Steven Rinella

So hunters are kind of hard to count.

If I go and buy a license in my home state of Montana, and we have a little fish shack in Alaska, if I buy a license in Alaska, I just got counted twice.

I'm on the list in two places.

The one thing that's really easy to count is if you want to hunt migratory waterfowl, you have to buy a federal duck stamp.

People could go buy that duck stamp for no reason or just collectors or whatever, but by and large, you can look at how many federal duck stamps were sold

How many guys hunted ducks because they have to buy this federal stamp?

And they'll sell a million of those stamps.

Meanwhile, 13, 14 million people will hunt deer.

Deer's the most hunted thing.

Morning doves are the most harvested thing.

Dude, come on.

Yeah, it's like suburban deer and stuff.

I mean, it's a very complex issue.

It's not just the lack of people willing to hunt them.

Like anyone out there, if you got a bunch of deer,

you have 10 acres, 20 acres, 100 acres, and you got a bunch of deer bugging you, and you put a sign up that says, hunters, please inquire, the day's not going to be through, and you're going to have someone banging on your door.

You don't meet hunters who will tell you, I can't even scratch the surface of all the properties I got to hunt.

They're dying to hunt.

People are dying to hunt.

The suburban deer problem is self-made.