i usually do as bowhunter does...put them in a drawer or on the shelf and play them all year when i get bored..this year my vest never moved from where i put it after the season lol. calls and shells and the whole 9yds still in it. i never do that. must be the busier life im running now...but ill break the calls out and run them before the season...as well as turn out a bunch more strikers..