Wise hunters make equipment lists — and check them before leaving home
HUNTING -- Computers make it easy to compile a list of all the equipment you need for a day of hunting or a week at a hunting camp.
The trick is to check it before you leave home. A list doesn't do you much good of you don't.
I have lists for my day pack, my pickup and the camp kitchen. Every year I add or subtract from from those lists.
- Ah, Aleve tablets -- they weren't on the list 20 years ago.
The other trick is to have a notebook handy to write down things as they occur to you in the field or in camp. Then be sure to you update the permanent list when you return home.
- Ah, check the propane bottle on the trailer... forgot to do that this year.
The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation has compiled an elk hunter's gear list available online.
It's quite good, but every hunter should have a personalized gear list and to-do-before-leaving list.
- Ah, my hunting buddy left chocolate under his wife's pillow before he left for elk camp last year and it turned out to be a good move! I'm adding that to my to-do list.
