South Dakota Deer — ERD-47A
McPherson County
South Dakota ERD-47A covers 736,602 acres and lies 42 miles north-west of Aberdeen and 58 miles west of Groton. 6% of it is public land, mostly state trust land (3%) and other public land (3%). In 2025, hunters took 457 white-tailed deer here.
Your chance of drawing here
Every deer license type on offer in ERD-47A, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.
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Other licenses valid in ERD-47A
Not in the table above because they had no result in the draw.
The country
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Who owns the ground
- Private 689,173 ac · 94%
- State trust land 21,699 ac · 3%
- Other public 20,957 ac · 3%
- State land 4,772 ac · 1%
How the hunting has gone
What South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks publishes these per hunt rather than per unit; the rows below add its own figures together, since a hunter holds one tag for the species in a season. 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.
White-tailed Deer
| Season | Harvest |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 457 |
| 2024 | 535 |
| 2023 | 553 |
Mule Deer
| Season | Harvest |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 |
| 2024 | 9 |
| 2023 | 6 |
What people carried (2025 harvest)
- Firearm 462 · 100%
Harvest: Deer Harvest (Hunting/Harvest_Maps MapServer, layer 5) — per-unit post-season harvest, 2023-2025