[UniversalFrost]

ok, here is my secret ( I am from SD).

go to the springfield area and have the waterfowl hunt of your life. The missouri and niobrara rivers meet and the nobrara dumps a lot of silt into the missouri and forms loads of reed covered islands. The ducks geese, and swans are there by the millions since it is also where the flyways converge. You will need a flat bottom (jon) boat. If you go to the nebraska side you can rent one from the folks in niobrara. Also, the pheasant hunting in the area is pretty good as well, but they don't let strangers hunt the land mostly.
My folks still have a few thousand acres in the area, but they lease out their hunting rights and only allow family or the leasee on the property to hunt after some idiots from Sioux falls shot one of our horses a few years ago thinking it was a deer (wasn't even deer season). Luckily the horse survived and the idiot got busted for attempted poaching (admitted he thought it was a deer to the game warden) and for shooting within so many hundred feet of livestock etc...

If you really want good pheasant hunting head on out towards pierre and hunt some of the corn fields near winner .

Happy hunting.