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[Larryjk]

dakotah, I will give you a few facts about myself.
(1) I have never hunted from a tree stand, but I would like the experience.
(2) I have never hunted deer in S. Dakota but I am moderately familiar with that state. I grew up in Nebraska and hunted the sand hills, the eastern edge of the hills, and some of the hills of Stanton County.
(3) I lived in Colorado for 10 years and hunted all over the western half of that state. Now I live in Wyoming (35 years) and have a fair amount of hunting experience in that state.
I think I have enough experience to say I can handle anything North America has to offer. I have also hunted in Texas and Oregon and spent time in Alaska. I don't consider myself the great white hunter, but I can hold my own with pistol, rifle or shotgun. I have never shot a deer in the shoulder, but through the heart and through the lungs. I have also shot a large number in the head but not sport hunting. I don't know how many because I have kind of quit hunting deer. One winter I had the experience of control shooting about 75 head and it kind of ruined deer hunting for me. I have hunted moose, elk, whitetail and mule deer, antelope and one fallow deer, and taken them all, most more than once.
I don't know what you are so darn worked up about. Let's just leave it at that.