60 Nebraskaland • August-September 2021
Pheasant Hunting Near Palmyra 1963.
Opening day of pheasant hunting I hunted
on my uncle's farm southwest of Palmyra. I
was 16 years old and that is my dad's vizsla,
Zipp, with me.
One of our best hunting buddies was Carl
Wolfe, who worked for the Game and Parks
Commission. We hunted together until the
mid-1990s, especially grouse at Halsey and
quail around Inavale.
Ken Bouc did an article on Dad and I and
our dogs quail hunting in the December 1990
issue of Nebraskaland.
– Steve Stedman, Beatrice, Nebraska
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PORTRAITS FROM THE PAST
Hunting Mule Deer 1983. Jim Scherbarth
and son, Atone, of Hay Springs, myself, and
nephew, Kelly Schafer of Evansville, Wyoming
(currently). All really nice mule deer taken
Northwest of Hay Springs that fall.
– Tim Scherbarth, Hay Springs, Nebraska
Coyote Pups 1938. My dad (Henry Petersen) and
myself probably taken in the spring of 1938 on our
farm northwest of Auburn. Dad and a neighbor, Henry
Rogge, had come across a coyote den and dug it up.
They brought the six pups home so we could see them.
Dad is holding three of them, and I have the other three
on my lap in the wagon. The pups were remarkably
calm and didn't struggle as long as we kept our hands
on them and didn't make any fast moves.
– Loren Petersen Green, Valley Center, California
Hunting West of Elgin in the 1980s. My
younger brother Doug Buffington (pictured left)
and myself with a pair of prairie chickens we
shot back in the '80s near Elgin, Nebraska.
– Alan Buffington, Fort Collins, Colorado
