24/7 WALL STREET • May 19, 2025
As of 2023, the latest year of available data from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, only about 15.6 million Americans were licensed hunters. Every state has a unique ecology and regulatory environment. Any number of factors related to hunting — ranging from bag limits and available hunt-able public land to diversity and abundance of game — also vary across the 50 states. Ranked on the number of hunting licenses, tags, permits, and stamps issued to out-of-state visitors in 2023, Maine is listed at #36.