Pheasant Hunting in South Dakota

Public Walk-In Program

A Do-It-Yourselfers Paridise

South Dakota offers the free-lance hunter the oppertunity to experience wing shooting at its finest. explore with us the tips and products you will need to get started on what could be the wing shooting trip of a life time.

 So you are planning a trip for Pheasant Hunting in South Dakota. Hold on to your hat, because with over 10,000,000 birds this is a Pheasant Hunting utopia.

Click here for a great pair of Pheasant Hunting Pants

These birds were taken on private land open to the public through the walk-in program
There are a couple of ways you can go about Pheasant Hunting in South Dakota. If you have the funds available a great alternative is to go through one of the many full services lodges that are available throughout central and eastern South Dakota. These lodges are relatively ease to find by doing a simple google search on your computer and inserting South Dakota Pheasant Hunting Lodges. This should give you a wide choice of facilities and price ranges.

Click here for a great Pheasant Hunting Vest

If you don’t have the finances or like the challenge of Pheasant Hunting in South Dakota on your own, you should look into the South Dakota Walk-In Program. This program has been establish to

1. Provide the public with added quality hunting opportunities.

2. Improve relationships between landowners and hunters.

3. Improve hunter ethics.

Presently there are over 2,000,000 acres enrolled in the Walk-In Access program, generally most of these properties a CRP fields with good standing cover.

Dogs are a great help in finding birds in the deep cover of CRP fields
One of the other requirements of the program, is that the minimum size for enrollment is 80 acres.

Click here for a great pair of Pheasant Hunting Boots

A requirement of all parcels that are enrolled in the program is that they are signed with the official State of South Dakota Walk-In Program sign. This consistent signage make it very easy to identify those parcels that are available to Walk-In Pheasant Hunting in South Dakota.

All information regarding this program is available through the State of South Dakota. The easiest way to find the information and much, much more is do a google search on your computer and put in Pheasant Hunting in South Dakota Walk-In Program. You will be able to pull up web sites and maps that will give you all of the information necessary to locate all of the walk-in parcels. These maps are down loadable, or you find the information needed to contact the State of South Dakota Department of Natural resources (DNR) regarding the Walk-In Program maps, licences fees, season dates, bag limits etc...

most states in areas with huntable pheasant populations do have some sort of walk-in program that allows public access to private land. Follow the same procedures for the particular state that you are interested in hunting and you should be able to find all of the necessary information.

Remember that the walk-in programs no matter what state or where they are is public access to private land they are a partnership between the hunting public and a private landowner. This is a privilege not an entitlement and should be treated as such. If these programs are abused we will all loose the opportunity to hunt these private lands.

I hope this information has been helpful, now go out and enjoy Pheasant Hunting in South Dakota the do-it-yourself way.