Start of South Dakota 2025-2026 season countdown

I don't know if I'm going to hunt SD this year. I just cancelled my room reservations for the second week. I am considering a change in venue. The area I've been hunting is SD hasn't been all that great the last couple of years. Too many hunters with twice as many dogs....week after week. Birds get a lot of pressure and I see more in the ditches than the fields. I've been scouting out a new place to hunt that seems to hold more birds and fewer hunters. Going to spend today working out the details and hopefully make some reservations. Much further drive and more remote but I won't know for sure until I give it a try.
Is it Kansas? Lol
 
Yeah ok go ahead and go to Iowa.
Iowa would be closer to me but I only bird hunt in IA when I buy a license to turkey or deer hunt. I can use the same license...so it's pretty cost effective. Not a lot of public land where I go and the fields are relatively small, but it's someplace to go for a long weekend.
 
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