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I have a couple tags for South Dakota this year, and don't know much about hunting them. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I live about four hours south, so I'll be hoping to make a day trip for pass shooting or pond swatting them. Thanks!
Looks like a lot of minor stuff.
I wish they'd make a move to open archery deer season on September 1. Right now it doesn't open until the last weekend until September, which is about the time everything else gets busy. At the beginning of October you have antelope, in the middle of October you...
Well EHD was the big killer in 2011. I don't think it matters what kind of land is around when EHD hits. A drought is a drought.
The southeastern part of the state was hit hard, which is agriculture land. The central part of the state was hit hard, which is river breaks. The western part of the...
Like everyone else said, you can buy a point only for pretty much every season. I don't think it's necessary for swans since they usually have leftover tags.
South Dakota has actually been really proactive on the situation.
Southeastern South Dakota was hit particularly hard with EHD in 2012 and tags were immediately cut for many areas. It's been comforting to know they are on top of the situation, even though the average hunter doesn't really...
I was thinking the same thing.
Maybe they are looking into just changing the system. Something like having preference points for the whole state rather than east and west river separate. Or maybe they are looking at doing away with the unlimited archery tags? That is an issue that will need to...
I have a Canon Powershot SX500 and love it. You can view my photography here, all of the pictures were taken with this camera.
http://www.capturedakota.com/users/spencerneuharth
Excellent pictures! What was the hunting pressure like? Were you fighting crowds?
I just got into the turkey hunting game this year and would like to make a trip out there next year.
I got a GoPro for Christmas and am looking forward to getting use out of it for hunting and fishing.
To practice, I threw together this video of my girlfriend's puppies from yesterday. Let me know what you think. Make sure you watch it in 1080P!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEEY7tmivxM
So from the standpoint of someone who is about to jump in the points game, this all looks pretty bleak. I haven't been following other state's hunting regulations for very long, but doesn't this kind of thing happen quite often? I am talking about a big proposal that is eventually shot down and...
I rabbit hunt old farm yards with torn down buildings and a bunch of old vehicles. The rabbits dart from one structure to the next and don't always return to where I kicked them out of. I think this type of rabbit hunting is the ideal situation.