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Bob Peters

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One thing about South Dakota. It always gets pumped up on pheasant hunting, which can be misleading because you still have to work for them. But man, you get west of webster and every pond, puddle, lake and cattle tank is full of ducks. I really don't think North Dakota can hold a candle to it. If I lived out there I'd park the 28 gauge and but 10 flats of steel 3" shells every summer. Waterfowl galore.
 
Haven’t seen much waterfowl yet in my 3 trips to SD…may see more this week. In the past 3+ decades, I’ve seen torrents of them in my late Nov/Dec trips…very impressive tornadoes! Partial to mallards, myself…
 
SD is better than ND when it comes to waterfowling because we get the same birds, have similar wetland conditions, and we limit the non resident hunters to provide better experiences for residents and non residents who hunt waterfowl.
 
SPUR60 said:
SD is better than ND when it comes to waterfowling because we get the same birds, have similar wetland conditions, and we limit the non resident hunters to provide better experiences for residents and non residents who hunt waterfowl.
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I’m not a waterfowl guy, has the state always been that way with out of state hunters? Total opposite approach to pheasant.
 
It always looks easy when you don’t hunt them. 10,000 snows in a field, will they come back? Keep hunting pheasants and be grateful they don’t migrate.
 
I grew up in the flyway west of Brookings. The fowl from Canada hang around Sand Lake by Aberdeen, and then leave when the weather turns bad. If you find the cornfield they are using, and your timing is good, the skies can be full of waterfowl of all types. The last time I hunted deer back in that area, there were more duck/goose hunters from MN than deer hunters. They had trailers full of decoys and equipment that would make the average pheasant hunter blush.
 
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