My hunting partners realize I have an obsessive compulsive personality disorder that involves elk hunting related in some form year round. Most guys have a life I guess. I'm only about half-way to that 40 mark.
There is no off season. Every weekend is -
scout and scout again
deploy trail cams
hunt a leftover tag (I'll even hunt real low success tags just because I like the hunt as much as the kill)
gun shows
volunteer with the youth hunting programs
hunt sheds
shoot at the gun club
hunt antelope or sheep (in large part to prepare for elk)
collect trail cams
service equipment
contact landowners
local elk banquet
elk camp Vegas
state elk rendezvous
campfire rendezvous
visit a new shooting range
and I don't have reloading in that mix.
