land in Verona, Wis.⁠⠀
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Vasquez, a forester for the State of Wisconsin, had long wanted to take up hunting but never found the time to learn to shoot or sit in the woods for days. Her boyfriend no longer had his yearly hunting companions but he wanted to get back out. Lockdown meant there wasn’t anybody else to go with so Vasquez got a new rifle as an early Christmas present and stepped in.⁠⠀
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“All the ducks were in a row this year,” she said.⁠⠀
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Hunting license sales are up more than 12% nationwide from last year, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a firearms trade group. The National Rifle Association, in recent years best known for its political fights about concealed handguns and assault-style rifles, has seen an uptick in membership because of the renewed interest in hunting, according to a group official, and the resurgence is giving it a chance to broaden its base. ⁠⠀
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Shooting advocacy groups lobbied hard last spring for government officials to deem gun stores essential businesses in order to avoid Covid-related shutdowns, which helped keep sales up. ⁠⠀
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Read more at the link in our bio.⁠⠀
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