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Article: PHEASANT OPENER; SOUTH DAKOTA; It just doesn't get any better; Pheasant hunting should be good in Minnesota this year, but South Dakota is something everyone should experience.(SPORTS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- October 19, 2005
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Byline: Doug Smith; Staff Writer
Aberdeen, S.D. -- UNPUBLISHED CORRECTION OF 12/09/05: The byline was incorrect in the original version of this article; this version contains the correction.
Oh, what's a pheasant hunter to do?
Last weekend, thousands of Minnesota hunters faced the ultimate dilemma: Follow treasured traditions and hunt roosters in Minnesota, where ringneck numbers are up 75 percent and the season could be one of the best in years?
Or, choose to continue what for many of those same hunters is a different tradition of heading west to open the season in South Dakota, which has the highest pheasant population in 40 years? ...