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South Dakota Archery Merriams

by Bob Speirs April 16, 2012

Three cold hours in a hunting blind waiting for a gobbler to walk through a shooting lane would be discouraging. To be further challenged by the limitations associated with archery tackle and then finally losing your guide to the cold would have put most hunters in retreat, but not Nate Schneider. He told Maggie, his [...]

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Lawrence County is Big Cat Country

by Bob Speirs February 28, 2012

Lawrence County has had three lions harvested this season that weighed in at over 140 lbs. Meade, Custer, and Pennington counties have only harvested one lion each that size at the time of this writing. With the hunting window rapidly closing, hunters should concentrate their efforts in an area that has the highest odds of [...]

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Finally, My Lion

by Bob Speirs February 10, 2012

I imagined my lion would stalk out of the forest one day. That it would slip like fog from the timber looking for the fawn in distress that I was imitating. I never imagined that my cat would suddenly be staring down into my face from 40 feet above. Or that my rifle would be [...]

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Observations from Lion Season

by Bob Speirs January 23, 2012

I have hunted lions in bitter weather, the kind that has icicles hanging from your horses’ belly. I have hunted lions in deep snow that closed down most of the hills to only the most ardent snow shoe enthusiasts. But I must confess to enjoying hunting lions in shirts sleeve weather. I enjoyed sitting high [...]

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Calling all Cats

by Bob Speirs January 19, 2012

I embarrass my family. I’ve driven the same car to work for twenty years. It is pretty banged up, but then so am I and I think we both still run dependably and start easily on cold mornings. I tell my wife that she should be proud that I believe in commitment and longevity. She [...]

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2012 SD Mountain Lion Season

by admin December 31, 2011

2012 – Mountain Lion Harvest Status: Total Lions: 67 Female Lions: 42 Mountain Lion Records: Statewide Season Harvest Status, this list is updated as Mt. Lions are reported. Lion # Date Sex Est. Age Wgt Location SW-1 1/1/2012 F 2 80 Custer SW-2 1/1/2012 F 6 88 Custer SW-3 1/1/2012 M 2 90 Pennington SW-4 [...]

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Lions Not the Problem

by Bob Speirs October 5, 2011

There’s a Game Fish and Parks Commissioners meeting this last weekend at the new Outdoor Learning Center in Rapid City. Opponents of the proposed 60 lion quota for this coming hunting season have been voicing their concern that the harvest of too many adult lions has led to an increase in human/lion encounters. Young lions [...]

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New SD Record Mt Lion

by admin August 29, 2011

Congratulations to Frank Schmidt – holder of the new record Mountain Lion for South Dakota. Here’s Frank’s story … Last summer and early fall I had seen four mountain lions and captured two others on my trail camera.  With that many sightings I thought that this could be the year I kill a lion. I [...]

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Lion Exports

by Bob Speirs August 19, 2011

For too long, Black Hills wildlife managers and have been hoarding our cache of puma gold. In these uncertain economic times, shouldn’t we as a state encourage our wildlife professionals to find a way to cash in on our valuable lion surplus? The 1500 mile adventure that one of our big cats took has been [...]

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First Archery Mountain Lion

by admin March 21, 2011

This story comes to us from Sean Fulton – Owner of the title “First Archery Mt Lion in SD“! I had been watching this area for a few years and had known it to have a lot of cougar activity, especially after hunters start pushing the cats around. I had a scouting camera up in [...]

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