Tyleetness, you are absolutley correct that a good many birds shot in SD on so called shooting preserves are released birds. Most of them come from Wisconsin and Minnesota game farms. There is on of these great places between my place and where I usually hunt ducks. Quite often on the way home I run over a few of their birds that are sitting in the middle of the road. Guess they think the road is closer to the type of habitat they came from a day or two before. Having said that their is still a fair number of wild birds in the state also but you have to be a rich boy to be able to afford to hunt them anymore.