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Payne Ahrens shows off one of the four birds he bagged to complete the Upland Slam. The slam is sponsored by the Nebraska Game and Parks commission, Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever. Ahrens hunted with one of his two German Shorthaired Pointers and used a 20-gauge shotgun to bag a ring-necked pheasant, sharp-tailed grouse, greater prairie chicken and northern bobwhite quail to complete the slam. Three of the birds were taken in Nuckolls County and the grouse was taken in North-Central Nebraska.