For quite some time various hunter industry leaders and professionals have been saying that the professional hunter divisions are in trouble. At many of the big circuit shows you don’t really notice the problem without doing a “then and now” comparison.

At the average A-rated and many of the AA-rated shows it’s often difficult to split the first and second year green divisions, and often the four-foot divisions don’t fill at all.

This isn’t new, but a condition that has appeared as our sport has changed.