Are You Going To South Dakota Pheasant Hunting

[Whitefeather]

We’re in South Dakota now. Not hunting but visiting my family. Crop harvest is about 50% done on corn and beans, sunflowers are about 90% done, and milo is about 10%. It’s been terrible dry all year. Lots of the stock ponds are dry. We’ve seen 2 pheasants in 3 days of driving around, which is usually low.

 

[Tight Lines]

We’re in South Dakota now. Not hunting but visiting my family. Crop harvest is about 50% done on corn and beans, sunflowers are about 90% done, and milo is about 10%. It’s been terrible dry all year. Lots of the stock ponds are dry. We’ve seen 2 pheasants in 3 days of driving around, which is usually low.

Well I've been opening day enough to know that some years, some decades, are better than others...hope it shapes up before next weekend! How far from Winner are you?

 

[Whitefeather]

Well I've been opening day enough to know that some years, some decades, are better than others...hope it shapes up before next weekend! How far from Winner are you?

We are in Chamberlain now. Winner is about 40 miles south. We actually rode out that way to a little spot called Hamil today.

 

[Whitefeather]

Good luck to all you fellas heading up next week. Lots of road projects between here and there so safe travels.

I love this place and never even brought a shotgun.

 

[Tight Lines]

Well it was a good trip...can't wait to make it back...

 

[bluedog71]

Great first day today. Full 4 man limit.

 

[bluedog71]

Last day was pretty good. Ended our trip with a total of 26 pheasants and 17 chickens.

 

[Tight Lines]

Last day was pretty good. Ended our trip with a total of 26 pheasants and 17 chickens.

Nice! We only saw a few chickens, didn't take any...

 

[SoDak12]

Been a great season so far at Perry River Ranch near Presho, SD. It’s been fun to see the bird numbers we have so far! Good luck to all hunters this season and welcome to those who are here now.

 

[bluedog71]

Nice! We only saw a few chickens, didn't take any...

I bet we seen 100’s every day on the ranch that we hunted. Noticed a pattern of them flying to the same field everyday at around 9:00am and about 5:30-6:00pm. We laid out in the field and shot them like geese. Didn’t seem to be bothered by our orange vest nor my truck sitting in the field. I could have sit on the back of the truck and shot a limit all 3 days we were there.

Anybody got a good recipe for these? I grilled some last year like a dove popper and they were tasty. Maybe beer can chicken on the egg???

 

[redriverpete]

Head out in just a couple weeks!

Chamberlin, SD to be exact. This will be my 2nd trip there and highly recommended to all who might inquire about it. I can already hear those faint rooster cackles in my sleep.

Just got back Monday. Hunted Korkow Ranch in Pierre. Lots of birds. Great setup and hospitality. Other guys I hunted with had been there before but it was my first time. I recommend them for sure.

 

[deerslayer357]

Headed out Wednesday morning to Aberdeen. Thursday weather forecast looks menacing. 3-5” snow during day with 20-35mph winds and 5-8” more Thursday night. Hoping to arrive Thursday around noon, but May try to push it up a little to beat the weather.

 

[GAbuckhunter88]

Heading to Gregory Thursday and the weather is looking rough for this GA boy.

Snow Thursday
Friday is high or 19 low of 1 and windy
Saturday is about the same.

Not sure how to prepare for that haha

 

[deerslayer357]

Heading to Gregory Thursday and the weather is looking rough for this GA boy.

Snow Thursday
Friday is high or 19 low of 1 and windy
Saturday is about the same.

Not sure how to prepare for that haha

Not only snow, but 5-8” and blizzard conditions. Low on Saturday is -7 in Aberdeen. Lots of wind proof layers is all I know.

 

[deerslayer357]

SoDak 2022 was an interesting one. Winter storm dropped 1/2” of ice around Aberdeen the morning we got there. Hunted Fri/Sat/Sun. Figured out how to hunt in all this ice Saturday evening and then started doing much better. Tall Standing corn or sunflowers were better than sloughs and shorter crops like milo.

Here are a few pics

 

[hoffy]

A late trip in December. Hand County, Miller SD

I live in Hand County, there are a lot of pheasants and a few grouse around here. You won’t have any problem finding them. Good luck

 

[mecicon]

Not the end of the day, but a picture to capture a friendship.

From left to right: Me, son and a friend from Thunder Bay Ontario.

By the way, 90% of any lodge, or guided operation has a mixture of pen-raised and wild birds. You can tell by their beak, if you can see through their beak (side to side) they are NOT wild. They may be liberated and act more wild but at some point they were hatched in a pen.

For every 1 bird taken the operator must replace with 2 birds.

 

[Fishin & Hunting]

Well, my trip to South Dakota was canceled because of weather. Will have to wait till next year.