Help Planning a Trip

[TheYukiYama]

Its funny, over the past week i just started looking at their draw statistics. Very surprised to see how difficult it was for nonresidents to draw tags in the western part of the state. I am currently doing more research on SDs website. Arent the archery tags relatively easier?

Another note, white tail buck are typically much easier to draw than any deer tags which is what I typically do (often even some leftover tags around). I hunted as a resident there for the last 15 years so was able to get a few buck tags per year between special buck, muzzleloader, west river, east river, black hills deer and archery. This year I moved and now as a nonresident and considering changes to the system and how draw odds have gotten worse it’s going to be much tougher to get much.

Good note on archery though. It’s OTC for resident and about 80% draw without points for non resident if I remember correctly.