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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/

Simple leather bag, it is 5 ½” at the opening and flares out to almost 7” and is 7” deep with a 1 1/2” gusset tapering to almost the top of the bag. There is a 5 ½” wide by 3 ½” deep inside pocket. The strap is 1 ¼” wide, tapered down to fit a 1” iron buckle. It should hold all that you need to shoot your fowler or rifle.

Just finished up this axe set. This small axe is great to used to do all the small chores on a Trek or in camp, like cutting kindling and game prep. It's a much lighter alternative to a belt axe. This axe is made to be carried over the shoulder. The sheath is made from 3-4oz. veg tan leather, hand stitched and dyed a dark brown and treated with bee's wax. The strap is adjustable with a brass buckle and will fit an average to tall person. The head is forged from medium carbon steel with a slight hammered finish and it has an oval eye. The size is about 4 1/4" long and has a 2" in cutting edge. The axe is fitted with a 12" hickory handle. **SOLD **

Just finished up making up these belt bags. All three are hand sewn and made to last. Bag #1   **SOLD** Bag #1 Made from 3oz. veg tanned leather, hand sewn, inside flap only, lined with blue striped linen small out side pocket.Dyed Dark brown. Bag size,  5" wide X  5" deep 1 1/4" wide gusset. Bag #2  FOR SALE  **SOLD** Bag #2 Made from 3oz. veg tanned leather, hand sewn, two small inside pocket, Dyed Dark brown tooled flap. Bag size, 5" wide X 6" deep   1 1/4" wide gusset.   Bag #3  **SOLD** Bag #3  Made from 3oz. veg tanned leather, hand sewn, two small inside pocket, Dyed Dark brown tooled flap. Bag size, 5 3/4" wide X 5 1/2" deep no gusset.