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I've heard similar from Jonesy statement. $100/day - 3 day minimum. But I do know a couple of guys that were charging us $25 - $50 a day per person to shoot unsupervised on their land in the White River and Vivian areas. Just be sure to let them know if you tap a fence line so they can get it fixed soon enough.

One of them raised his rate to from $25 to $50/day because his neighbor is one of the high dollar joints charging $100/day 3 day minimum and he now wants to cash in. Sort of like every pheasant farmer does in Eastern So Dak. The high dollar joints did have lots of dogs though but if they're running a 4 hour/day scam I'd stay away myself.

The other guy had a few thousand acres of land containing dogs but he did run through them all with poison 2 years ago and I haven't checked back since to see if they're on the rebound yet or not. At the time the kill rate on poison was guaranteed to be about 90%.

Send me your email address and I'll get the phone names and phone numbers for you. It would be worth the call to see what the latest news is and maybe make some plans for 2007.

Public land = Buffalo National Grasslands are huge and open to shooting dogs for a specific time of the year. You'd have to look at the So Dak Game Fish and Parks website to get those dates. I've never tried the area but many have. I-90 runs through part of it in the Western part of the state.

There are walk-in areas but I've just learned from the state capitol that those walk-in areas are leased for public hunting of large game animals during the fall and winter months. After their seasons have ended some of the areas are reverted back to private land in which you need permission and possibly pay a fee to hunt. It's a mess since the walk-in guide books have never stated this fact and caused some confusion among shooters, myself included. Found out that we were officially trespassing on some land while shooting short dogs. No harm was done and the landowner simply asked us to pay a small fee then we were back to shooting.

It's getting harder and harder to find these places though. Don't take it personal if you run across an angry rancher or two. It just seems to be getting out of hand but most will work with you if they have dogs to be shot. Pests.