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HOW TO CONTACT AA SOUTH DAKOTA PHEASANT HUNTING
Dayle Luedeke, Owner
Little River Hunting Guide Services
14497 395th Ave
Stratford, SD 57474
8am to 5pm M-F
(605)395-7798 Cell Phone
(605)395-6927 Lodge with voice mail available for messages.
Please call and leave a voice message, and or email message
Email:
littleriver@nrctv.com

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READ SOME OF OUR CUSTOMERS COMMENTS

Paul & Dale

My son and I went out there in September 2007 and had a wonderful time and hunt. Everyone was very nice to be around and talk too. This was Clark's graduation present from high school. On the way home to Roanoke Va. we were talking and he said this was the best present he could hope for. Thanks for the memories that were created. The lodge was a very nice place to stay in. Daisy and Gunner worked so well that I felt guilty that they did their job with style and I missed birds.

                    Thanks again
                       Rick K.  Roanake, VA

Jason

Paul,
I wanted to give you an update on Lizzie. First of all I want to thank you for delivering a dog that was everything and more than you promised. I made at least 50 phone calls looking for the GSP with the temperment to be an inside dog, and the drive to be a guide dog. Lizzie has been awesome with my 2 yr old girls, and an absolute pleasure in the house. In the field she has been phenomenal. I had her hunting within a week of her arrival. She has progressed beyond all expectations and is now finished. When I was training, I would release 30 chukar in a 100 acre field, and every time she would find 95%-100% of the birds released. If anyone is looking for a GSP with natural retrieve, you need to turn them onto that line. I have worked with labs for years, and she has as much drive to retrieve as any field lab I have seen. Thanks for letting go of an exceptional dog. I will be passing your name on to people who ask about her. 

Jason

Little River is without a doubt the best Hunting Lodge we have ever been at. The people were all great. Great food. Fabulous dogs and the accommodations were comfortable and relaxing.

Little River has more to offer then we ever hoped for. We have hunted at six different Pheasant Hunting Lodges in the last 14 years and there is no reason for us to ever look for another one. We will be hunting at this lodge for many years to come.

I can't say enough about all the fun we had. This place is awesome. I think I enjoyed watching the dogs hunt more then shooting our limits in pheasants. We even shot close to our limit's in partridge two of the days. Without these fabulous dogs it wouldn't of been nearly as entertaining as it was. 

We had our own dog there and he learned so much just hunting with the great dogs they have, I could hardly believe he was the same dog when we had to leave.

The dog trainer and guide Paul asked me if I wanted him to use any of his dogs or if I wanted to just hunt my dog by himself for awhile. My dog is young and I thought it might be better if he was in the field by himself. He did get up a few birds but wasn't able to quite figure out those wiley ringnecks.

Once Paul put a few of his dogs in the field my lab had many more opportunities for retrieves and he actually learned to quarter better in front of me and even figured out how to rustle out the birds better. I cannot believe how well those dogs listen to Paul. He doesn't even use a shock collar on most of them. 

It started to get a little late in the day on our third day and one of the groups were several birds short of their limit. I went out with Paul to just help walk and to see if I could learn anything about handling dogs. 

This group of guys didn't have any dogs with them and I believe there were eight or nine hunters total. One nice thing they also did was give us the choice of hunting with another group or by ourselves. You don't always get that option at other places and we enjoyed being by ourselves this time.

I don't know how, but Paul was using six German Shorthair's at once and they were fabulous. I have no idea how he kept them all straight in his head but none of them got too far ahead and they all did great. It is amazing to watch a dog find a bird and point and have two or three others stop and point right behind the dog that found the bird. He told me this was called honoring when the other dogs stop, freeze and back up the dog that found the bird. 

He just pops the whistle and they all turn around and go the other direction and cross each other. Sometimes he just says hupp and they all turn around right away and head in the other direction. I have no idea how he got them to do this but it was very impressive and exciting to watch.

My dog had more opportunities to retrieve and find birds in three days then he did the entire rest of the season in Wisconsin, and I took him out a lot. We have a few pheasants but nothing like this place.

We got done early one day so Paul loaded us all up and we headed about 40 miles away from the lodge to go Sharptail Grouse hunting. I have never shot a Sharptail before. I had my chance but of course I blew it. The group did kill several that afternoon though. They are as hard to hit as pheasants. I was under the impression they didn't fly as fast as a pheasant but boy was I wrong.

He did this just so we had something else to do for the rest of the afternoon. They didn't charge us one extra nickel for taking us to a different spot to hunt a totally different bird.

The owner Dayle and main guide Paul go way above and beyond the call of duty. Dayle is one of the nicest guys you will ever come across. This is a first class outfit and I would recommend it to anyone. The meals are great. The cooks name is Roper, and he can cook!

If you want a pheasant hunt in the Dakota's you will remember for a long time this is the place to go. I can also tell you that the price is very inexpensive compared to what we normally had to pay at other lodges for what we received.

We had been at lodges that were a little less money up front but didn't have half to offer as Little River. Everything is included in one price. Many of the other lodges actually ended up costing us more after they nickeled and dimed us for every other little thing they could think of. 

Our birds were cleaned, washed, bagged and in the freezer before supper was even on the table. We went down to help out cleaning the birds about 45 minutes after the hunt and everything was already done.

I can't say enough about Little River. If you want to have a great time and enjoy a hunt you will never forget then try out Little River. You will love it. I guarantee it.

We will be there again this year. We are trying to swing it so we can be there for a five day hunt this year. I can't hardly wait!

Jerad in Wisconsin

Ron in Georgia

JOHN ABERDEEN 
South Dakota