Any deer hunter who can take a buck at over 400 yards is a trained sniper. Deer hunters outnumber most of each of the world’s militaries.
“Deer hunters outnumber most of each of the world’s militaries.”
As I enjoy putting it:
Every year the US Unorganized Militia engages in live-fire live-target war games, constituting mobilization of the world’s largest army - and made entirely of snipers. Operating with minimal direction, each participant supplies his own sniper rifle, ammo, supporting arms, transport, camouflage, food, shelter, etc and creates impromptu fire teams or proceeds independently. Aggregating some 18,000,000 under arms, Operation Deer Season is a recurring resounding success.
And a bunch of us hunters have mostly lived our lives, and wouldn’t be that opposed to going down and taking a bunch of traitors out with us. Try me.
There are 700,000 deer hunters in PA alone, and the numbers in MI, WI and OH are staggering. Like you said, much larger than all standing armies, combined.
“Keep in mind that because many hunters participated in more than one type of hunting, the sum of all the hunters exceeds the total of 13.7 million hunters given above. It probably will come as no surprise that deer hunting is most popular with U.S. hunters, with 10.9 million participants.”
https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=deer+hunters+in+us&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8