UGUIDE Week 1 Harvest Report By Camp

October 22, 2014 by UGUIDE South Dakota Pheasant Hunting

UGUIDE 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 media reports to give the pheasant hunter a better idea of what is going on around the state of South Dakota, and more importantly, at UGUIDE Pheasant Camps.

Keep in mind that fair chase 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 Oct. 19, 2014 - Soybeans - 88%, Corn - 19%, Sorghum - 48%, Sunflowers - 11%

Week 1 Results and Comments  (Numbers posted in average pheasants harvested per person per day in .5 increments +/- .25).  This DOES NOT include unrecovered birds.

Pheasant Harvest Totals are in (  # of total pheasant harvested )

# of unrecoverable birds is new data in 2014 and will also be noted in  (    )

Please Note: Faulkton is a 4 day hunt and rest of camps are 3 day hunts

Tier 1

Faulkton - 3.0 average per day,  harvested birds total = 120,  unrecoverable birds total = 16

Upland Ringneck - 0.5 average per day,  harvested birds total = 14,  unrecoverable birds total = 3

West River Adventures - 3.0 average per day, harvested total = 153, unrecoverable birds total = 10

Wolf Creek - 3.0 per day, harvested total = 94, unrecoverable birds total = 8

Tier 2

J Bar Lazy 7 - 2.0 average per day, harvested total = 32, unrecoverable birds total = 6

Pheasant Camp Lodge - 2.5 average per day, harvested total = 47, unrecoverable birds total = 10

Tier 3

Gunner's Haven - 1.0 day, harvested total = 29, unrecoverable birds total = 4

The Boar's Nest - Non-UGUIDE group.  No report until week 2.

Tier 4

Cattail Haven - Non-UGUIDE group.  No report until week 2.

Meadow Creek - 3.0 average per day, harvested total = 68, unrecoverable birds total = 12

Old Bank Lodge - 1.0 average per day, harvested total = 29, unrecoverable birds total = 6

Comments:  Opening Day found conditions to be dry and warm.  Success on opener was higher as Sunday brought warm temps and some camps struggled.  Opening day found most of soybeans harvested with corn and sublfower harvest just beginning.