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Deer season for many is simply a holiday that doesn’t land on a typical calendar or give you a free day off away from work. Hunters anticipate this time of year so much that we plan for it throughout the summer, buying gear and prepping for when the season is finally upon us.

My opportunity to review this product couldn’t have come at a better time: I was just about to depart on our yearly week-long family hunting trip up in Northern Maine, and I hadn’t cleaned my gun thoroughly since January.

I have to admit—and I feel like I should lead with this—that I’ve never sharpened a knife before. Sure, I’ve had the same hunting knife for the last six years or so (a birthday present), and don’t get me wrong I love the thing almost as much as my rifle, but maybe I have been a tad naïve in assuming that it would stay razor sharp after the years of cutting limbs in the brush, cutting wedges of cheese for lunch in the field, and skinning deer.

Presented by High Adventure Company: Gallo, gallo! Cast quickly!” yelled Santos.

Presented by High Adventure Company: The late Harry Middleton (1949-1993) was a good friend, but I must also acknowledge he was and remains as enigmatic and elusive as a wild brown trout in the Great Smokies.

There’s always something to say about a pioneer. That person, or business, that goes out and blazes a trail for the rest of the world to follow is worth taking note of. Lewis and Clark were pioneers. Jim Bridger was a pioneer. All those folks at Plymouth Rock, too.

Presented by High Adventure Company: The Au Sable springs from Otsego and Roscommon and then consolidates itself near Grayling before venturing forth on its long ramble home to Lake Huron. Along its tangled edges the dark forest rises deep and verdant in random stands of popple and maple and birch. Rich, young pin oaks fill the myriad patches of overgrown clearcut, along with all the other new growth that together provide habitat for the grouse that brought Betsy and me here for so many years on our annual October odyssey.

Let’s just start by making something clear: The name “Bowgrunter Plus” on A-Way’s buck grunt call is more than a little misleading. It makes you feel as though this is the perfect buck grunt to use while you’re out bow hunting.

Presented by High Adventure Company: Peter Grant turned off the road where the graveled surface ended. This spot had once been occupied by a house trailer, but the owners had long since towed it away, much to the betterment of the countryside. Now the only view was of woods in every direction.

The old adage goes that good things come to those who wait. For Jack Middleton, that saying rang true this year.