South Dakota Deer · ERD-32A Hamlin County

South Dakota ERD-32A covers 344,190 acres and lies 16 miles south of Watertown and 25 miles west of Clear Lake. 3% of it is public land. In 2025, hunters took 288 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
3%

2% State

Size
538 mi²

344,190 acres

Watertown Clark ERD-32A

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

Every License in ERD-32A

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-32A-01, ERD-32A-13, ERD-32A-19.

Harvest

White-tailed Deer

Year Deer
2025 (summed) 288
2024 (summed) 351
2023 (summed) 439

Mule Deer

Year Deer
2025 (summed) 0
2024 (summed) 0
2023 (summed) 0

2025 split: firearm 288 (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 2025; a year's total is the sum of published weapon rows, added only where the lines do not overlap. Hunter counts not published for 2025. 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 332,529 ac 97%
State land 8,264 ac 2%
Other public 3,395 ac <1%
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