South Dakota Deer · ERD-12B Bon Homme County (portion, included in Unit 12A)

South Dakota ERD-12B covers 371,864 acres and lies 10 miles north of Springfield and 21 miles east of Wagner. 4% of it is public land. In 2024, hunters took 11 white-tailed deer here (sum of published weapon rows); hunter counts not published.

Tags
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0 licenses · NR capped at 8%

Applicants
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first choice, NR

Hunter Success
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not published

Public Land
4%

2% State

Size
581 mi²

371,864 acres

Springfield Wagner Yankton Freeman ERD-12B

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.

Every License in ERD-12B

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it

First-choice nonresident odds at your points, draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file. Not in the table, with no result: ERD-12B-13, ERD-12B-19.

Harvest

White-tailed Deer

Year Deer
2024 (summed) 11
2023 (summed) 23

Mule Deer

Year Deer
2024 (summed) 0
2023 (summed) 0

2024 split: firearm 11 (100%)

What South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks publishes no whole-unit line for 2024; a year's total is the sum of published weapon rows, added only where the lines do not overlap. Hunter counts not published for 2024. South Dakota's figures are Game, Fish and Parks post-season survey estimates, expanded from mandatory hunter reporting by the response rate — not a count of animals checked in. Source: SD GFP 2023-2025 Deer Harvest.

The Ground

Private 358,564 ac 96%
State land 6,775 ac 2%
Other public 6,524 ac 2%
State trust land 0 ac <1%

Source: SD GFP 2026 Hunt Unit Deer.

▸ Sources 2
  1. SD GFP 2023-2025 Deer Harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  2. SD GFP 2026 Hunt Unit Deer boundary, land ownership, area description, retrieved Sep 1, 2026

About These Numbers

Under five tags a percentage carries a *, because one applicant either way swings it. A dash means the agency did not publish the number, and a date marked expected is last cycle's schedule rolled forward. How we compute these.

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We don't take applications: check South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks's site and apply there.

Prior-draw odds from South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks' results, not a forecast · Methodology · All South Dakota deer hunts