Deer Hunting

 Your Next South Dakota Pheasant Hunting Vacation - Deer Hunting

Once you've done that for 20 years and you go through a few years when the pheasant shooting ain't real good it doesn't take the mind long to start to wonder if there are any better places to hunt pheasants than your usual local haunts.

UGUIDE receives many calls and guests from the Midwest. States like Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and Indiana are probably the most common origination points for a South Dakota pheasant hunting vacation. I suspect that the sad but true driver to the reason behind that growth is that what one day used to be great pheasant hunting has dwindled to a below average pheasant hunting experience in those deer hunting rules The price of farmland has gone up dramatically in those states in recent years and one can only speculate that farmers who were once able to "leave a little for the pheasants", now can no longer afford to do that. Seems that there is a relationship between skyrocketing land prices and farmland cash rents - the result: plummeting pheasant populations.

I'm not sure what the magic is behind South Dakota's seasonally high pheasant populations but a few factors separate this state from the rest:


Soil types - South Dakota's soil has high lime content which is supposedly good for nesting and hatching brood.
Habitat Cashflow - South Dakota dominates the commercial fee hunting business and than means farmers can afford to "leave a little" for the pheasants. Heck, they can afford to leave a lot! Habitat is everything.
CRP acres - Any state that has high CRP acres is where you will find the birds plain and simple. South Dakota has them. North Dakota has them too and that is no surprise why North Dakota is a sister state to South Dakota when it comes to being the king of pheasant destinations.
Land prices, rents and dirty farming - Thank God that some land in South Dakota just ain't real good for farming. When farm ground is not as productive and rents deer hunting rules lower then of course land prices are lower and the farmers aren't as bent on farming up to the fence lines or trying to plow under wetlands and slough or weedy areas to get them to pay.


South Dakotan's have long enjoyed to tourism business associated with their remote destination. For the most part they really enjoy pheasant hunters and pheasant hunting but the majority of resident farmers are not avid pheasant hunters. Now deer hunting, that is a whole different story.

I think it makes a big difference that pheasant hunting and the business of hunting pheasants has been in the culture of the state for so many years.

Bottom line is that if you love to pheasant hunt, and that look in your dogs eye is making you feel guilty about not getting him on more real wild birds, then you should look into making your next wild pheasant hunting vacation destination... South Dakota.

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