Hunting Gear

Checking your hunting gear is an important part of any pre-hunt prep work. Your weapon should be inspected, cleaned, and tested before you take it out. Your clothes should also be checked. You’re not going out for a weekend at the spa, but if you go on a duck hunt with leaky waders, you will not find it an enjoyable experience.

Your hunting gear changes based on what is in season. You won’t take a rifle out to hunt grouse, and you won’t take a shotgun to the deer hunt. You won’t be wearing an insulated coat for a rabbit hunt in May, but you definitely want one for an elk hunt in November. Things change, and this is part of the appeal of the hunt as a microcosm of life.

Of course, not everything changes. If you have a lucky cap, you wear it. It doesn’t matter if it’s blizzard like conditions outside, or the dog days of summer, that hat goes on the hunt with you. A hunting knife, your boots, other pieces of hunting gear stays the same regardless of circumstance.