Newbie in SD this week

[MrRedNWhite]

Title says it all, newbie in SD this week with my dog chasing pheasant. Staying around Redfield area in a motel, but willing to drive. Have a setter, so mostly looking for CREP lands. Any suggestions welcome, particularly with this weather - if we can even get 2 days of decent hunting and some bird work I would call that a success

 

[benelli-banger]

Title says it all, newbie in SD this week with my dog chasing pheasant. Staying around Redfield area in a motel, but willing to drive. Have a setter, so mostly looking for CREP lands. Any suggestions welcome, particularly with this weather - if we can even get 2 days of decent hunting and some bird work I would call that a success

Good luck, you’re on the right track! Don’t know that area well, but there’s birds around Athol, that I know…don’t know how much public land there is in that direction…

 

[benelli-banger]

3 pieces of CREP north of athol…check ‘em out…

 

[benelli-banger]

Some school trust lands near there, a bit south…may be worth driving by at least…

 

[Goosemaster]

Redfield used to have a good restaurant.

 

[A5 Sweet 16]

You've probably seen it, but if not, get the South Dakota Public Hunting Atlas. Online version is fine. I prefer the paper kind. You're not just looking for "good looking cover". You're looking for a spot that offers the type of habitat pheasants use during that particular hour of the day under those particular conditions. It's quite dependent on the adjacent ground. Crops, trees, grass, slough, pasture?

 

[Matt D]

Good luck and keep us posted.

 

[Goosemaster]

South Dakota is really cool, the people are really cool, but it isn't as easy as people make it look on these hunting shows.

 

[Bob Peters]

Keep a pair of binoculars handy. Sometimes a field they use heavy, you'll spy one flying about, or pecking in the field near grass cover. Not always, but often, when you see one or two, they've got lots of buddies around.

 

[MrRedNWhite]

South Dakota is really cool, the people are really cool, but it isn't as easy as people make it look on these hunting shows.

Yeah. I'm aware on all accounts. I came up in early October for grouse and chickens on Ft Pierre Grasslands. Met some incredibly nice folks and absolutely got my ass handed to me birdwise. I do it for the dog.

 

[Goosemaster]

Yeah. I'm aware on all accounts. I came up in early October for grouse and chickens on Ft Pierre Grasslands. Met some incredibly nice folks and absolutely got my ass handed to me birdwise. I do it for the dog.

The first time I hunted South Dakota on my own, I got my ass handed to me.