South Dakota

[zbb]

Archery might be changing. There is a proposal that nr have to buy a small game license to apply and then raise the price of a tag. Also to limit the any deer tags to no more than 8% of what the residents get kinda like rifle deer. With the big amounts of nr hunting mule deer I can’t say I disagree

Do you have a link to this? The only thing I could find is for possible changes to antlerless whitetail tags for archery and muzzleloader seasons. Also 8% of what, tags are unlimited for residents. My dad drew a hills WT tag, 2 points for a resident! Crazy
Edit to add, congrats to those that drew a tag, bummer for those that didn’t. Maybe next year, I told myself that for a really long time for archery hills elk.

 

[KurtR]

Do you have a link to this? The only thing I could find is for possible changes to antlerless whitetail tags for archery and muzzleloader seasons. Also 8% of what, tags are unlimited for residents. My dad drew a hills WT tag, 2 points for a resident! Crazy
Edit to add, congrats to those that drew a tag, bummer for those that didn’t. Maybe next year, I told myself that for a really long time for archery hills elk.

Seen on Facebook on Sd bow hunters page.

 

[yoopshoot]

Drew WR tag


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[El_Duderino]

Drew WR non res with 4 points. Good luck out there Roksliders!

 

[hoythunter]

SD was my last hope this year, denied with 5 points for 15a any deer tag

 

[TheGrayRider]

Credit card hit this morning - South Dakota Nonresident West River whitetail deer.

 

[Gun&BowSD]

Didn’t draw black hills with 5 points; waiting on West River

You didnt draw an any white tail with 5? Or are
You going for Hills Any deer?

 

[sodaksooner]

has anybody hunted southwest SoDak below the black hills? applied for a tag there this year, wondering if I just wasted a bunch of points tho

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Used to hunt down there a lot. My brother lived in Hot springs. Can't speak to how it is nowadays, but in years past we had a lot of fun. Lots of walk in, plus my brother knew a lot of folks in the area so we were able to hunt a lot of private (that and he leased a bunch of land for a while too....)

 

[sodaksooner]

SD was my last hope this year, denied with 5 points for 15a any deer tag

Shot many a deer and antelope in that unit as a kid....40 years ago. Still good stuff. We have access to a few ranches there. Would love to bowhunt them.

 

[Sodakhunter]

How many points are the nonresidents needing to draw? I grew up in SD and drew WR almost every year, now as a nonresident I can't draw an any deer with 5 points?

 

[KurtR]

How many points are the nonresidents needing to draw? I grew up in SD and drew WR almost every year, now as a nonresident I can't draw an any deer with 5 points?

that depends alot on the county. I would say for any deer your looking at 5-10 years. Deer numbers are way down in some areas they need to get rid of killing muley does and cut tags back a bunch. I have enough points to draw the wr tag i want but not blowing them till we have deer again

 

[Plainsman79]

How many points are the nonresidents needing to draw? I grew up in SD and drew WR almost every year, now as a nonresident I can't draw an any deer with 5 points?

Your looking at a minimum of 4 on an any deer tag. We use to hunt WR every year or at least every other with any deer tags as a non-resident and times have definitely changed. It only took a few posts on a couple Internet forums and draw odds decreased dramatically.

 

[KurtR]

They get the proposal to go through for 500 dollar tags and make everyone buy a small game license to apply it will fix the needing points thing

 

[sodaksooner]

Yeah times have changed. Used to bowhunt almost every year and prairie deer pretty much whenever I wanted for $100 as a non resident. Could literally walk out of my parent's house (in town) and walk half a mile and be bowhunting. Never saw another soul.... I think i have 8 prairie deer points now, some pronghorn and a couple of hills. Should have never left....lol.

 

[Plainsman79]

They get the proposal to go through for 500 dollar tags and make everyone buy a small game license to apply it will fix the needing points thing

Hopefully your right but- People don’t bat an eye paying for special buck or bull tags in Wyoming. $500 will basically put SD inline with other states for a NR buck tag.

 

[barrettm95]

You didnt draw an any white tail with 5? Or are
You going for Hills Any deer?

Yeah didn’t draw an any whitetail with 5