Testimonials
Boyt, Theresa & Jan,
The two days of your 3 on 1 personalized hospitality, amazing pheasant hunting, and relaxed company have expanded my horizons for sport hungint - and for the good life. You've spoiled me rotten and I can't wait till you do it again!
Thank you,
Scott Irwin - Emporia, Kansas
November 9th had finally arrived, Terry Cullender, Jay Phillips, Don Ambrose and Dick Coupe had been waiting two months for this day. It was the day they packed up and started for Young’s hunting Service at Hamill, South Dakota to hunt wild pheasants, not the pen raised and released birds that most hunters now find when hunting. They arrived in Hamill on November 11th for a two day hunt. This was the first stop on a six day hunt in South Dakota and Kansas.
The Young’s are a family hunting operation. They provide room, meals and guide service for their hunters. Jan, the person that does most of the guiding has a pair of excellent German Wirehair pointers that found all of our birds for us. It was great dog work. This operation is outstanding and is much more relaxed and enjoyable than the commercial operations in South Dakota. The Young’s make you feel at home and a part of the family. The view from their home is fantastic with mule deer up the mountain on the north side and pheasants running in and out of cover on the flat to the south.
Hunting started at 10:00 AM on Wednesday. Our first walk was in a big CRP patch that had not been hunted for a couple of days. Cornfields were within two hundred yards of this grass patch. As the walkers got near the end of the field, the pheasants started boiling out of the grass. Shots rang out, it sounded like GPGC on skeet night and when the firing was over six birds lay on the ground. The limit in South Dakota per person is three birds per day, so we picked up and went to the milo food plots that Boyt Young planted to attract, feed and keep birds on his property. As we walked these food plots, pheasants kept getting up and the shooting continued. We would get one or two birds every time we walked one the plots. By 1:00 PM we had our limit. We saw a great number of birds. Hunters in a field close by flushed many, many birds from the cornfields. Dick Coupe who had been hunting pheasants for many years stated that he had never seen as many birds in one day as we saw on this day’s hunt.
On the second day, we hunted a different part of Boyt’s farm. The cover consisted of milo plots, grass patches and big weed patches along fences and ditches. The day was very warm and the birds did not hold very well. A lot of the birds were in unharvested cornfields where we could not get to them. Most of the birds that we did get up flushed well ahead of us so we had a lot of walking to do to get our birds. All came through with great shots at long distance or on crossing birds. It did take us longer on the second day to get our limit. We had to hunt until 2:30 PM to get our limit out. It was a great hunt.
The South Dakota season ends on December 31st, Boyt has a number of open days left for this season if anyone is interested in a great hunt. Believe me, there are a lot of birds left for those that want to hunt. Boyt and Theresa may be reached at 605-842-0308.
We left for Kansas on Friday the 13th. The date left us with a feeling of foreboding about the hunting in Kansas. We were right; the hunting and weather were not as good as in South Dakota. But that story is for another day.