South Dakota muley country (pics)

[ridgetop]

LAST EDITED ON Sep-25-04 AT 07:04AM (MST)[p]LAST EDITED ON Sep-25-04 AT 07:01?AM (MST)

Here is some muley country most people on here havent seen. I was in the SE part of the state visiting family. I had a couple of free early morning hours to get my first muley fix for the year, and headed for the Missouri river breaks . I ended up spotting about 20 muleys on public land in a couple hours that morning with my binos and spotter with very little effort. 8 were bucks, but nothing of any consequence. Mostly forkies, and a few little 3-4 points. I have seen some dandies in the past near here, on private land though. Bucks from this area generally arent ever going to reach B&C proportions, but some decent ones do come out of this area.

A slice of the area where I spotted all the deer.

Another equally good, different muley area, but this was taken on more of a family afternoon trip. I've spent a lot of time on the river (Lake Francis Case) in the background ever since I was a kid. Near a very good private deer ranch your friends at RT have hunted in the past. Psst, this general area is a great whitetail area as well...

 

[AZbowhntr]

I love the country in the 1st picture. Both are great pictures.

 

[MichaelJ]

Looks like my fav. type of country to hunt! Great pics.

Michael~All Gods creatures welcome... right next to the mashed potatoes and gravy.

 

[3DEER]

I drew a South Dakota Blackhills deer tag for Nov. There is a good population of mule deer and alot of whitetail. I can take either one. It's going to be fun.

 

[DeerKing]

Great looking country Bert. Hope you get a chance to hunt there sometime. Great glassin' country!

 

[berto]

beautiful country, thanks for the pics!

guess it makes sense that the breaks of the mo in sodak aren't near as steep as the ones where i'm from (upriver)...i'm a bit slow in the head...

here is a pic of the area of the mo breaks where i hunt muleys...

 

[ridgetop]

Thats some great looking muley country as well. Looks like a lot of places West river in SD in the smaller feeder rivers. Lots of places for a buck to hide in badlands type stuff like that. There are muleys East of where I took the pics, but they are few and further between the further once you get very far from the river. I could show you some of the Missouri River breaks near where I whitetail deer and turkey hunt in Northwest Missouri, but the vegetation is just a touch different once you go south from where the pics were taken into Nebraska... mostly because of this strange substance that falls from quite regularly from the sky called "rain" .

Yeah Jeff, that would be fun to hunt just for a fun hunt, and really it would be a better than average place for a better than really good public land whitey, but my out of state big-game efforts are pretty focused on my favorite rectangular State a little more directly West of where I'm at, where the air is thinner, the hills are slightly steeper and higher, and the muley bucks tend to get a little bigger... . I can buckle down and get serious about hunting really big whitetail when my body gets too old and broke down to hike the mountains... :0.