Laura Beth Fowler, the name is not new in the world of ‘hunting.’ She is eighteen-year-old lass from McKenzie, Tennessee.

Three years back, she took up shooting and now is an associate of one of the few all-girl trap-shooting teams in the country.

At four in the morning, she along with her coach and associates rushes into the woods for shooting birds. She says,

‘It’s a bunch of fun. And it’s just so beautiful, being in the woods.’

Hunting is not a new trend among women in the US. According to Mark Damian Duda, executive director of Responsive Management,

‘During the 1980s, we saw a pretty good increase in women hunting, which flattened out in the 1990s. And now there seems to be an increase in the past three or four years.’

Recent study postulates that nearly 3 m women hunt out of which 16% hunters are in the US. In addition, The National Shooting Sports Foundation estimates that Americans spend $2.1 billion on firearms and ammunition each year.

The fastest-growing age groups are women aged 18 to 24, followed by those aged 35 to 44.

Some are of the view that hunting relaxes them. While other coins that, it is a way to spend time with husband or a boyfriend.

However, for Fowler, it’s a way to relax with friends, get closer to nature and enhancing new skill.

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