Good reading when I was younger was " How to Bag the Biggest Buck of your Life" written by Larry Benoit. I have a copy of it and read the equipment section before I decide to buy any hunting clothes brings me back to earth sort of a antidote for Cabelas catalogs. I agree with everything he says in this book with the exception of rifles ...he hunts in the Northeast and uses a practical rifle for that area which is a Remington Pump in 30-06 . He also like BJ uses wool clothing extensively...the Woolrich and Johnson Mill kind. The older I get the more I am getting conservative and will not ever walk into any Elk Woods ever again without my 338 , I don't know how I did without it in the Past.