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Talking about the popularity of shooting, here are some facts which you may find useful and may be interesting to discuss with your politicians when they start appearing on your doorsteps before the election.

Hope you find some of this interesting.    http://basc.org.uk/media-centre/shooting-the-facts-for-journalists/

In the UK today…  (BASC source)

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  • Shooters spend £2.5 billion each year on goods and services
  • Shooting supports the equivalent of 74,000 full time jobs
  • Shooting is worth £2 billion to the UK economy (GVA)
  • Shooting is involved in the management of two-thirds of the rural land area
  • There are 4 million (est) airgun owners – of which 1.6 m shoot live quarry
  • 600,000 people in the UK shoot live quarry, clay pigeons or targets
  • Shoot providers spend nearly £250 million a year on conservation
  • Shooters spend 3.9 million work days on conservation – that’s the equivalent of 16,000 full-time jobs
  • Two million hectares are actively managed for conservation as a result of shooting

About the survey:

We all know that shooting is important. We know it’s good for the economy and the environment - and we all know from first-hand experience how the social aspects of shooting are beneficial to us and our local community.

But how can we prove it?

16 shooting and countryside organisations commissioned a comprehensive study to ascertain exactly what shooting is worth.

The survey - carried out by Cambridge-based Public and Corporate Economic Consultants (PACEC) - was to assess the economic, environmental and social benefits of shooting sports.

This independent and statistically robust report gives us the latest facts and figures. It demonstrates that shooting is involved in the management of most of the countryside, actively shaping the world around us with hundreds of millions of pounds of privately funded conservation effort. It records the hundreds of thousands of people who find their recreation and sport in the countryside and on the shooting ranges and clay grounds across the country. It shows, for the first time, the social benefits of an active recreation enjoyed by people of all ages and backgrounds.

The data collected were based on a 12- month period between August 2012 and July 2013.

A total of 16,234 questionnaires were completed, making this the most comprehensive research into the value of shooting ever undertaken in the United Kingdom.
 
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...in 2008 there were 2,752 18 hole golf courses in the UK and rising, not including practice facilities and driving ranges. World wide there was over 35,122 18 hole courses and rising, not including practice facilities and driving ranges

 
Quick oogle research states the most popular participation sport in uk is ........... swimming.

This can't be right surely. Not even a sport just self preservation

 
Whatever sport is the most popular, shooting will always struggle for numbers (compared to that of other sports) due to the cost of it. My local ground charges 35p per clay. If I shoot on my own, I can burn through £40 in an 40-50 mins just practicing (and that is nothing to what a lot of people on here spend weekly).... and that does not include my cartridges. Simple fact that shooting will always be a minority participation sport due to the cost

ps probably massive thread drift but only read the last page or so.... l

 
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Whatever sport is the most popular, shooting will always struggle for numbers (compared to that of other sports) due to the cost of it. My local ground charges 35p per clay. If I shoot on my own, I can burn through £40 in an 40-50 mins just practicing (and that is nothing to what a lot of people on here spend weekly).... and that does not include my cartridges. Simple fact that shooting will always be a minority participation sport due to the cost.
When I was shooting 10m air rifle competitively, the cost of 500 target quality pellets was around £9 ie last year!  And a fill of air was negligible for my Feinwerkbau pre-charged pneumatic (PCP). And it is an Olympic sport.  Bull is 1mm at 10m standing unsupported.  Certainly challenging and inexpensive.  Also Hunter Field Target has a popular following and is probably even less expensive!

Sold my target rifle to buy my lad around 5,000 cartridges.... :crazy:  - so I take your point Nick.

 
Quick oogle research states the most popular participation sport in uk is ........... swimming.
This can't be right surely. Not even a sport just self preservation
Just done the same and one site says swimming, another says football so I dare say if you went down the list of sites all sports would be mentioned!

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Yes Phil 87.6% Of All Statistics are made up. This has been statistically proven to be correct

 
Click on link, scroll down to 1.2 and you will see sport England figures show fishing as the 16th most popular participant sport in England...

http://www.resources.anglingresearch.org.uk/sites/resources.anglingresearch.org.uk/files/Substance_AnglingReport_Section1_Sport.pdf
I was thinking globally, but a wee bit surprised fishing is as low as 16th in England. I remember seeing figures from the USA a few years ago where fishing was almost double that of golf and a $45bn market!!

Everyday is a school day.

 
I don't want to dispute James info from a reliable source but I am suprised as I have always been lead to believe fishing was the biggest participation sport (I use the word sport loosely)

But one thing for sure a darned sight more golfers than us.

Ps

I don't like golf it's silly.
. It's only silly if your sh*te at it Ian!! You get to a tidy level then you will realise how much skill is needed!!
 
golf is weird, walk miles,, spend a fortune,, hit the ball as few times as you can,, the less you hit, the better you are ?  well, clay shooting seems to be the other end of the spectrum,,  :biggrin:  same skill, different need.

 

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