I've hunted sharptails around Martin, SD and it was good. You could focus on pheasant and you would end up with a 50-50 mix of sharptail/pheasant but pheasants were certainly thin in this area. Or you could go to areas that only sharptails hangout and do well on sharpies. I believe the best "pure" or "exclusive" sharptail hunting is found in North Central to North West Nebraska and on up to South Central South Dakota. That is the sharptail "sweetspot" of the US without much of the other upland birds. However, I think this could be said for some parts of Montana and perhaps West Central North Dakota. If I had choice to hunt opening day next fall exclusively for shartail, it would be on either side of Hwy 61 between Merriman, NE and Hyannis, NE.