82 NEBRASKAland • MAY 2016
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From left: Gary Aylor and dog Dina, Harlan Mertes,
Gary Bedea, Ron Hollandsworth, dog Nan and Carolyn
Hollandsworth. Picture taken by Harlan's wife, Beverly.
Pheasant hunting around Bloomfield in Knox County in 1967.
Gary Aylor's dog was one of the finest dogs I ever hunted with.
– Gary Bedea, Table Rock, Nebraska
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Pictured here
are my good friends
Gerald Walrath and
Irwin Noble of Akron.
Typical pheasant hunt
in the Akron-Loretto,
Nebraska, area in the
late 1940s. Hens were
still legal. We hunted
a lot together in those
days during WWII in
the Sandhills area
west of Petersburg.
Our ranch was located
one mile south of the
District 18 School
House on the south
side of the Beaver
Creek.
– Bill Hamilton,
Ankeny, Iowa
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