Deer

2011 Firearms Anterless Season Closes Sunday

January 7, 2012

PIERRE, S.D. – The 2011 East and West River Firearms Deer Seasons close Sunday, Jan. 8. The firearms seasons reopened on Dec. 31, 2011 for antlerless deer only. The antlerless extension to the season is used as a management tool to allow for harvest of antlerless deer only. All antlerless permits issued for these two [...]

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Leftover Deer Licenses – Good Again

December 23, 2010

Leftover Deer Licenses – Good Again! For all you die-hard deer hunters, there is good news…the season isn’t quite over yet.  For those who have not filled all their tags, we get the opportunity to once again don the camouflage and hit the field. East River The East River Deer season will reopen from Jan. 1-9. All [...]

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Big Bucks Still Available to Hunters

December 17, 2010

It had been three months since I’d last set eyes on the big five-by-five whitetail. His high, wide, symmetrical rack was the most impressive set of antlers I’d ever seen grown by a Black Hills deer. I’d spent an hour watching him from afar in September. He’d come down from the hills with the early [...]

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23 Point Mule Deer

December 14, 2010

This story of an Awesome 23 point Mule Deer comes to us from South Dakota hunter – Auston Butt. It was a few months before archery season and my grandfather reported the news that I had been waiting for all year long. “I found a good one. He’s got a lot of points but I’m not sure [...]

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Mourning Has Broken

December 10, 2010

The flock of sharp-tailed grouse was oblivious to my attention. I normally need to have a bird in hand before I can tell the roosters from the hens, but on that snow-covered stubble field, three males were strutting their stuff. A dancing grouse throws his tail feathers in the air and thrusts his head out [...]

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Thankful for Kids

November 26, 2010

It’s the smile, not the buck. It is the look of amazement and wonder in a little kid’s face. When adults take children hunting it does much more for the adult than it ever does for the young. I spent the opener of prairie deer season on the Cheyenne River with close friends for a [...]

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A Miss is Just a Miss

November 12, 2010

Hunters misss. Sometimes we miss clean and are lucky in our failure. Sometimes we miss and poorly hit an animal that deserved better. The difference between a clean miss and a wounded animal are distinctions that can be lost if there is no blood to trail and no sign of a hit. Sometimes our only [...]

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South Dakota Moose Buck

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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Free Resident Deer Licenses Avail

October 22, 2010

PIERRE, S.D. – South Dakota resident landowners still have several options available to purchase a 2010 East River Deer or West River Deer license before the season opens, including some units where free antlerless licenses are available. South Dakota residents who own, or lease and operate, a minimum of 160 acres of land for agricultural [...]

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Leftover Licenses – WR Deer ’10

August 3, 2010

WEST RIVER DEER – LEFTOVER LICENSES South Dakota License County Indicators 01-Minnehaha 23-Deuel 45-Lyman 02-Pennington 24-Dewey 46-McCook 03-Brown 25-Douglas 47-McPherson 04-Beadle 26-Edmunds 48-Marshall 05-Codington 27-Fall River 49-Meade 06-Brookings 28-Faulk 50-Mellette 07-Yankton 29-Grant 51-Miner 08-Davison 30-Gregory 52-Moody 09-Lawrence 31-Haakon 53-Perkins 10-Aurora 32-Hamlin 54-Potter 11-Bennett 33-Hand 55-Roberts 12-Bon Homme 34-Hanson 56-Sanborn 13-Brule 35-Harding 57-Spink 14-Buffalo 36-Hughes 58-Stanley [...]

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