Now, here is a hunt worth getting excited about. It’s for whitetail deer in an area of North Dakota where the odds of being drawn for a nonresident rifle permit are as dismal as the deer are big. Seems an outfitter I just heard about, Jerry Brooks of Sheldon’s Whitetail Deer, Waterfowl and Upland Game Bird Hunts, has acquired 20 nonresident rifle permits to hunt the 247,000-acre Spirit Lake Sioux Indian Reservation about 60 miles south of the Canadian border near Devil’s Lake. The word is, these hunts should offer a very good opportunity to harvest a buck ranging as high as 140 to 160 B & C, with the possibility of taking a buck of a lifetime. Brooks says a guide he has put under contract this year led a hunter in this area to a buck last year that field-scored 185 B & C....
