This record does not carry 3 regulations the state has. The declarations below are the record's own words.
kind: chart-axis — description: **The muzzleloader deer season is not carried, because this source does not state it.** The chart's axis runs September to November, and any season lying wholly outside that window has a blank row — Deer - Muzzleloader here. The string "Deer - Muzzleloader" appears exactly once in all 104 pages, on this chart, with nothing beside it. **Reading it would mean measuring a rectangle against a month scale**, which is how Texas lost 83 counties, so it is declared instead.
kind: cross-references — description: **Units, quotas and licence types are not carried.** South Dakota allocates deer licences by unit through a draw — East River, West River, Black Hills and Custer State Park each have their own units and quotas — and this chart gives only the statewide dates per season. The document that carries the units is the annual deer application, and `gfp.sd.gov/userdocs/docs/2026deer.pdf` **is a 404**: only the 2025 edition exists, so this compilation has no current source for them.
kind: cross-references — description: **Refuge deer seasons are named and not carried.** The chart's own entry reads "Varies by Refuge. See deer application" — the source pointing at the document above, which has not been published for 2026.
in season now Deer — Archery runs through 2027-01-01 · 2 hunts open today derived as of Sep 24
Do not take our word for it. The document every row on this page was read out of is one tap away, and checking us against it is exactly what the citation, the sha256 and the source lines under each row are for.
Open the source document → https://gfp.sd.gov/UserDocs/docs/huntingandtrappinghandbook.pdf#page=102If that document says something this page does not, the document is the regulation and this page is wrong. The copy we read is the one whose sha256 is above; if the publisher has replaced the file since 2026-08-08, yours will not match ours, and that difference is the thing worth knowing.
Sept. 1 - Jan. 1
open now ends 2027-01-01 · derived as of Sep 24
2026-09-01 → 2027-01-01 derived (year inferred)
| footnote_marker | |
|---|---|
| hunt | Archery |
These are the pages the adapter read for the whole state. This row was not narrowed to a page of its own.
Sept. 12 - Jan. 1
open now ends 2027-01-01 · derived as of Sep 24
2026-09-12 → 2027-01-01 derived (year inferred)
| footnote_marker | |
|---|---|
| hunt | Mentored/Youth/Apprentice |
These are the pages the adapter read for the whole state. This row was not narrowed to a page of its own.
Nov. 1-30
opens in 38 days derived as of Sep 24
2026-11-01 → 2026-11-30 derived (year inferred)
| footnote_marker | |
|---|---|
| hunt | Black Hills |
These are the pages the adapter read for the whole state. This row was not narrowed to a page of its own.
Nov. 14-29
opens in 51 days derived as of Sep 24
2026-11-14 → 2026-11-29 derived (year inferred)
| footnote_marker | 8 |
|---|---|
| hunt | West River |
These are the pages the adapter read for the whole state. This row was not narrowed to a page of its own.
Nov. 21 - Dec. 6
opens in 58 days derived as of Sep 24
2026-11-21 → 2026-12-06 derived (year inferred)
| footnote_marker | |
|---|---|
| hunt | East River |
These are the pages the adapter read for the whole state. This row was not narrowed to a page of its own.
Nov. 1-30
opens in 38 days derived as of Sep 24
2026-11-01 → 2026-11-30 derived (year inferred)
| footnote_marker | |
|---|---|
| hunt | Custer State Park |
These are the pages the adapter read for the whole state. This row was not narrowed to a page of its own.
| value | Varies by Refuge. See deer application. |
|---|
These are the pages the adapter read for the whole state. This row was not narrowed to a page of its own.
That is the direction that ends in a citation, or in a hunter on ground the state has closed. Read the signals below before you use any row on this page.
