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Did 4 full days of hunting from opener to Tue and spent mornings and afternoons in different sections of the area bounded by US14, SD45, US12, US37- basically 25 miles either side of 281 from Aberdeen to Wolsey. Got limits for the 3 of us every day hunting ditches. The extra hours and hunting in...

Deli roast beef and Virginia ham with provolone on 12 grain bread. No cheap shells or sandwich fixings allowed on SD trips. High winds yesterday and the snow this morning kept them in the cattails all day. Really early we found a few standing on barb wire or first spruce tree branch. Then it...

3 in of wet snow turned the roads slick. Oil roads were a white out of slush. Gravel was barely passable in 4x2. Needed 4x4 to get down any section line or travel gravel in any comfort.

Birds everywhere. Spots that had few birds last year but not enough to hunt now have good numbers and are producing. Spots with high numbers have huge covies that just explode left and right. 3 hunters, no dog this year, hunting ditches and we've filled out with 9 each day, hours early before...

Doing a lot road hunting right now. Everything is so dry that the 1-2 inches of snow today in East Central was melted and back to dry on the dirt and gravel roads with 33-34 degrees and light winds. Nothing is frozen yet as the days have been above freezing. All the section line roads and...

East central report on the ground- I've seen 2 out of 500 fields was bean still in. Corn is well advanced like 80% out as it is going day and night with dry corn going straight to bins. Operations stopped this morning to allow the inch of snow to melt off but were back at it tonight. Saw ground...

They took out 20% of corn over last week. It did rain Sunday night in a lot of places but it was pretty dry ground and has been sunny/windy so they should have been back in the fields right after. That and most corn should be at 15% moisture and below which means combines run faster and it goes...

They are a day late on last week's crop report. This is the most important one they do all year! It had better say beans 100% and corn 95% with just a few strips left in every field or there will be some explanations needed come Friday evening when I get there.

The only way to ensure public hunting spots stay open is to have the maximum number of new hunters have the most success we can help them achieve. Without hunter numbers, the public land goes away. Without good hunting success, the new hunters go away. So go back and re-read some of these...

Love the idea of fishing and hunting the same trip and it seems the river always produces good bird numbers every year. Seems to me like the TV show's concept was a bit of a gimmick though. I was watching that episode and looking at the maps. I don't see a lot of ACoE land areas near Chamberlain...

Here's my break down a little simplistic but basic principles to add to what they've already posted. You want to be East River. The Missouri river divides the state in half and west river is mostly grassland/cattle and east river is mostly crops which means corn. Pheasants thrive best when...

Agreed- it's bad conservation. Hard on the habitat and reproduction to give out a single location so posting publicly by mistake or on purpose is not ideal. The people who are showing up are either newbies who don't know better or dumb donkeys who think there will still be birds in that spot...

I don't think there is since I provide the most complete report I can after my opening weekend trip to SD. I only make it out one time a year so if anyone wants to go behind me and cleanup all the birds I missed, more power to you. Just 20% of the birds I see/shoot are 2-3 year old so most are...

You really have to be well prepared for the elements to hunt the ground in Dec and stay out of the wind in shelterbelts and cattails. I would think you would be on the misery river that time of year over open water. I tried hunting the river near Gettysburg in 2017 when it was so dry and bird...

I get my hardcode hunt going with duck, field goose and deer getting up hours before sunrise. Just nice to take it easy for one trip, know that there's plenty of birds to go get in SD and nobody is getting a head start on you. I am that tourist they are aiming for and either the bar or the...

If you had a choice at 10AM would you walk crop strips or grass/shelter belt? Are they likely to be still mostly feeding or is that done and they'll be in cover like I'm used to seeing at noon? I've heard a few times the noon start was that so you didn't catch them still roosting in the morning...

We barely make it out to the field on time for a noon start most openers so 10AM is going to be a real challenge. This is as much a social trip and we enjoy the nights out as much as the hunt. Noon start was a good excused to laze around, pick apples, scoop up some cast off corn for feeding...

Thanks, I didn't know that- I owe you. I wasn't planning on buying a case when I went to get them. But when there wasn't anything on the shelves anywhere, I figured I would be supplying everyone in the hunting party. There's a big CRP up near Ashton. One in particular. It's got a long gravel...

Agree with so much in the post above. Current CRP practices require spraying to remove problem weeds which also removes many forbs/legumes. Chicks need water within hours of hatching and bugs within days and weeds provide that with broad leaves maintaining morning dew even when there is no rain...

Ask around when in the bars, restaurants, gas station and see if they are any locals who want to get out hunting. Many can't for lack of vehicle, gas money, shells. Our first "in" was from a cook that desperately wanted to get out but had been cooking part time and hauling grain part time trying...