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UGUIDE Week 6 Harvest Report By Camp

November 24, 2014 by

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 Nov. 23, 2014 - Soybeans - Complete, Corn - Complete, Sorghum - Complete Sunflowers - 86%,

Week 6 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 - No Groups Hunting

Upland Ringneck - Pending Report

West River Adventures - 2.5 average per day, harvested total = 59, unrecoverable birds total = 9

Wolf Creek - 2.0 average per day, harvested total = 52, unrecoverable birds total = 5

Tier 2

J Bar Lazy 7 - 2.5 average per day, harvested total = 53, unrecoverable birds total = 1

Pheasant Camp Lodge - 2.0 average per day, harvested total = 62, unrecoverable birds total =6

Tier 3

Gunner's Haven - 1.0 average per day, harvested total = 20, unrecoverable birds total =7

The Boar's Nest - 1.0 average per day, harvested total = 22, unrecoverable birds total =3

Tier 4

Cattail Haven - 2.5 average per day, harvested total = 36, unrecoverable birds total = 6

Meadow Creek - No Groups hunting week 6

Comments:  Harvest is complete and we are enperiencing some early winter weather which will push birds into heavier cover.