Eaton Ranch is a 920-acre DIY trophy mule deer and whitetail rifle hunting property near Dupree, South Dakota, in Ziebach County and West River deer Unit 64A.

The ranch is mixed-grass prairie at roughly 2,400 feet, cut by a network of draws and creek bottoms and topped with eroded breaks and natural buttes. Two water features, including a 2-acre lake, give wildlife dependable water all season. It is classic rifle country: glass long distances from the high ground, find a mature buck bedded in the breaks or working a draw, and plan your stalk.

This is an exclusive 5-day hunt. One party of up to two hunters has the entire ranch, with no other hunters on the property. Park at the stock area 1.2 miles off Iron Lightning Road and use the ranch's two-track roads to retrieve game by vehicle. Portable stands and ground blinds are allowed.

The hunt runs during the November West River rifle season, right during the rut. It is for mule deer bucks scoring 161" or better and whitetail bucks scoring 141" or better. You will need a Unit 64A deer license from SD Game, Fish and Parks, where license holders posted a 65% success rate in 2025.

Mule deer are the predominant species on the ranch, with whitetails on the same ground. Mule deer bed in the breaks around the buttes, using the high ground to watch for danger, while creek bottoms and draws hold deer during the day and serve as travel corridors to feed and water.

For a rifle hunter, the buttes and breaks are the key: they give you long views across the draws and open prairie, making spot-and-stalk hunting productive. The 2-acre lake and second water feature are reliable places to check morning and evening. With a single party on 920 acres, deer are not pressured by other hunters on the property.

Reservation fees are due at the time of booking and are non-refundable. 50% of the outdoorsman fee will process 2 weeks after the draw results in this state are posted, or immediately upon booking if the reservation is made after draw results post. All OTC hunts will also process 50% of the outdoorsman fee at the time of booking. The remaining 50% will process 1 month prior to the hunt.

For big game adventures, cancellations made prior to placing a deposit will be handled immediately with no penalty. If a cancellation is requested after a deposit has been placed, Infinite Outdoors will make every effort to reschedule the hunt for a different season or a future year. Refunds are not guaranteed once a deposit has been placed.

If there is a lapse in availability, please do not be discouraged to reach out to IO. All calendars are set and managed by landowners, and unavailability is set by them. However, IO is willing to reach out on your behalf, to check on available dates. Other reasons for unavailable dates include biologist recommended hunter/harvest quotas that landowners implement, as well as state season dates not being released.

You are not legally allowed to access the property, for any adventure, prior to your selected access day. If you try to access the property at all before your selected date(s), without prior approval from IO, you will be subject to trespassing and punishments therein

This hunt is for mule deer bucks scoring 161" or greater and whitetail bucks scoring 141" or greater.

5-Day Hunt. By booking the first day of your hunt, you are automatically booked for the following 4 days as well.

Unit: West River Deer Unit 64A (Ziebach County). License: Type 01, one Any Deer. Current allocation: 250 resident and 20 nonresident licenses ($45 resident, $375 nonresident).

Draw odds: In the 2025 draw, 314 residents listed Unit 64A Any Deer as their first choice for 250 licenses, and 67 nonresidents applied first choice for 20 licenses. That works out to enough licenses for roughly 4 of every 5 resident first-choice applicants and about 1 of every 3 nonresident first-choice applicants. Preference points improve your odds.

Hunter success: Hunters holding a Unit 64A Any Deer license had a 65% success rate in 2025, well above the 49% average across all West River units, and the reported buck harvest was split evenly between whitetails and mule deer (source: SD GFP 2025 West River Firearm Deer Harvest Report).

How to get a license: Unit 64A licenses are awarded through the SD GFP combined deer draw. Any licenses left after the draws are sold first come, first served until the season closes. You must hold a valid Unit 64A license to book this hunt. gfp.sd.gov.

This hunt is available during the South Dakota West River rifle deer season in November. Season dates are set each year by SD Game, Fish and Parks.
Check current season dates and regulations at gfp.sd.gov before your hunt.

After your hunt, you will be sent an automated Harvest Report. To assist Infinite Outdoors in maintaining the quality of properties, and to continue to put conservation at the forefront, we require that the harvest report be completely filled out and returned. Failure to fill out the harvest report within 2 weeks of the hunt taking place will result in a $25 fine. If you are unsuccessful in filling your tag, Infinite Outdoors still needs to have that information provided to them. This is how we make changes to future years' harvest quotas and continue to be the most well managed access and conservation platform in the country.