Hunting the Indian reservation lands

goldenboy

goldenboy

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I am looking into possibly hunting some reservation land next fall. It looks like a ton of available land west of the river in Standing Rock reservation. Has anyone hunted on reservation land before? What kinds of success did you have? I know there is a special license you need from the reservation but is it difficult to get maps and find where the available land to hunt is located? Are ther much for crops and food in that part of the state for birds? Looking for everybody's thoughts.
 
goldenboy said:
I am looking into possibly hunting some reservation land next fall. It looks like a ton of available land west of the river in Standing Rock reservation. Has anyone hunted on reservation land before? What kinds of success did you have? I know there is a special license you need from the reservation but is it difficult to get maps and find where the available land to hunt is located? Are ther much for crops and food in that part of the state for birds? Looking for everybody's thoughts.
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pretty sure you have to hire a tribal guide.
 
look at where UGUIDE has his camps..one of them, timber lake?, is right in the middle of where you are talking about...there are birds there....
 
markvan said:
U-Guide at Timber Lake is on private ground NOT tribal land
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I figured that...but thought that the proximity of his camp to the tribal land would give some indication to how things like the weather have affected bird numbers in general in that geography...
 
live nearby...been friends for 15+ years...hunt together at least one trip annually to SD...I had to find him a pup or I fear we wouldn't hunt together this fall!!!!
 
I think you will like the kind of dog we produce. They are bred for the field and hunting. My females can run all day for 5 days straight out in the Dakota's chasing roosters. They love it. we might need to join up some day and hunt together.
 
I hunted out there two years ago late season. It was a private land hunt and their were LOTS of birds. Due to some bad navigation we ended up on tribal land and it was pretty heavily grazed but the coulees were stacked with sharpies and pheasants. Buy gas whenever you can as there isn't much out there on the rez. Wish i could help more.
 
goldenboy said:
I don't believe you need a guide to pheasant hunt. Benelli Banger, that is a good point. I will look at the week to week results of that camp.
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I have hunted at U-Guide's West River Adventures camp in Timberlake for the last 4 or 5 yrs. There are usually plenty of birds and daily limits are not unusual. Two yrs. ago was the exception with high temps and drought conditions. Last year was better but not as good as the first 3 or so yrs. I hunted there. Bird numbers were down most places in SD last yr.
 
goldenboy said:
I am looking into possibly hunting some reservation land next fall. It looks like a ton of available land west of the river in Standing Rock reservation. Has anyone hunted on reservation land before? What kinds of success did you have? I know there is a special license you need from the reservation but is it difficult to get maps and find where the available land to hunt is located? Are ther much for crops and food in that part of the state for birds? Looking for everybody's thoughts.
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Back to the OP thoughts...

I decided to try this two years ago. I had ALWAYS seen tons of birds when driving through there on the way to my usual final destination, on US 212, finally gave it a go. I found ONE decent public spot in the entire area. The areas designated for public hunting are horsesh*t, flat desolate grazed land. I'll never, ever go back. Not giving the natives any more of my money.

Disappointing because there ARE a ton of birds there. I can admit this NOW but at the time I was NOT aware that road hunting on the rez was illegal and in about 90 minutes the only day we spent there, me and my hunting buddy absolutely hammered the roosters road hunting. Good thing we didn't get pinched, who knows what they would have done to us on the rez.
 
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