mporter012
Lil-Rokslider
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I currently live in Laporte CO, but have a friend that has been going up to Rapid City area and working quite a bit (we're both carpenters) and he said i should hightail it the h e double hockey sticks out of CO. I'm also a fly fishing guide in the summer (1-2 days a week) and so I'm somewhat reliant upon living around trout fishing, and I know there is some trout water there, but don't know much about it. Anyway, CO has become obscenely expensive, and crowded and I've about had it. The public land duck and pheasant areas are so crowded (I have an 11 month old GSP and want to be near better bird hunting), you may as well not even go. And i still go, waking up at 3am, driving all the way out to public, and there are 659 trucks already there. It's a mob scene and it's never gonna change here in Cali/Texas, I mean Colorado. I think I counted 58 guys on 3rd rifle opener!! Archery Elk was like something out of Braveheart. Let's recruit more hunters!
Anyway, I don't want to get into the debate over crowding, etc, just curious what the public land hunting opportunities are like in SD. Here in CO, I feel like i don't really hunt as much as i used to. In CO, for example, you get 7 days to hunt deer, or 30 days with a bow. In PA, where i grew up, you get about 4 months with a bow, or 1 week with an inline, 2 weeks with a rifle, and then 3 weeks with a flintlock. In OK, where I hunt some, you get 6 tags as a non-resident, similar to PA, 4 month with a bow! So I'm looking for more "opportunity" or whatever you want to call it than CO offers. Yes, CO has incredible OTC Elk, and the Mule Deer hunting here is really good, I understand that, it's just all things considered, you don't get nearly the time afield here chasing deer you do elsewhere.
Otherwise, just curious what everyones thoughts are a guy moving up to S. Dakota from down here in N. CO. How many deer tags can you get? Can you hunt elk every year? Mulies every year? Is the public land bird hunting a mob scene? Also a fishing nut, I fly fish for trout a lot, but do it all, ice fish, smallies, pan fish, etc. Cost of living seems considerably better from poking around online, but curious thoughts on that.
Feel free to PM me.
Anyway, I don't want to get into the debate over crowding, etc, just curious what the public land hunting opportunities are like in SD. Here in CO, I feel like i don't really hunt as much as i used to. In CO, for example, you get 7 days to hunt deer, or 30 days with a bow. In PA, where i grew up, you get about 4 months with a bow, or 1 week with an inline, 2 weeks with a rifle, and then 3 weeks with a flintlock. In OK, where I hunt some, you get 6 tags as a non-resident, similar to PA, 4 month with a bow! So I'm looking for more "opportunity" or whatever you want to call it than CO offers. Yes, CO has incredible OTC Elk, and the Mule Deer hunting here is really good, I understand that, it's just all things considered, you don't get nearly the time afield here chasing deer you do elsewhere.
Otherwise, just curious what everyones thoughts are a guy moving up to S. Dakota from down here in N. CO. How many deer tags can you get? Can you hunt elk every year? Mulies every year? Is the public land bird hunting a mob scene? Also a fishing nut, I fly fish for trout a lot, but do it all, ice fish, smallies, pan fish, etc. Cost of living seems considerably better from poking around online, but curious thoughts on that.
Feel free to PM me.
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