Originally Posted By: FairChase93It must be a regional thing. If you were handing out business cards around here for coyote hunting you'd get laughed right back into your vehicle. In fact just knocking on doors can be a risky proposition when it comes to asking permission to hunt even for coyotes. You very well might get a but chewing generally not but its not unheard of. I'm not saying what you guys are doing is wrong just that its not the way it works around here.
Its also rural South Dakota and I could tell you who lives at every ranch for a 100 miles in either direction even if we've never spoken before. Finding a property thats not locked down by someone else can be tricky itself. A wide majority of the properties I hunt which is quite a few I gained through dealings with my small business.
Fairchase93, i am considering a move back to SD (Sioux Falls, where i left 26 years ago due to marriage) in the next year and a half/2 years for health reasons. i know that Minnehaha county plates are, well, to put it mildly are thought of as the "anti-christ" by all the other counties, especially the rural ones for political reasons. Is this the main reason land owners are so against outside (non-local county) hunters or is it because of a few disrespectful "hunters" that are ruining it? or is some of it that the land owners lease most of the land out for high dollar? and this is a serious question and in no way saying that any of these reasons are me attacking the land owners, im just trying to figure stuff out if i actually want to move back. thank you!