But, I find the online research and shopping is the easy part…it’s fun for a gear-junky like me to spend hours on a laptop researching the minute details of every piece of hunting gear. The hard part is having the discipline to spend the time making sure you and your gear are as prepared as possible for the hunt. I’m talking range time, target practice, testing your gear before you’re out in the field trying to beat an incoming hailstorm…this is the stuff that’s harder to do. The temptation is to leave your rifle in the safe or bow in the closet, pull it out a couple weeks before season to check the zero, and then hit the hills. Honestly, I think that’s a recipe for disaster, and that’s because I’m smack-dab in the middle of that disaster right now…