Dec. 31: Black Hills Archery Season Closes, Archery Tags Convert to Antlerless

12/12/05  -  PIERRE, S.D. – Important changes become effective to the state’s archery deer season on Dec. 31. On that date, the archery deer hunting season closes in the Black Hills, and that is the last day South Dakota archers can harvest a buck deer.

Although the Black Hills closes to archery deer hunting after Dec. 31, the archery deer season will still be open in most of the rest of the state through Jan. 31 for antlerless deer harvest only.

“On Jan. 1, all unfilled archery ‘any deer’ licenses convert to ‘antlerless deer’ licenses and are valid through the end of January,” said GFP Regional Law Specialist Bruce Nachtigall of Rapid City. “Also, Archers who still have unfilled antlerless deer archery licenses for the 2005-06 season can continue to hunt antlerless deer in any area open to archery hunting through Jan. 31.”

In addition to the Black Hills, other areas closed to archery hunting after Dec. 31 include:

One-tag and two-tag antlerless archery deer licenses will be available through the end of the archery season either by online application or by paper application, both of which are available via the GFP website at www.sdgfp.info.
 

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