Certainly residents are hoping to not have every single public spot overrun with NR hunters is part of it, but many of the folks who are advocating for NR archery tag reductions are also advocating for adjustments in how all of the tags are allotted. Mule deer should be managed separately from...
I wanted to go back and look at some of the data that SD put out in the last year to help paint the picture of what is going on archery wise. I did that last night and was going to put some useful numbers out there.
NR archery tags sold increased from 2840 tags sold in 2014 to 5851 in 2021...
Lytro is correct in my opinion in the post above and also the SD data on harvest bears that out. In one of the more popular counties, NR archers accounted for nearly 200 mule deer harvested. Given the other population issues they are already facing, and were facing the year of that harvest...
Changes to NR archery tags in the state. Public land archery deer tags will be converted to a limited draw system. NR private land or guided is not affected. This change will reduce pressure on counties high in public land and mule deer that are currently being harvested at a rate that is not...
Really appreciate the response. and I don't mean to jack the OP thread, but I am in the data gathering phase of a couple hunts. I am planning to Haul road for caribou this fall, and as part of that was planning to do some recon on the way back for moose potential a year or two after that. I...
The winter we are having and are forecasted to continue to have at this point is really really smacking our pheasant population. Personally have been out in the last week and seen dozens upon dozens of dead birds in slough edges and groves. They are running out of energy and the weather has...
That portion of SD has had some real population declines for a host of reasons, and especially with the winter in general that has been had, I would probably hold on to your points for a bit if it was me. There were some recent changes that just passed committee that is going to have an impact...
I am looking at doing the drive as well, and am working stiff. I can get a similar timeframe of about 16 or 17 days. My hope was to be able to get 9 or 10 days of hunting and driving the rest. We have done the paperwork for firearms in Canada before and its no issue really. If you have a...
when you say hunt moose effectively are you pointing towards ability to call? stalk? Glass? pick good habitat? just curious what you would define as effective moose hunting. To clarify, this is not sarcasm or a slight or anything, genuinely curious
Really appreciate the response on this! That gives me some more to work with! Are there many pull outs that you can get to, or are they very few and far between? do you prefer early august for numbers of animals or timing of movement, or is it just a timeframe that has worked for you. We are...