76 NEBRASKAland • JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2017
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Pictured is Doyle Shaffer (left) from Millersburg, Ohio, and
myself. We were home on leave from the U.S. Air Force and
spent October 1953 hunting ducks on Stinking Water Creek
north of Enders. Not pictured is my dad and brother who helped
us get our limit of 20 mallards.
I have purchased a Nebraska hunting license every year
since I was 16 – I am now 84.
– Stanley Spahn, McCook, Nebraska
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This is my dad, Clynard
Harmon, and my uncle, Charlie
Brown, at Morrill where we
lived. Uncle Charlie farmed
near Westerville. Uncle Charlie
and family visited most years
in the fall for deer hunting – or
pheasant and duck hunting. This
was 1953.
My husband's work took us
out of state for a few years –
but when he retired from Mobil
after 30-plus years in St. Louis,
Missouri, we moved back to "the
good life" in Nebraska.
– Naomi Brunz,
Sutherland, Nebraska
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I was 25 when this picture was taken on Thanksgiving,
1971. We had been hunting in the early morning on the Platte River near Lisco in Mike
Dutko's pit blind. Mike was a well-known Lisco waterfowl hunter who was featured
in the March 1967 NEBRASKAland Magazine. The goose population made hunting
more of a challenge than compared to today. In fact, in December of the following year
the daily bag limit was reduced to one.
After this hunt, we returned to the house, cleaned the geese and settled in to watch
the "Game of the Century" with No. 1 Nebraska defeating No. 2 Oklahoma for the
national championship. That made this day one of the most memorable dual sporting
events in one day. My sons, Brant and Kevin, and friends from the Lincoln-Omaha
area have come back to hunt with me every year since the 1980s.
Over the years, NEBRASKAland has featured many great stories
and photos representing our state extremely well. I have been a pleased subscriber for 40 years. Keep up the
great work.
– Terry Hamaker, Lewellen, Nebraska
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