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It's time to bid adieu to Mr. Pheasant

By Ron Schara
Host of ESPN2's "Backroads with Ron & Raven"

Monday, November 29, 2004

If you relish the company of birdy dogs and the cackle of a ringneck pheasant, we have sad news: Minnesota's Mr. Pheasant has checked out. Maynard Nelson of New Ulm, Minn., died at the age of 76 on a late October weekend, ironically the time of year he relished as a hunter and career fighter for the future of pheasants in his native state. In his final years, Maynard suffered from Alzheimer's and, as fate would have it, probably didn't know what kind of boom of late Minnesota's ringneck popula ...

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