Badlands Hunting

[RiverRunner]

This year I drew a Whitetail buck tag for hunting the South Dakota Badlands. Has anyone hunted them before. What are numbers for Whitetail deer like? Where to hunt? Any info. anyone has would be greatly appreciated. Thanks much

[stockchopper]

What part of the badlands. I hunted antelope just south of wall last year and this year I'm going again. Didn't see any whitetail just alot of mulies.

[RiverRunner]

Hey Stockchopper

Our zone 302C in Pennington county east of the Cheyenne River to Hwy 240. South of I-90 to the Pine Ridge Reservation. We found some public land around the Cheyenne River near the Indian Creek area. In 3 hours of walking we saw 6 mule deer 1 whitetail doe, 12 antelope one was a big buck and small whitetail shed. So theirs Whitetail around just not sure how many. For Antelope I'd take a look at the Indian Creek area the only problem is you'll have to walk, no four wheelers are allowed in that area. Any other info. on this area for Whitetail would be greatly appreciated.

[stockchopper]

I'll be going out there Oct. 1, if I see and whitetails running I'll let you know. Last year we hunted for a total of 3 hours before we filled our tags, so we never bothered to venture that far west, since you saw antelope over there I'll check it out when we scout. Thanks for letting me know there antelope over there also.

[stockchopper]

Got our antelope, went looking for whitetail friday. Didn't see any around. I'm sure there is some, but you'll have to work hard and be lucky. Also I found a mulie shed in that area by indian creek.

[RiverRunner]

Hey StockChopper

Glad to hear you got your Antelope. How big were they, did you get them around the Indian Creek area? I saw a large antelope buck in that area. Indian Creek looks like a pertty cool area. Did some walking out their to and found a smaller whitetail shed and saw a whitetail doe. Will be hunting along the Cheyenne River out their so we should be able to get some shots at some Whitetail. Thanks for the Info. Does anyone else have any more info about Badlands Whitetails.

[stockchopper]

riverrunner, my dad got a 13 in I shot a little baby one, I had trouble hitting the bigger ones, found out when I got home my guns bolts were loose and the barrel was moving around, no wonder I couldn't hit anything. We didn't hunt over by the river, looked more like deer cover more than what antelope like, plus we didn't see any antelope when we scouted. I'm going to wyoming Wed. mule deer hunting, hope I get one.