Red Coats Submitted by Nute Chapman From Onaway Outlook November 14, 2014

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  As the red coat season approaches us, we bring you a picture of some Onaway deer hunters.  This picture
was taken at a hunting camp off Rush Lake Road.

  Butch Gall and I spent a few weeks here one summer.  Alex McKenzie was cutting the pulpwood off from
this hunting club for Claude Post.  Butch and I would start every morning at first light and peel 
full-length poplar logs until the heat would shut us down.  We used peeling spuds made from a truck 
spring.  Don't recall banking any money from this venture, but gained a lot of experience and did some 
fishing.

  We gave the names of five of the six hunters in this picture.  In no special order they are Jack
Petchell, Lynwood Smith, Clayton Smith, Dan Farrow, and Dorcas DeRosia.  I knew all of these Onaway
icons when I was a teenager.

  Note the large buck in the center behind the men.

  
  		
From the Onaway Outlook, November 14, 2014, page 3. 


Retyped by J. Anderson