Derived by rule from this record's own declared gaps, its own integrity fields and its own rows. It is not a score and there is no confidence number: the counts below count signals, nothing more.
overOVER: the gap names a restriction, requirement, closure or supersession the record does not carry [limit_or_quota='quota']; a row read without it is broader than the regulation
unknown1 page boundary/boundaries beside the cited range were never inspected. A table that continues past a citation loses whole rows — the missing rows could be further seasons (under) or the restrictions on the ones published (over), and this is the check five states went OFFLINE for skipping.
underUNDER: the gap names an opportunity, season or allowance the record does not carry [season_not_carried='season is not carried']; the record's silence reads as a prohibition that the source does not state
underUNDER: the gap names an opportunity, season or allowance the record does not carry [season_not_carried='seasons are named and not carried']; the record's silence reads as a prohibition that the source does not state
carries_regulation flag at face value. A gap mis-declared as non-regulatory is a silent miss.Current through — the document this record was read from, and nothing later than it:
2026 South Dakota Hunting and Trapping Handbook, p.102, "2026-2027 HUNTING SEASONS"
We fetched it on 2026-08-08. That is our retrieval date, not a publication date. This record carries no date on which its publisher issued, adopted, amended or last revised that document, so this page states none. Any effective, issue or adoption date the document states of itself is inside the citation above, in the publisher’s own words — nothing here lifts it out or restates it as a fact of ours.
derived South Dakota declares 3 gaps, of which 3 are regulation this compilation does not carry.
chart-axis
**The muzzleloader deer season is not carried, because this source does not state it.** The chart's axis runs September to November, and any season lying wholly outside that window has a blank row — Deer - Muzzleloader here. The string "Deer - Muzzleloader" appears exactly once in all 104 pages, on this chart, with nothing beside it. **Reading it would mean measuring a rectangle against a month scale**, which is how Texas lost 83 counties, so it is declared instead.
derived family: figure/diagram/chart
Who does have it
Not us. South Dakota’s agency publishes the document this record was read from, and that document — not this page — is where the material above has to be chased:
https://gfp.sd.gov/UserDocs/docs/huntingandtrappinghandbook.pdf#page=102Where the description above names some other document, register, office or telephone number, that naming is the record’s own and is printed in full above. Nothing here has followed it up for you, and nothing here has re-typed it.
cross-references
**Units, quotas and licence types are not carried.** South Dakota allocates deer licences by unit through a draw — East River, West River, Black Hills and Custer State Park each have their own units and quotas — and this chart gives only the statewide dates per season. The document that carries the units is the annual deer application, and `gfp.sd.gov/userdocs/docs/2026deer.pdf` **is a 404**: only the 2025 edition exists, so this compilation has no current source for them.
derived family: cross-reference
Who does have it
Not us. South Dakota’s agency publishes the document this record was read from, and that document — not this page — is where the material above has to be chased:
https://gfp.sd.gov/UserDocs/docs/huntingandtrappinghandbook.pdf#page=102Where the description above names some other document, register, office or telephone number, that naming is the record’s own and is printed in full above. Nothing here has followed it up for you, and nothing here has re-typed it.
cross-references
**Refuge deer seasons are named and not carried.** The chart's own entry reads "Varies by Refuge. See deer application" — the source pointing at the document above, which has not been published for 2026.
derived family: cross-reference
Who does have it
Not us. South Dakota’s agency publishes the document this record was read from, and that document — not this page — is where the material above has to be chased:
https://gfp.sd.gov/UserDocs/docs/huntingandtrappinghandbook.pdf#page=102Where the description above names some other document, register, office or telephone number, that naming is the record’s own and is printed in full above. Nothing here has followed it up for you, and nothing here has re-typed it.
100.0% of chart rows on the seasons page, each a label and its printed date range
derived: this percentage is over the units named above, on the pages this record cites. It is not a percentage of the state's regulation. The gaps above are what a full percentage would have to count and cannot.
These are not gaps.
The Booklet is not the law and is not an official edition of any state’s regulations: no state agency writes, reviews, publishes or approves it, and where a page here differs from the agency document it cites, the agency document is the regulation and this page is wrong.
It is an editorial compilation of state agency regulation documents: every row is carried verbatim out of one named document, cited by title, identified by the sha256 of the exact bytes we read, and printed beside the source lines it was read from.