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My daughter in law, Leeanne, who is a great cook and a chef, fixed the wild turkey breast  for my birthday dinner. She did a great job and the food was outstanding! The menu was: Wild turkey breast done on the grill, wild rice, carrots & squash and a sausage gravy, homemade butternut squash soup made by my wife and bread.  What a fall feast!  

This past Thursday Oct.23, I had the opportunity to head to the woods and try my luck at hunting some fall turkey and squirrel.   The weather for the day was to be blue sky and lots of sunshine, in the high fifties, a great day to be in the woods. I meet up with my friend who chose to hunt the hard woods so he drove further in and I parked at the gate, I was to hunt the ridge. I parked and quickly got my kit together and picked up my fowler and headed in. After crossing what is called the sand bridge I stopped and took in the woods in its full fall color and thanked god for the day and then primed my flintlock. We were to try for turkeys until lunch time then squirrel in the late afternoon. I wanted to hunt the two- track that follows the ridge because at different times that I have been out there I have run in to the birds also walking it. As I walked slowly along scanning the trail ahead I didn’t go far when a big fox squirrel run up a tree and began to chew me out for disruptin...

This is the ax set that I have made up and donated for the upcoming Schoenbrunn Village Trade Fair Raffle. For the past three years they have sold raffle tickets for Ken N e tting Fowler and other donated Items.  Ken Netting, New England fowler in 62 caliber, 48" round barrel made by Ken, Jim Chambers flint lock, stocked in walnut with brass engraved furniture. LOP is 13 1/2" weight about 6 1/2 pounds. Stock is relief carved and barrel also has some engraving.  Tickets are for sale, at $5 each or 3 for $10. They can be purchased directly from Jack by sending a check for the amount wanted made out to John Johnson at 1795 Lexview Circle, Mansfield, Ohio 44907. Please supply a self stamped envelope and stubs will be returned to the purchaser. Drawing will be at 3pm on October 19th. Winner need not be present to win. For more info, Check out their web site at http://www.schoenbrunnvillagefair.org/