I was in the black hills last weekend for the opener and it was a blizzard there. However we filled both our tags by noon on day two. Tons of turkeys and of the 100 square mile black hills national forest 80% of it is public. Best turkey hunting I have ever had but you have to get off the road a ways alot of guys just drove and tried to find them with no luck at all. Climb the hills and look for medows. Google earth helps with some of that type of scouting. However the meriams I have taken out there in the last 2 years have all had a more of a creamy tail than a pure white so I don't know if there is some hybrid to that or not I am not a biologist.

Good luck,
MC

Also if any one knows of a good place with public land to hunt rios I am really looking hard to junt them next year.