![]() ![]() Sunday evening, we reluctantly made the decision to return to Carson City to, hopefully, wait for the weather to change, before our season comes to a close on Nov. The weather was very hot and bone dry and in addition to not seeing any deer, we saw very few other hunters or signs of their travels on the various dirt roads. 7, and as we found out over the next couple of days, they were absolutely correct.įor our abbreviated trip, we hunted (unsuccessfully) on Saturday morning, scouted new hunting areas on Saturday afternoon, hunted (unsuccessfully) those new areas on Sunday morning and then scouted other new areas on Sunday afternoon. Those other hunters had told us that there were not that many deer in that portion of Area No. We strongly suspected that the lack of deer was probably due to the unusually hot and dry weather, plus the sharp decline in overall deer populations in Area No. We only saw two does and very little deer sign. On the opening morning, we hunted where Dennis had recommended we try. 6 hunters (a Californian) returned late Saturday evening with a trophy buck that had a 31-inch spread and a green Boone and Crockett score of 192 points. There were scouting reports of lots of deer, with lots of nice bucks, in the high mountains of that area. We returned in the late afternoon and spend several enjoyable hours catching and releasing lots of Perch at the north end of the reservoir.Īt the bar, restaurant and motel that evening, we discovered that everyone else would be hunting in Area No. That country is bone dry and the dirt roads were very dusty. Then, we headed into the backcountry to check out the area where they wanted us to hunt the next morning. We arrived safe and sound in the early afternoon, and after visiting with Dennis and Steve Epling at the Resort, checked into our room and unloaded our gear and clothing. ![]() It was a long, six-hour, 364 mile drive, and the highlight of that trip was stopping to shoot some color video of a spectacular buck Pronghorn Antelope, near North Fork. We loaded our hunting and fishing equipment and clothing into my little pickup and then early last Friday morning departed for the Resort. Our plan was to hunt deer in the mornings and then to fish for Perch at the Reservoir in the afternoons. ![]() Triple Yahoo!Ī comfortable motel room with two beds, TV, VCR, refrigerator with freezer compartment, microwave oven, hot showers, flush toilets, plus a restaurant with a complete menu, a well-stocked bar with never-ending supplies of Manhattans and gasoline pumps, plus being told where the deer are located. In addition, Dennis told us not to worry about scouting that particular area, prior to our hunt, as the folks at the resort would be able to tell us where to go to hunt. ![]() We did not have to camp in a cold tent in the middle of nowhere! Double Yahoo! Yahoo!Ī quick telephone call to longtime friend, Dennis Dunn, the owner of the Resort and we were all set to stay at the resort during a deer hunt in that portion of Area No. 7 also includes the country east of the Wildhorse Resort at Wildhorse Reservoir. We dug out the NDOW Nevada Hunt Unit Reference Map to see if there was another location where we could hunt, and saw that Area No. However, after drawing those-hard-to-get tags, one of the landowners in that area informed us that there were very few deer due to the severe devastation caused by the huge range fires of the last several years. We had originally planned to hunt north of Wells. 225 (The Mountain City Highway) on the west, the Idaho stateline on the north (South of the Gold Creek Road), the Utah stateline on the east and I-80 on the south. That huge area is encompassed by Nevada S.R. 7, and not the archery tags that we had mistakenly requested. When notification arrived in the mail of the results of the drawings, there was a big sigh of relief. 7 and applicants for archery tags for Area No. So, we were applicants for rifle tags for Area No. We also discovered that once you have successfully entered your information, you can not change or withdraw any of that data. The system accepted that information (valid, but not correct for us) and we were officially entered into the computerized drawing. However, when applying, I was the culprit at the keyboard and mistakenly submitted the code for archery tags for that area. Our second choice was, supposedly, for rifle tags for Area No. The first choice was for rifle tags in Area No. Jim and I had made two choices for deer tags. For you see, when applying on the Internet, the Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) system will not accept your application if there is any invalid information.īut as we also found out, it will accept information that is valid, but not necessarily correct. ![]()
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