South Dakota Pheasant and Duck

[kelley12]

If you are hunting walkin access land or other private land open to the public for pheasant and it is duck season are you allowed to shoot them on that land as well.

I am going to be around Sioux Falls for the pheasant opener and I don't mind buying more tags if opportunities could arise. Same with sand hill cranes.
Thank you

 

[brockel]

Might be a question for the game warden

 

[.270Rem]

Are there any NR waterfowl licenses available? I would give the public land atlas a review and call the local SDGFP office with your questions. If the answer is yes, you can hunt both at the same time, you had better remember to only have non-toxic on you or in the gun.

Have a great hunt. We got fooled by the ducks last year, but had lots of pheasants around us in Wall. Sharptails were relatively abundant too.

 

[warmer]

You'll find way more ducks around Sioux Falls then pheasants.

 

[SD_Prairie_Goat]

Short answer, yes with non toxic shot.

Longer answer, its difficult to get a NR license for waterfowl in SD. So those that do get it, aren't just looking to pick up a duck while pheasant hunting, so its not really a thing around here.

Also, ducks don't really like hanging out around good pheasant ground. Only exception being sloughs, but if you're close enough to shoot the ducks, it means you're probably wading through water at that point...

 

[cedahm]

Short answer, yes with non toxic shot.

Longer answer, its difficult to get a NR license for waterfowl in SD. So those that do get it, aren't just looking to pick up a duck while pheasant hunting, so its not really a thing around here.

@kelley12 - You need to apply for NR waterfowl in the summer:

Nonresident Waterfowl

gfp.sd.gov

https://gfp.sd.gov/userdocs/docs/2021waterfowlapp.pdf

We go up to SD 1-2 times a year and got the waterfowl licenses one year since we hunt very close to the river and a couple guys hate waiting on the 10:00am start for pheasants. We only hunted two mornings on a friend's big slough and shot a handful of mallards.

Also, ducks don't really like hanging out around good pheasant ground. Only exception being sloughs, but if you're close enough to shoot the ducks, it means you're probably wading through water at that point...

This is the larger conundrum. We have a couple of pheasant/sharptail spots right on the river where we would occasionally jump some ducks in something resembling gun range, but unless you're sneaking in on them with dogs at heel and full camo, etc (versus the way we did it, which was hunting pheasants/sharpies the same way we normally would on the way to the water with pointing dogs bouncing around, guys in lots of orange talking to eachother and whatnot) you are unlikely to get a shot. And missing pheasants with pricey non-toxic loads hurts a little. NTM everyone unloading their vest full of lead and swapping in non-toxic, then reversing that process later.

We haven't bothered with the waterfowl since that year.

 

[TheBenHoyle]

Unless you got your Non resident waterfowl license through the lottery, you can't hunt public ground. If you hunt on a nonresident license you picked up after the lottery is over you can only hunt private ground.

 

[chadv]

Very few ducks in the SE corner this year. Most sloughs are dry enough to walk across without getting your boots muddy.

 

[SD_Prairie_Goat]

Very few ducks in the SE corner this year. Most sloughs are dry enough to walk across without getting your boots muddy.

Extreme drought down here... Much better luck heading north this year