South Dakota Deer · ERD-61A Turner County

South Dakota ERD-61A covers 395,072 acres and lies 6 miles south of Parker. 1% of it is public land. In 2025, hunters took 26 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%
Size
617 mi²

395,072 acres

Parker Beresford Harrisburg Hartford Sioux Falls ERD-61A

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

Every License in ERD-61A

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-61A-01, ERD-61A-02.

Harvest

White-tailed Deer

Year Deer
2025 (summed) 26
2024 (summed) 43
2023 (summed) 83

Mule Deer

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

2025 split: firearm 26 (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 392,952 ac 99%
State land 1,126 ac <1%
Other public 993 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