Sports Authority

[Adam Helmer]

Dan,

I fondly recall shopping in Dave Cook's sporting goods stores at 18th and Larimer in downtown Denver and in the shopping center out in Lakewood. I bought a few military surplus arms back in the 1960s there.

With the aging of existing hunters and not much new recruitment, our hunters' numbers are shrinking. Here in PA, there is essentially no small game hunting anymore. The game commission does stock about 200,000 pheasants annually. The hunters get 30% and the coyotes, hawks and foxes take the rest. Our deer situation is about as grim. Bottom line: young kids will not tramp all day to see no small game and will not sit for a day or two and see no deer.

Adam