The daily bag limit for pheasants on shooting preserves is 20 male pheasants from the beginning of the hunting preserve season through the end of the statewide pheasant season, as described in § 41:06:08:01. From the end of the statewide pheasant season through the end of the private shooting preserve season, the daily bag limit is 15 male pheasants. Daily bag limits for male pheasants established in this section do not apply from September 1 through the end of the statewide pheasant season on a licensed shooting preserve if a resident possesses a combination license or a nonresident possesses a nonresident small game license. A person hunting in a group may only be exempt from daily bag limits if all persons in the group are exempt from daily bag limits. The daily bag limit for wild turkeys is 2 birds.

The shooting hours are restricted to sunrise to sunset each day.

Source: 13 SDR 26, effective September 10, 1986; 23 SDR 20, effective August 13, 1996; 25 SDR 193, adopted July 19, 1998, effective July 1, 1999; 31 SDR 191, adopted May 18, 2005, effective April 1, 2006; 36 SDR 39, effective September 23, 2009; 47 SDR 27, effective September 15, 2020; 47 SDR 38, effective October 6, 2020.

General Authority: SDCL 41-2-18(2)(16) , 41-10-16.

Law Implemented: SDCL 41-2-18(2)(16) , 41-10-2 , 41-10-11 , 41-10-16.

Prior versions effective: 2020-09-15, 2009-09-23.