Private land?

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Making our first trip out to South Dakota (Huron) in a few weeks. I live for public land birds, but want to make sure my 2 fellow hunters joining me have a good time and so ideally I'd have some private land as a backup. Especially if we find that sage and Ace have found all the roosters already...

Couple questions.

Is pay-to-play the primary way to gain access to decent private land? Would we be turned away if we knocked on a farmer's door with a couple $100 bills? If only pay to play, what would be a resource to find these places besides having to peruse Facebook groups?

I don't want anyone's secret spots and we do not want to hunt flare nares. Also FYI, I'll be decked out in my sitka gear in case I run into goose.

Any advice is appreciated!!
 
I met a guy out there in the bar my first trip to SD and it was Huron too. After sucking down some cold suds with this guy for a few hours, he told me to call him the next afternoon and he'd let me hunt his spot. I had been struggling. Then he told me, "you could go and knock on people's doors, but to be honest, most of them will tell you no. "

Nice guy named Kevin. He had a lot of funny stories. Yes I had a bunch of brews, but didn't have to drive. I walked from the hotel.
 
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Bob Peters said:
I met a guy out there in the bar my first trip to SD and it was Huron too. After sucking down some cold suds with this guy for a few hours, he told me to call him the next afternoon and he'd let me hunt his spot. I had been struggling. Then he told me, "you could go and knock on people's doors, but to be honest, most of them will tell you no. "

Nice guy named Kevin. He had a lot of funny stories. Yes I had a bunch of brews, but didn't have to drive. I walked from the hotel.
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A lit of them charge over 100 dollars for 1 guy.yeah that's what hunting has come to.sad
 
chad.vis said:
If your in decent shape and have a dog you will be fine on public. East river deer season opens 11-23 I believe so keep that in mind.
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Yeah made the decision to give it a go during deer season regardless. If the weekend is busy we'll go west River.
 
Brentbullets said:
Please DO NOT have $100 bills in your hand!

Depending on time of year and weather you should be able to get on some private ground without paying.
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Last week in eastern MT we did some plumbing for the land owner. We were visiting with her and she told us about her problems with getting new countertops. When they came to install them something was wrong and they took them back and left her with no kitchen sink. The water shutoff valves leaked to much to leave the water turned on, so they left her without water because they don’t do any plumbing other than hooking up to the shutoff valve. The local town plumber died so she was in a fix. The pipes were copper and I didn’t want to get involved but I figured I couldn’t make it any worse she already didn’t have water. Found matching valves at the hardware store and that was a good gift because I had to reuse one of the valves compression nuts over, because I couldn’t get the old one off.
 
With 3 guys, you might have a better shot at handshake access vs. bigger groups. I look for smaller cover - grass waterways and small sloughs in cut cornfields are some of my favorites. Stuff that might not draw a lot of attention from bigger groups.
 
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