My 2022 South Dakota Whitetail

orkan

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Feb 21, 2021
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It was an extremely tough year here. This is the only mature animal I saw the entire season and several weeks of scouting pre-season.

583yd sitting shot off the RRS tripod with my 6mm PRC Primal running 110 A-Tips. What an amazing blessing to be able to pursue him. I figured I was going to end up tagging a doe with my any deer tag this year. 11 days into the season, hundreds of deer seen, at least 150 bucks... but none that were mature other than him. Tons of deer, just everything tiny.

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dtrkyman

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That was a poke, I am a bowhunter so ranges like that are crazy to me.. My first SD. client last year killed his deer at 403 yds. Impressive, and really cool to watch through the spotter!

Congrats!
 

WCB

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Jun 12, 2019
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heard the same thing from a friend of mine....lots of little buck but nothing mature. He killed a nice buck on the last day of his hunt. glad I didn't put in for a tag this year.
 

Tex68w

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Lots of young and smaller bucks on our hill country lease this year as well, the drought probably didn’t help matters. Congrats on the very nice buck.
 

Lytro

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Jun 19, 2019
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Similar experience myself hunting all across west river SD. The muley I took during rifle season was one of the few mature bucks I saw all year. Lots of 1.5 and 2.5 year old bucks running around.
 
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