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According to Keloland, Worthing and the southern metro area of Sioux Falls received over 18 inches from this storm. Close to the year’s total in about two days, and it had already been a pretty wet spring…

Will do on all of those fronts. He already gets the vaccine and booster, in addition to the snake breaking. I searched through old threads and didn’t find much information, especially regarding the eastern Sandhills area I’m talking about.

Looking for some info on what people have experienced in early season grouse hunting near Thedford/Dunning/Broken Bow with regards to snakes? I’m up in South Dakota and may want to pop down for a September hunt. I’m not looking at going too far north or west from the area mentioned but I’m...

If you use the state’s walk in atlas GIS online or get the hard paper version, there are some WIA areas that have a red outline or blue hashing through them. Those have special regulations, and one of them is related to no hunting in I harvested crops. It’s not every property, but some will...

Not sure that this is indicative of anything one way or the other for the pheasant hatch, but I did see a large covey of Huns yesterday in the far east central part of the state. I’ve only ever seen one or two other coveys in the state, so that was cool. Then, a quarter mile down the road, a...

What part of the state?

Pretty big cell hit the Wessington Springs to Parker track last night. Supposedly had some hail in it, but I’m not sure how much and how large. Cooler temps ahead.

It’s still early July though, and there are a few birds still hatching or that just hatched within the last couple weeks. They say the first 10-14 days after hatch is critical with thermal regulation, so rain today was still beneficial for birds that hit the ground at the end of June. Peak...

Driving in east central part of the state today and saw a hen with a brood of at least 8 chicks. Might have been 10+. That’s just one observation, but if that’s representative of how the birds did nesting, things will be looking good.

I fully agree that the best thing to do is to start looking at lower harvest areas with a lot lower hunters. There are some gems out there that don’t get near the amount of pressure or press that certain areas do. All things being equal, like weather and hunting pressure, I’m sure Mitchell or...

Does North Dakota publish any sort of data showing estimated hunters and harvest by County like South Dakota does? South Dakota’s is just a survey, so accuracy is only somewhat reliable, but it’s really interesting and helpful to see the breakdown of pressure and harvest by county. I know each...

It may not fully reduce the drought areas, but it definitely helps and it for sure makes a big impact with more bugs on the landscape and less oppressively hot days for the chicks in their first few weeks. It was a very timely rain.

Widespread showers tonight over most of the pheasant country. Hopefully no major hail, but man what a relief. We needed this.

A good chunk of the eastern part of the state got some much needed rain the last two days. It was widespread but pretty light overall. Some areas got an inch or two though. It’s not enough to keep us out of the emergency haying that is coming later this summer, but it probably did wonders for...

I agree with the poster above. I’ve seen very few birds in the last two weeks compared to the six weeks before that in the same exact areas. And that would correspond with hens being on the nest. To each their own, but I haven’t seen anything to cause me to question hunting this fall or...

This is just my observation, but my job requires that I do a lot of driving on gravel roads throughout eastern SD. Last summer, I was spending a lot of time in Brown and Day county. This summer I haven’t been up there yet but have been driving around the east central part of the state, which I...

Picked up a box of Fiochi #7.5 in 3 inch 20 gauge, 1 1/4 ounce. Thought it was an interesting load and am curious if anyone has pattered it or had experience with it. I haven’t seen much 3 inch in shot sizes smaller than #6. I’m curious how the shot string is with more pellets in a lengthened...

This post might be more appropriate for the general training forum, but since it is geographically specific, I thought I’d post here. I’ll be moving back to Brookings in about a month and am looking for connections for training birds or pigeons in that area of the state. If anyone knows of any...

To be honest, after the first few posts, there didn’t seem to be much reason to weigh back in. A lot of great information, and thanks to all for sharing. I ended up getting some 20 gauge primed hulls to start with while working on birds, working my way up to full loads. Seems to have ended up...

Thanks for the replies. I am used to Eastern South Dakota and cold weather early plus no snakes. Now being in Colorado, I am finding I either need to wait until early/mid November for pheasant season to open, or deal with the possibility of snakes for early grouse seasons in Nebraska and Kansas.