Lots of land in the Black Hills. That’s what my tag was for. Local folks were easy to talk to and pretty dang helpful actually. Ryan was the most helpful. There were literally deer everywhere I looked for them. The buck to doe ratio was lots of does. Lol. Sometimes I’d see 7 or 8 at a crack. Even in the woods. One thang that surprised me with the bucks was they could climb like billy goats if they had to. I also saw them in areas I wouldn’t have normally looked but would be driving to take a look at a burn or cool looking rocks or something and I’d jump deer. It was an amazing trip. Exactly what I had hoped for.
The thing with the locals is they road hunted. I hunted starting on opening morning which was a Thursday. I didn’t see any other hunters until Saturday morning. We didn’t see any deer hunters even when we were scouting the week prior. They get a month to hunt with a black hills tag, so they didn’t really get after it until the weekend.
It’s an awesome, beautiful place that I will hunt as much as possible.
