South Dakota Hunting Pro Staff Articles, News and Opinions

      Offering a wide range of experience, expertise and knowledge, we will shares our experiences, viewpoints, opinions – as well as our hunting successes and failures. Stay tuned and learn and laugh along with us!

      How to Grow Big Whitetails

      by admin August 31, 2011

      We recently received this interesting article regarding the growth of Whitetail Antlers – a study conducted in South Dakota back in 2009.  The article is part of an ongoing series entitled Trophy Points:  Big Game Research – a series put out by the Boone and Crockett Club. By Kevin L. Monteith (B&C Official Measurer), Jonathan A. Jenks (Distinguished Professor, [...]

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      2010 Photo Contest Champion

      by OOBuck January 22, 2011

      This fall, South Dakota Hunting held its first hunting Photo Contest. Contest entries were submitted from hunters all over the nation, and depicted hunting and hunting related photos that showcased the many species available within South Dakota. Throughout the nine weeks of submissions, entries were selected as weekly winners by our judges and sponsors. Once [...]

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      South Dakota Moose Buck

      by OOBuck November 10, 2010

      Growing up hunting, inevitably every year as I get my tags in the mail, I envision that this is the year I will take down a giant.  Unfortunately, while I have taken a few decent bucks, I have yet to bag a legendary buck.  I have from time to time however had the chance to [...]

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      2010 SDH Crew Antelope Hunt

      by OOBuck October 13, 2010

      As you may have read on our forums, the SDH crew hunts antelope in the fall of the year up on public walk-in in land within Butte County. With thousands of acres of Walk-in, BLM and School & Public Land acres, there is a huge variety of areas to discover and stalk the pronghorn antelope. [...]

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      How to Boresight a Rifle

      by Coast2Coast September 26, 2010

      How to boresight a rifle Let me begin by acknowledging that there are a lot of ways to bore sight your rifle.  Modern technology has provided us with a plethora of gadgets and accessories and I am not in any way opposed to using such tools if they are available.  I learned to bore sight [...]

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      Antelope Hunting 101

      by T-Bone September 9, 2010

      Antelope Hunting 101  - Lessons Learned by T-Bone Growing up, much of the Big game hunting I took part in was moose and bear hunting in dense heavy cover in northwestern Ontario. Needless to say, when I moved back to South Dakota and started hunting antelope 12 years ago, it was a huge change. The [...]

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