Is road hunting legal in SD? It is easily one of the most scurvy, irresponsible, and dangerous ways to hunt. In Kansas road hunter = POACHER.
By the by, the US is not a democracy, but rather a republic. What's the difference? In a democracy its easier for the majority to tyranize the minority, and this minority of SD ranchers is being tyranized by an envious and greedy majority. I pity the noble SD ranchers that are cursed with a tyranizing majority of East River Bob LaFollette/Sam Gompers communal, antiproperty rights COMMIES.
First, What is meant by king's quarry? Well US common law comes from English common law in which all wild game belonged to the king. Our social contract framers rebuked so many of the king's laws, but hadn't the foresight to consider what they'd have thought preposterous - private property owners being forced to sustain wildlife for the common good with no compensation. So, now we have most of the wildlife sustenance being afforded by a small overtaxed minority. Just because there isn't a special bill of rights provision prohibiting such a taking doesn't mean its constitutional. But it is because the majority says it is.
So Colorado has a system that rewards landowners for sustaining the state's wildlife. They attach about $100 fee to hunting liscenses that goes to landowners where game is hunted. Your tag has a ticket that can be redeemed from the state for this money - where you tag out gets the ticket.
Kansas has transferrable tags, and the income generated has helped sustain some good familys. The fear that all the free loading hhunters will be displaced is nonsense. Sure the out of state hunters pay alot of money. Local hunters can always hunt cleanup which really requires great hunting skill. The spike bucks, close basket rack, and other freaks need culled and provide free local hunting for skilled sportsmen. The good old days of freeloading hunting went out with low taxes.
All this talk about fee hunting really begs the issue. The SD lockout is simply all that honest noble people have to protect property rights. I am an objective onlooker, and I admire the commitment to freedom.