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For at least the last five years if not longer I've constantly seen hunting and fishing gear targeted at females and yet I've never once run into a lone woman in the field or on the water. Heck never even seen a woman in camo gassing up before dawn on her way out or shouldering a shotgun at the local gun shop. So what's up with this? I bet 20 percent of the gear in catalogs is camo hunting gear aimed at females. Is this just a last ditch dying effort by outdoor companies to replace the shrinking numbers of men buying licenses? For probably a decade now around 50% of the students in Montana's hunter-safety classes (mandatory for anybody under 18 to hunt here) have been female. Have known a bunch of Montana women who not only hunt, but hunt on their own. My wife has been doing so for almost 40 years. Back when I was traveling a lot to hunt, would often come home to find that she'd killed a deer or two and packed them home. But even if I'm not gone somewhere, she and I often hunt separately, partly because she prefers hunting whitetails on riverbottoms and I prefer mule deer in the hills. Mule Deer; Top of the morning to you John, I hope the weather and the season has been cooperating for you all so far. As I've mentioned before here, our BC Hunter Safety classes have been running about 50:50 for at least a decade and a few years back I had the first class with more female students. My wife hunted up until our girls were born and both girls hunted for a few years, the eldest still active and is in fact my usual hunting partner if anyone goes along with me. We do see a few females out either solo or without males or say a mom with her kids hunting here, but yes many groups we see are mixed gender. Speaking personally, I might be a bit of an anomaly in that I prefer hunting solo, though as I'm pushing 60 it's now an adventure of a different kind some days, you know? I hope that female participation in hunting continues in the direction it's going as it's needed for a number of reasons, to my way of thinking anyways. All the best to you and Eileen and good luck on your hunts. Dwayne
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Hi Dwayne,
Good to read your comment, and hope you are all doing well!
Have been around women who hunt in Montana for a long time. One was my paternal grandmother, who not only hunted on her own, but homesteaded by herself in the central part of the state right after WWI. She'd loved to hunt since she she grew up on a farm in southern Minnesota, and ended up marrying the Norwegian guy who took up the homestead next to hers. He wasn't much of a hunter, so she kept going out on her own--and long after he died during the Depression.
Some of the posts on this thread kind of remind me of a comment Jack O'Connor made in one of his books--about people who drove through Idaho on main highways without seeing any elk, then declared there weren't any elk in Idaho! One thing I have noticed about many women who hunt on their own is they prefer to hunt elsewhere than most male hunters--which may be why those women are often successful. My grandmother, for instance, was apparently the first person to hike to the top of a lone mountain near the homestead....
Good hunting, John
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.” John Steinbeck
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There was a TV show a couple of years ago with a bolode BABE who hunted all over the world including dangerous game witha double rifle. I believe she was also an outfitter in Colorado. She could shoot !
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For at least the last five years if not longer I've constantly seen hunting and fishing gear targeted at females and yet I've never once run into a lone woman in the field or on the water. Heck never even seen a woman in camo gassing up before dawn on her way out or shouldering a shotgun at the local gun shop. So what's up with this? I bet 20 percent of the gear in catalogs is camo hunting gear aimed at females. Is this just a last ditch dying effort by outdoor companies to replace the shrinking numbers of men buying licenses? Not targeted just to the women. You know there is a segment of the male population which prefers that pink camo.
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There's a young woman who bowhunts (with a compound, not a crossbow!) in the state park where I hunt. Her husband hunts another spot about 1/2 mile away.
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Perfect, but can she iron as well? I wish I could have found something like that years ago, hell with ironing. Mb
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My Dad was one of Ten. All 7 boys were hunters..2 of the 3 girls were.
Dad and 1 other boy has passed along with one of the girls.
My Aunt Theresa and aunt Patricia.......They are Hunters. love them to death.
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My mother was a hunter. I think she hunted before it was cool for women to hunt and she could have gave a chit less. I have some pictures of a Colorado trip for mule deer in 1948. It was her and a lady she worked with. They drove out in an old Chevrolet sedan. Gasp, no four wheel drive and no cell phones. No camo or blaze. They rented horses and off they went. Nice bucks shot with some type of bolt action rifles.
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