[LeRoySmith]

Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive

Lol! that they would.

Interestingly enough though, one of the fastest-growing sports in high school is.....skeet shooting! As in kids with 12-gauge shotguns pulverizing clay targets on the fly. I think it is THE fastest H.S. sport in the state I used to call home (Minnesota). But it is not just Minnesota, but nationwide.

This, from sports events media group dot com:

As one of the fastest-growing sports among young people, disciplines such as skeet and trap shooting are finding a whole new generation of advocates.

Need an example? Take the 2023 Minnesota Trapshooting Championships in Alexandria, Minn., last summer, which hosted more than 8,500 teens representing 240 high school teams from across the state.

That’s a huge leap from the 30 participants who made up three Minnesota high school teams during the 2007-08 school year. Since then, the sport has seen a dramatic increase in the number of schools at the high school and college levels adding it as an extra-curricular activity.

Fast forward to 2021-22, there were 49,337 participants on 1,647 high school, college, and homeschool teams, says the USA High School Clay Target League. The league’s annual impact report shows an addition of 13,815 new student-athletes participating in league activities in 2023, along with 198 new teams added.

Next year, the USA Clay Target League anticipates 53,000 student-athletes on its rolls as part of its goal to reach 100,000 registered student-athletes by the end of 2025.

Lots of good things happen when people aren't fearful of guns.

That's great, I had no idea. I really enjoyed skeet and sporting clays some years ago.