South Dakota Deer — ERD-51A
Miner County
South Dakota ERD-51A covers 365,893 acres and lies 23 miles north-west of Salem. 2% of it is public land, mostly state land (1%). In 2025, hunters took 301 white-tailed deer here.
Your chance of drawing here
Every deer license type on offer in ERD-51A, 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-51A
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 359,538 ac · 98%
- State land 4,760 ac · 1%
- Other public 1,593 ac · 0%
- State trust land 0 ac · 0%
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 | 301 |
| 2024 | 327 |
| 2023 | 349 |
Mule Deer
| Season | Harvest |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 |
What people carried (2025 harvest)
- Firearm 301 · 100%
Harvest: Deer Harvest (Hunting/Harvest_Maps MapServer, layer 5) — per-unit post-season harvest, 2023-2025