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Printer Friendly    Text Version  Email Page Hunting Related Deaths and Injuries with 10 Year Averages YEAR LICENSES SMALL GAME BIG GAME TOTALS   SOLD DEATH INJURY DEATH INJURY AVERAGE* DEATH INJURY 1940 718,334 21 49 14 28 15.60 35 77 1950 1,020,172 7 135 18 55 21.08 25 190 1960 1,145,360 7 236 4 56 26.81 11 296 1970 1,348,765 7 153 11 59 17.04 18 212 1971* 1,071,887 4 128 11 52 18.21 15 180 1972 997,368 8 143 5 36 19.25 13 179 1973 1,055,399 6 215 12 48 26.63 18 263 1974 1,111,502 7 223 6 52 25.90 13 275 1975 1,243,063 5 182 9 40 18.99 14 222 1976 1,238,436 3 121 2 35 13.00 5 156 1977 1,241,120 5 102 6 23 10.96 11 125 1978 1,587,996 3 51 2 45 6.36 5 96 1979 1,425,599 2 66 8 19 6.66 10 85 Average 1,232,113.5 5.00 138.40 7.20 40.90 16.30 12.20 179.30 1980 1,472,502 3 78 6 29 7.88 9 107 1981 1,349,947 2 68 8 30 8.00 10 98 1982 1,385,264 3 47 9 30 6.42 12 77 1983 1,362,815 1 58 6 43 7.93 7 101 1984 1,358,599 5 47 7 29 6.47 12 76 1985 1,406,085 2 46 6 31 6.04 8 77 1986 1,532,360 5 44 4 28 5.28 9 72 1987 1,571,812 3 55 7 36 6.43 10 91 1988 1,548,890 1 43 3 48 6.13 4 91 1989 1,513,161 0 47 4 31 5.42 4 78 Average 1,450,143.5 2.50 53.30 6.00 33.50 6.60 8.50 86.80 1990 1,567,300 0 37 5 38 5.11 5 75 1991 1,507,583 0 20 5 24 3.25 5 44 1992 1,617,700 0 25 5 29 3.64 5 54 1993 1,600,000 1 31 3 29 4.00 4 60 Average 1,573,145.8 0.25 28.25 4.50 30.00 4.00 4.75 58.25 1994 1,600,000 1 23 2 18 2.75 3 41 1995 1,600,000 0 27 3 22 3.02 3 49 1996 1,700,000 1 22 1 15 2.35 2 37 1997 2,238,349 2 30 2 25 2.63 4 55 1998 2,007,931 1 30 4 17 2.34 5 47 1999 1,872,255 1 23 2 11 1.97 3 34 2000 1,537,876 1 19 6 13 2.53 7 32 2001 2,732,214 0 23 2 20 1.64 2 43 2002 2,893,621 0 16 2 18 1.24 2 34 2003 2,665,952 1 14 1 19 1.23 2 31 2004 2,182,566 0 15 2 16 1.06 2 33 2005 2,020,548 0 8 3 11 1.08 3 19

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