Sponsors Needed for 'Welcome Home the Troops' Pheasant Hunt

Once again Wild Wings is teaming up with Beyond the Yellow Ribbon networks in Stillwater and Hugo to host a "Welcome Home the Troops" Pheasant Hunt this fall.

To date, the group has welcomed home nearly 500 veterans with this unique event, but to make it happen sponsors are needed.

The “Welcome Home the Troops” pheasant hunt will be held at Wild Wings of Oneka on Saturday, Oct. 19, and will include a guided pheasant hunt, bird cleaning, 50 target round of sporting clays, shells and a wild game dinner. 

Read the sponsorship brochure attached to this post for more information. 

Here are a couple of comments from soldiers who have participated in past pheasant hunt events, relayed via D.J. Raduenz: 

Commander of the 257th MP unit of the Minnesota National Guard:

"His unit just returned from a year in Afghanistan and he attended our first Welcome Home the Troops event in 2010 after he returned from a year in Basra, Iraq. He said that while deployed this time he and his mates would, over coffee, spend time talking about their great memories of the 2010 hunt; helped get them through the bleak days of the deployment."

And these comments from a Vietnam Veteran who attended last year's hunt:

"His wife told me that for days after the hunt he couldn't stop talking about how much finally being thanked (after waiting 30 years) meant to him; people at Wild Wings kept coming up to him and thanking him for his service. I talked to a co-worker of his this week and his says the guy has been wearing the Red Bull commemorative hat to work every day for the last nine months."