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whom kept coming even when their
fathers grew too old to hunt. Jake's
wife came on some hunts, too, staying
back at camp while the men hunted.
Jake's son, Jim, who lives in Omaha,
started coming to Scotia in 1985 when
he was 9 years old, started hunting
when he was 13, and while he didn't
hunt opening weekend at first, he's
hunted every year since. "I was a bird
dog there for a few years," Jim said.
Jim's son, Joe, is 11 years old and
about to become the fifth generation
of Jacobsens to join the hunt. He has
already been to the shack on clean-up
weekends in the fall, spending the day
Jake and his father, John Sr., show off
their four-bird limits following an October
1964 hunt.
Jim's chocolate lab, Guinness, hydrates
after returning to the shack for lunch.
