Perhaps not everyone knows it, but about 5% of hunting lovers in Italy are women who break down prejudices and fully live their passion. A fascinating world to discover, especially if you think about the future and constant increase, in the years to come, of female hunters.
It is not clear how things historically went, but from a mythological past in which the divinity of hunting was a woman, we have reached a present in which women are almost totally banned from hunting.
Behind the almost total absence of the female element in the hunting world, however, there is a considerable ferment, just think that until a few months ago the female hunters highlighted by Adnkronos were about 30 thousand, ready to storm one of the last strongholds all male.
It is the National Hunting and Nature Committee that has estimated at 30 the Italian women who today love hunting as much as men, and carry it out with all the passion, professionalism and respect required. Beyond the advertising events, the meetings of women hunters, the well-organized meetings, there is a large group of women, sportsmen, nature lovers, hunting enthusiasts who grew up with a passion for hunting at home.
Because the woman hunter, just like the man, has not become: basically hunters are born. On the part of women with a passion for hunting, one can simply find greater persistence, a stronger stubbornness, because convincing their father, uncle, or grandfather to be led hunting, from an early age, does not have to not having been easy at all.
The data offered by the organizers of hunting trips are clear, the phenomenon is certainly on the rise, given that with their persistence and perseverance, women hunters are slowly breaking down any prejudice.
After all, those few who have been interviewed to date confirm it: “as soon as the hunters, especially the older ones, understand that you know perfectly well what you are doing and what you say, they welcome you into the hunting group without reservations. And the bond of friendship that is created between hunters, be they men or women, is sincere and simple, helpful and supportive ”.
At the base remains an immeasurable passion for the woods, for challenges, for nature, for dogs that are friends and excellent hunting companions, the excellent organizational skills on the part of women, and the need, fundamental also for hunters, to understand their limits. If in Italy huntresses represent about 5% of hunting enthusiasts, the numbers are even more substantial in other European countries and in America. In the beautiful country, however, it is certain that the greatest concentration of women carrying a rifle is in the north and in the center, but there is no doubt that they will soon increase in quantity and commitment in the south as well.
Every day sites pop up, and groups of female hunters who monopolize fringes of the most popular social networks or the most popular forums, in which not only their experiences are laid bare, but we talk about weapons, techniques and times, exactly. as happens in men's spaces.
And not infrequently it turns out that having a hunter man next to him, be it a father, a grandfather or a husband, has helped many women hunters to keep their passion alive, to rediscover the charm of the group, the love for the environment and for the status of hunters, engaged not only during the hunting period, but especially during the stop period, with environmental protection and restoration operations.