54 NEBRASKAland • DECEMBER 2018
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Pictured is myself and Fred Bentley (right)
looking over our duck harvest in my backyard
in Lincoln on the opening day of the early teal
season of 1966. We shot these birds from a
temporary blind made of weeds from the then
filling Salt Valley lake in southeastern Lancaster
County now known as Hedgefield. All birds are
blue-winged teal. One of them had a leg band
that was attached near Yorkton, Saskatchewan,
Canada, in Aug. 20, 1964. I sent it to the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service and they sent back the
banding information to me.
The empty shells were added in an attempt
to give interest to the picture. I was shooting a
Winchester Model 12 and Fred used his side-by-
side double barrel. I believe it was a Parker.
Fred, who died in 1980, was my next-door
neighbor and close friend. He was originally from
Cleveland, Ohio, and had much experience in
waterfowl and upland game hunting in Ohio and
surrounding states. He piqued my interest in
gamebird hunting, and we had many good hunts
in the field and from the blind.
– Brick Paulson, Lincoln
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From the left is my dad, Art Push, Jr., who is now 89
years old and hunted until he was 86; and my uncles Richard
Hamilton, Mike Hamilton, and Bob Hamilton after a successful
day of pheasant hunting west of Lincoln circa fall of 1957. They
are all from Omaha, Nebraska.
– Art Push III, Kennard
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This is a my late father, Russell Boggs, in a picture taken in the early 1920s
in Hershey, where he lived.
– Jim Boggs, Grand Island
From the left is my dad Art Push Jr who is now 89
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