thank you
thats what i cant figure out, our place is well over any minimum size requirement but i doubt we'll be able to get tags every year. where im from if you have a big farm and a ton of deer on it you just go down to the tax collectors office and buy a permit.

seems you have to plan the rest of your life around the application process in SD. You have to wait to see if you draw before you tell your wife... we're going hunting or we're going skiing..... and if we dont go hunting this year we'll have a better chance of going next year... if we dont die between now and then.

the aggravating thing is this...
the actual $155 permit is less than 5% of my total cost of the hunting trip.
with travel, work arrangements, finding a place to stay, and everything else the actual pemit is peanuts but everything else depends on it and it forces you to make last minute arrangements.

any help is appreciated