Willie has been making dreams come true for hunters from around the world for 24 years as a full-time guide in South Dakota and Alaska. He is a professional. If you would like to see yourself in the pic with any of these gorgeous trophies, contact him now.
Willie is known as one of the best prairie dog hunting guides in North America.
E-mail, text or call him at 605-228-8162 today to book a prairie dog hunt.
South Dakota Hunting Guide and Outfitter including:
Prairie Dog Hunting
Buffalo (Bison) Hunting
Deer Hunting
Antelope Hunting
Predator Hunting
South Dakota American bison, whitetail and mule deer, and antelope hunting are just some of Jim River Guide Service's services. We also offer predator/coyote hunting and we’re the premier prairie dog hunting destination in the world. The archery hunts we conduct for fair-chase whitetail and mule deer sell out every year and are fantastic and have extraordinary success.
*I do ALL of my own guiding
*I provide ALL of the names of hunters from the previous season
*call them and ask the tough questions
You will enjoy our headquarters! The facility features 6 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms and 2 kitchens, for over 5,100 square feet to accommodate our hunters and ourselves much better. We offer first rate accommodations. We still focus on small groups that want excellent personal service.
Jim River Guide Service operates on over 200,000 acres of private ground in five distinct areas of South Dakota. I have an extensive network of family and land owners who are interested in your success and satisfaction on your hunt. Text or phone me at: 605-228-8162.
Jim River Guide Service provides you with an excellent hunting experience. Housing, excellent vehicles and equipment, and first class meals featuring wild game from South Dakota, buffalo, excellent home raised beef, and pork with all the extras are provided with unmatched hospitality. The guide will give you 100% all of the time, good weather and bad. My taxidermist and butcher handle hundreds of animals for me and my clients. They are fantastic. If they weren’t, I’d be using somebody else. No need to worry about my service providers, you can use them with confidence.
Archery deer season runs from late September through late December. Early hunting is excellent, however, late season hunting can occasionally be even better due to the grain harvesting that generally starts in mid-October and can run well into November. Prairie dog shooting takes place from April through October. You can easily add a bison hunt for meat animals to prairie dog hunts during the spring and summer months to take back a huge supply of excellent, high quality healthy meat. The best time for buffalo hunting is December and January. I can call predators all year long. We'll do our best to accommodate you when your calendar allows you to hunt.
When booking a hunt, it is best to use the same rule of thumb as when you buy a scope. Buy the best you can afford. The sweetness of low price is short lived but the bitterness of dealing with a poor hunting guide lasts a lifetime.
I personally guide all of my clients. Before you book a hunt with me, I give you the opportunity to talk to EVERY client that I guided the previous season by supplying you with the names and phone numbers of ALL my clients from the previous hunting season. Call them and ask them hard questions. By listening to their answers, you will see the clear value my business has over my competition. Because I provide the names of ALL my clients, you know YOUR NAME will be going on the list next season so you should have comfort in knowing I have a vested interest in your success. As the owner of the business, you should also know that I have a greater interest in your success than if I was simply putting you out with a hired hand like the other outfitters do. In a perfect world, everybody would care about the business as much as the owner. But we don't live in a perfect world.
There is a demographic that only wants to be guided by the owner of the business because they know what valuable dynamics that brings to their hunt/experience. Because I do all of my own guiding, the hunting is EXCELLENT. Because I do ALL of my own guiding, my time gets spoken for rather quickly. I treat everybody the same. I treat everybody the same when you are booking the hunts ... the first person that puts money across my desk gets the dates. That gives everybody the same chance to hunt with me. When you book a hunt with me, my goal is to get you to come back on another hunt. The best way for me to get you to come back on a second hunt is to show you a great time on your first hunt.
You have likely read articles I’ve penned about hunting Alaska and South Dakota in your favorite national hunting magazines. The articles are chocked full of great pics of guys like you hunting with me along with tips for hunting and selecting guides to take you on your next big adventure. You can also enjoy my radio show on local radio stations. If your favorite radio station does not carry it, ask them to and send them my contact information.
It is sometimes hard to get a hunter to book a hunt with me the first time. However, it is a slam dunk to get them to book a second, third and fourth hunt with me after I have guided them once. I make my living on repeat business. If you have concerns about how to go about choosing a great outfitter, you should find comfort that I do ALL of my own guiding and everyone's name goes on my client lists that I send out to prospective clients. There is a lot of risk in putting the names of all of my customers on a list as a way of demonstrating how good of an operation I am running. I risk other outfitters trying to poach my clients and I risk a client not saying great things about me. If I owned a run-of-the-mill operation, that would be a concern. I do not own a run-of-the-mill operation, I own an OUTSTANDING operation. I have a lot of confidence in my operation and you won't be disappointed that you spent money with me.
You need to know what questions to ask the outfitter that you might trust to take you hunting. You will find out nothing about an outfitter by simply asking fluff questions about Price, Success Rate and Trophy Quality except what his price is. You have to ask the right questions if you want to know if you are dealing with a poor outfitter, a good outfitter, or a great outfitter. Bad outfitters are the cheapest because they have to be. They count on new business every year because repeat customers are a rarity in their books.
When you book a hunt with me, do so knowing that I have your best interest in mind before, during and after the hunt. I am proud of that. Trust that you will get a great outdoor experience when you go hunting with me.
Along with guiding hunts in South Dakota, I run a major arm of my business in Alaska. I personally guide hunting trips in Alaska for grizzly/brown bear, moose, black bear, wolf, and wolverine. If you intend to hunt Alaska in the future, it makes sense to book this hunt with me to start a working relationship so you can minimize the risk when hiring your Alaska brown bear guide or unguided moose hunting outfitter. Click on the banner below to learn more about the hunts. I have had many clients start their relationship with me by hunting for one species in one state and then finding themselves booking hunts with me year after year in the other state. Return clients are very important to me.
Master Guide and your host, Willie
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E-mail, call or text us at 605-228-8162 today!
A 50% non-refundable deposit will reserve your hunt.
Contact me to enjoy the premier prairie dog and buffalo hunting in the world. Archery mule deer, whitetail and antelope hunts are also fantastic.
I’m a people person, call me old school if you want. I enjoy people and like to hear their story. I communicate well by text, email or voice to voice on the phone. I and everybody you will run into when hunting with my outfit speak clearly and loud enough that you can hear and understand us easily. We all understand the value of excellent communication.
I’m in the business of making dreams come true. Give me a call or text at 605-228-8162. You can also e-mail us with any questions. I will personally speak to you. I put my money where my mouth is. Be sure to ask for a list of ALL my clients from last year. Don’t settle for just a “reference” list when you research an outfit. I’ll get my complete customer list to you quickly along with the details of the specific hunt you’re interested in. Be ready to commit to an incredible outdoor experience.
Jim River Guide Service
Willie Dvorak, Owner and Master Guide
432 Railway Avenue
Mellette, SD 57461
Text or phone: 605-228-8162
Prairie dog hunting in the James River Valley and Ft. Pierre area of South Dakota.
Bison hunting in the James River Valley and Ft. Pierre area of South Dakota.
Whitetail deer hunting in the James River Valley and Ft. Pierre area of South Dakota.
Testimonials and references for Jim River Guide Service.
Antelope hunting in the James River Valley and Ft. Pierre area of South Dakota.
Predator hunting including coyote, fox, and raccoon in the James River Valley and Ft. Pierre area of South Dakota.
Pricing for the various hunts offered by Jim River Guide Service.
Contact us today to book a South Dakota hunting trip, ask a question, or request our client list.
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