'Aight, how's SD?

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i like it here. yeah, it gets cold, which is good. it keeps the population down. the dumb ones get killed in the winter (and there's some every year)...

from a gunowner perspective? shall issue ccw. walk in, pay your $10, and walk out w/ it - can be used that minute to buy your gun - and it takes about 1 minute to get, and lasts 5 years. open carry is legal, and i see it from time to time, though not much. not out of the ordinary to see shotguns and rifles in the windows of trucks. every grocery store sells ammo. some sell rifles. every gas station sells ammo. some sell guns. every gunshop sells ammo and guns. some sell class 3, and some stock 50 bmg rifles.

ranges? yes.

jobs? depends on what you want to do. there's work around.

and saying 'aight', unless you are in sioux falls, will earn you no friends.

and to date, every politician in every election runs on a pro-gun platform (doesn't mean they'll stay that way, mind you - they are politicians after all, but...).
 
i forgot to mention... on the politician thing: if you want to meet your congress critter, it is a good bet they will make an appearance at a gun show. i've met/seen our junior senator john thune at gun shows every year, many times he's there w/ his girls (2 daughters and a wife).

tim johnson isn't quite as open about embracing guns since he's a Democrat, but he knows it would be political suicide to come out like tom daschle did against guns - just ask tom! in case you didn't know, thune unseated daschle last election...
 
I have been through the eastern half of the state. Here are some of my observations. Jobs don't pay as much. But the cost of living is lower too. Very gun friendly and guns aren't a big deal. I did run into some anti-outsider crap in a small restaurant.:eek: But the waitress told the old fart to either shut up or leave.:evil: Not to many young people in the countryside, mostly seniors. The Indian reservations are anti-white man. I listened to their radio stations. The Indians are pretty pissed. I don't blame 'em. So do not eat at the restaurants on the reservations. You could be eating a lugy hamburger.:barf: It's a very empty land. But I like that. No people. I would go back and explore some more.
 
SD has no state income tax. There is a property tax and you'll pay sales tax on ever'thing.

Gun owners don't have to hide in shame. Carry permits from other states - but not all states, I think - are honored there.

Good hunting - pheasant, deer, antelope. Good places to shoot prairie dogs. The locals are *not* fond of animal 'rights' activists and say so openly. This may not apply in the (one) big city but I don't go there.

SD is a Right To Work state - no need to be a union member to hold a job. Or, it was a few years ago; my info may be old. Jobs are there but are in proportion to the population. Tourism in the west - Rapid City & Badlands area; casino jobs elsewhere. Sioux Falls is the big city; jobs of all sorts are to be found there. Ranching is big in the west.

If I had to leave Minnesota, South Dakota is where I'd go. It's only 80 miles from me to the border as I type this.

JB
 
What are you looking for?

We've got lots of wide open spaces, varmints, deer, elk, mountain lion, bighorn sheep, a mountain goat or two, pheasants, grouse, whitetails, mulies, antelope, partridge, ducks, geese, cranes and swans. Walleye and bass aren't difficult to find. Lots of ranges, and lots of folk who haven't forgotten their bonds with the soil. We're growing quite a gun industry in the Black Hills in recent years.

Problems? Sure. Jobs aren't as plentiful and don't pay as well as on either coast. Economics are not good on the reservations. Got to travel farther to get from one city to another. Winters do get a might cool, but are quite survivable. We have some pretty hill country in the west, prairie in the middle split by a big ol' river, and a few trees in the east.

Like any other venue, it's what you make it. I suppose we all pay a price to live here, but for many of us, it's worth it even if we have to drive an old pickup instead of a freshly detailed beemer. You can be on an archery deer stand in 15 minutes from downtown Pierre, the Missouri River is about 200' from my front door, and I'll be shooting trap tonight in town, next to the soccer fields and softball complex. Life is good.
 
It's too cold. You definitely don't want to come here - unless you're honest, a hard worker, love guns and/or hunting, and are generally a good person. If so, we'd love to have you. I'd like to believe (and for the most part do) you won't find a better state in which to live.
 
yeah, it gets cold, which is good. it keeps the population down.
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Boy I wish people would think the same about Minnesota. A couple of cold, snowy winters and we'd see the outsiders run back to wherever they came from. ;)
 
ahh, but there's a difference in mn cold and s.d. cold... you guys have hills and trees. it stops the wind, and feels warmer than it actually is. we are devoid of hills and trees and other useless accoutrements, so it actually feels colder than it is.
 
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ahh, but there's a difference in mn cold and s.d. cold... you guys have hills and trees. it stops the wind, and feels warmer than it actually is. we are devoid of hills and trees and other useless accoutrements, so it actually feels colder than it is.
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You must live East River too.
 
yep.

- and i'm headed back to the sturgis area on wednesday to kick off my hunting seasons this year (unfortunately, i missed out on goats this year, elk too, but since i haven't drawn elk yet, i don't count it).
 
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The Indian reservations are anti-white man. I listened to their radio stations. The Indians are pretty pissed. I don't blame 'em.
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I didn't really understand the scale of how pissed they should be, until I visited the giant gold mine. :what:

Family vacation, and I thought it was pretty hot, to tell the truth, in the summer. We bagged a few pheasants ourself, with a station wagon.
 
I spent a large chunk of June 2002 in Rapid City. Dang it was HOT!
But I did manage to live through the most amazing thunderstorm of my life. It made 4th of July that year (in Vegas) rather anticlimactic.
 
Brick;

I did live, (was incarcerated), in SoDakia for the early years of my life. East of the river too. SoDakia is short on mountains, in fact, SoDakia is short on elevation changes period. Yes, there are some ups & downs & the state does show well against a pool table but compared to Idaho, it's G-D FLAT.

I have seen & lived through -60 below zero there. That's absolute, not including wind 'chill'. I have seen the first snow that falls in October be the last snow that melts in April. But I have also seen the sky quite literally darken from pheasants passing overhead. But that was years ago.

On the plus side, you can go to Sturgis in August & see anything you want to.

900F
 
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