UGUIDE Unguided South Dakota Pheasant Hunting Report Week 3
November 03, 2013 by UGUIDE South Dakota Pheasant Hunting
UGUIDE Pheasant Camps has begun to collect harvest data from each of its camps for each week and will post these results here on a weekly basis. We will do this in an effort to distinguish itself from speculative and non comprehensive reports to give the pheasant hunting a better idea of what is going on around the state and at UGUIDE pheasant camps.
Keep in mind that non-release pheasant hunting has a host of variables that can affect harvest success. Assume all data is for self-guided unguided pheasant hunts and where guided will be noted in the results. Unguided pheasant hunitng success can be affected dramitically by just a few of these variables: Crop harvest progress, dog skills, dog quantity, hunter skills, hunter quantity, shooting skills, daily weather, etc.
Weekly Crop Harvested Data from USDA Nov. 3, 2013 - Soybeans - 92%, Corn - 63%, Sorghum - 71%, Sunflowers - 31%
Weekly Crop Harvested Data from USDA Oct. 27, 2013 - Soybeans - 87%, Corn - 49%, Sorghum - 53%, Sunflowers - 27%
Week 3 Results and Comments (Numbers posted in average pheasants harvested per person per day in .5 increments +/- .25)
Pheasant Harvest Totals are in ( # of total pheasant harvested )
Faulkton is a 4 day hunt and rest of camps are 3 day hunts
Tier 1
Faulkton - 2.5 (105)
Upland Ringneck - 2.5 (Guided) (27)
West River Adventures - 2.0 (56)
Wolf Creek - Non-UGUIDE group - no report
Tier 2
J Bar Lazy 7 - 1.5 (27)
Roscoe-Hosmer - 2.0 (39)
Pheasant Camp Lodge - 0.5 (16)
Tier 3
Meadow Creek - 0.5 (6)
Old Bank Lodge - 0.5 (9)
The Boar's Nest - 2.0 (30)
Tier 4
Cattail Haven - 2.0 - (Guided) (25)
Gunner's Haven - Non-UGUIDE group - no report
Comments: Seeing a slight improvement in harvest success as crops come out. The biggest thing I have noticed by creating this report process is the variability of hunter success due to Fair Chase hunting conditions (comments on our survey sheets like: very windy that day, would have had limit if we could shoot straight, didn't hunt all day long, etc.)
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