12-4 SS Hunger Games

Hunger games and archery. The first hunger games movie prompted an increase in the interest in archery... Particularly on the part of young women. I remember calling Sportsman's Warehouse after the release of the original movie and one of the sales associates said that sales had gone wild in archery, particularly for young women. Now, the second movie is out entitled Hunger Games: Catching Fire. I called Tom Hahn at the Sportsman's Warehouse store in Meridian, Idaho and his reaction didn't lead me to believe that the sequel had lit any fires under the buying public. "We have a lot of product that matches the movie and I am not seeing anything from that. I am still seeing the flow in archery sales from parents and grandparents who did it before Versus the movie. Okay, so much for Meridian, Idaho. So I went to the Sportsman's Warehouse in Puyallup, Washington and got sales associate Jeris Hobert who told me a different story: "We have actually noticed a trend since the first movie came out. It is just continuing. The second movie, we are still seeing a large volume of people who are interested in it from the movie and it is just kind of, the movie came out just in time to keep the flow going. And that is a good thing. A very good thing, yes." So the moral of the story? If you want your kids to go hunting, let's make more hunting movies.