What Many Hunters Prefer

[blake]

NEWS!

Industry Snapshot

Southwick Associates has announced the brands and products hunters and target shooters preferred most in 2009. This list has been compiled from the 44,734 internet-based surveys completed by hunters and target shooters who volunteered to participate last year in HunterSurvey.com and TargetshootingSurvey.com polls and 34,185 internet-based surveys.

In 2009, top brands included:

Shooting & Hunting

• Top rifle brand: Remington (16.5% of all purchases)
• Top shotgun brand: Remington (22% of all purchases)
• Top muzzleloader brand: Thompson Center (29.5% of all purchases)
• Top handgun brand: Sturm Ruger (16.6% of all purchases)
• Top scope for firearms: Bushnell (17.3% of all purchases)
• Top rifle ammunition brand: Remington (28.8% of all purchases)
• Top shotgun ammunition brand: Winchester (32.0% of all purchases)
• Top handgun ammunition brand: Winchester (22.0% of all purchases)
• Top blackpowder brand: Pyrodex (351.5% of all purchases)
• Top balls, bullets, or shot brand: Hornady (26.2% of all purchases)
• Top bow brand: BowTech (14.8% of all purchases)
• Top arrow brand: Easton (30.3% of all purchases)
• Top fletching brand: Bohning (30.3% of all purchases)
• Top broadhead brand: Muzzy (25.3% of all purchases)
• Top archery target brand: The Block (22.3% of all purchases)
• Top decoy brand: Flambeau (15.7% of all purchases)
• Top game call brand: Primos (34.8% of all purchases)
• Top reloading bullet brand: Hornady (30.2% of all purchases)
• Top reloading primer brand: CCI (36.0% of all purchases)
• Top reloading powder brand: Hodgdon (36.5% of all purchases)
• Top binocular brand: Bushnell (19.5% of all purchases)
• Top holster brand: Uncle Mikes (21.4% of all purchases)
• Top knife brand: Buck (16.7% of all purchases)
• Top scent or scent covering brand: Scent-A-Way (24.5% of all purchases)
• Top shooting target brand: Shoot-N-C (38.9% of all purchases)
• Top clay brand: White Flyer (34.3% of all purchases)

Other interesting facts from the HunterSurvey 2009 annual report: The busiest month for purchasing for hunting was November, for Target Shooting was June, and for self-defense was February.

This post is for informational purposes only.

 

[IowaDave]

• Top blackpowder brand: Pyrodex (351.5% of all purchases)

Looks like Pyrodex has the market cornered!!

 

[deeraddict]

Top bow surprised me. Don't get me wrong, not saying anything bad about Bowtech, i like them and am looking at a Diamond by Bowtech for my son. Just seems that everyone and their brother shoots a Matthews. (Except me, I shoot a Hoyt.)

 

[JakeWym]

Interesting read. A few of those surprised me as well.

 

[bowtech021]

I figured hoyt would be the top.

 

[blake]

Looks like Pyrodex has the market cornered!!

It was a cut and paste article, I didn't enter the data????

 

[Hardcorehunter]

Thanks for the post.

 

[archery95]

The top bow surprised me to.I would have guessed Bowtech would be around #4 in sales or usage behind Hoyt, Matthews and PSE.Not to mention Parker and Bear.
The top arrows didn't surprise me a whole lot but I would guess there is still a lot of people using aluminum arrows so Easton has a corner on that market.There are tons of Beamon and Carbon Impact users.