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I always worry about ice preventing birds from getting to food. I’ve seen when a rain storm wil come through and then freeze ground and birds can’t get to seeds on ground. Is this a co cern yet?

1500 miles is going to be quite the road trip if you’re driving. My number one advice to you is stop and get a physical hunting atlas map. Can pretty much get them anywhere. You can use the virtual one but I love physical copy because we’re always taking notes in the property and it goes in my...

In the past when I’ve stayed in Mitchell’s and gone to cabelas they have a big board up with banded birds people claimed for prizes. They released like 100 birds to win all kinds of goodies.

That’s awesome. What general area were you hunting. I’m trying to leave this coming Thursday or Friday so would be nice to have an idea where birds are.

Thank you for some of the advice about chamberlain everybody. I have stayed in chamberlain because it’s such a long drive to Mitchell. I think to rapid city it’s 10 hours for me from Idaho and about 13 hours to chamberlain plus a time change into central time zone so really 14 hours. Sometimes I...

Who cares if it’s a long post. Loved reading it!

I forgot about Al’s Oasis. Thank you.

Anybody have recommendations for chamberlain?

I went back and looked at information about habitat stamp. I get the impression it can only be used on public land. https://gfp.sd.gov/userdocs/docs/Habitat_Stamp_FAQ.pdf See page 3 but who knows.

I appreciate all the thoughts. Here are a couple responses from me: 3car - if you ever see pasture land go for $300-$500 an acre please let me know. I would buy that in a heartbeat but I am extremely doubtful there is any property in the pheasant triangle that is going for that price today. The...

What’s the point? Allow me to share a lesson my father taught me. My dad was a pilot with far more flight hours than some could dream. I asked him if it bothered him that there were captains that were younger or less experienced then him and he told me never let your ego get in the way. So no...

When I say easement I mean like a grassland easement or wetland easement. Once an easement is in place most of the time you can’t farm it. It sucks for revenue purposes because you can’t farm it but it also significantly reduces the value of the property. For example you can find property with...

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and with the price of land in South Dakota these days it’s getting harder and harder to find anything affordable. However every now and then you come across a nice large tract of land that has an easement in it for a reasonable price but I can’t afford it on my...

I have visited with officials from South Dakota and they told me that if you have a field of cut crops you’re not going to get much for a WIA. They told me at the time $5 an acre. If I remember correctly they pay anywhere from $5-$15 an acre for WIA. When you think about it a quarter field...

We’ll back when I got married you couldn’t hunt so dak past the first weekend in January so I thought I outsmarted it and got married after that weekend and then so dak finally extended to January 31. I’ve missed my anniversary the last 3 years hunting in so dak but thank goodness my wife...

Mind if I ask when you say GPA was in bad shape what was the issue?

My dad was Air Force and when I was about that 12-16 year old range he put me in every youth hunt he could find in California. Having that success at a young age I think is critical for young hunters to experience. My oldest is 10 but when he’s 12 I would seriously consider coming to so dak just...

If I read correctly, South Dakota allows youth to hunt Pheasants from September 24th to October 2nd this year. Has anybody taken any youth hunters out at all this year? Was just curious what the boots on the ground report was.

Actual federal warden. It got a little nasty when my dad was trying to ask him questions about where state and federal laws conflict with each other. My dad was trying to ask him if state law allows me to park on side of road and I’m hunting a ditch and decide to walk onto federal land and hunt...

Love it. So let me explain. I was hunting federal national wildlife area in South Dakota. I parked on the road in a public road like we do any part of the state and walked into federal ground to hunt. When I came back to my truck a federal officer was waiting for me and said if I ever hunt...