South Dakota Deer · ERD-40A Jerauld County

South Dakota ERD-40A covers 340,662 acres and lies 29 miles south-west of Huron. 1% of it is public land. In 2025, hunters took 86 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
1%

<1% State

Size
532 mi²

340,662 acres

ERD-40A

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

Every License in ERD-40A

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-40A-11, ERD-40A-13.

Harvest

White-tailed Deer

Year Deer
2025 (summed) 86
2024 (summed) 189
2023 (summed) 198

Mule Deer

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

2025 split: firearm 86 (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 336,498 ac 99%
Other public 1,791 ac <1%
State land 1,736 ac <1%
State trust land 636 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