I'll support a dissenting opinion to the tone of this thread.
I shoot throughout the year, usually every week, I dry fire practice (recently outfit with a laser trainer & simulator, it's F'ing great!) typically 4-5 days a week. Hunting isn't a high precision game, the rest of my shooting typically IS high precision. I do a TON of positional shooting. For me to call out a rifle randomly the night before season, run out and take a couple shots under spotlight to confirm zero and field it the next day, which is absolutely unnecessary, but common opinion like that shared in this thread is programmed into my mind. For most of my loads and firearms, I have well established data books, and I'm never far enough away from a rifle to let my fundamentals slip.
I might change my mind any given day of season and field something else. I took my 44mag SBH opening day, a buddy has his 6.5 Grendel here for some work, so I took it out a few days later. I decided to take one of my .45-70 Guide Guns out Monday this week (6th day of season). I decided to enter a match on the 17th, so I'm working on DOPE for my new 73 ELD load in one of my gas guns, shooting it over lunch hours at 600-1000yrds, and hunting with a known 60grn Partition load morning and evening...
Sure, if I'm going to field my 357/44 at 200yrds, or planning a set where I'm wanting to take a 600yrd shot, I'll be sure I'm much better practiced and prepared, but for the simple task of hunting deer at 0-200yrds with a rifle, I'm not sweating the fact I might not have shot said rifle more than a couple rounds in the last year or more.
This year's been banner for hunters bashing hunters and kicking around popular stereotypes just for the sake of having something about which to bitch. I've largely lost my interest in it.