https://sundayeveningreview.com/categories/hunting/Recent content in Hunting on Sunday Evening ReviewHugoen-usTue, 06 Oct 2026 06:00:00 -0500https://sundayeveningreview.com/living/bow-season-after-sixty/Tue, 06 Oct 2026 06:00:00 -0500https://sundayeveningreview.com/living/bow-season-after-sixty/<p>The alarm is set for four-thirty but I&rsquo;m awake by four. This is a change that happened somewhere around sixty and hasn&rsquo;t reversed itself. My body has decided that the hour before I need to be up is the right time to be completely alert, and it doesn&rsquo;t consult me about this.</p> <p>I lie there a few minutes, taking inventory in the dark. Then I&rsquo;m up, moving quiet through the kitchen, letting the coffee make its noise while I dress in the corner of the mudroom. There&rsquo;s a sequence to getting dressed for October mornings in Michigan that I&rsquo;ve been refining for nearly fifty years. Not ritual. That word gets attached to outdoor experiences the way bunting gets attached to a stage, making something ordinary look more significant than it is. Just the right order: Merino base layer because synthetics hold scent even after washing; fleece over that; shell on top if the forecast says wind. The shell stays in the barn between hunts, away from cooking smells and everything else that doesn&rsquo;t belong in a deer stand.</p>