LAST EDITED ON Jul-01-13 AT 12:38PM (MST)[p]+1. The unit is fun and has good deer, but not as great as people make it out to be, I had the tag a couple years back. The mountain is awesome one of my favorite places to go explore. The deer will tend to be on the bottom 1/2. I have spent days on top with no real luck. They tend to bed in the trees a little way up and feed out in the night. When I hunted it, I spent 2 weekends in the archery season with a bow. Passed on a good 160ish buck hoping for bigger. I spent 6 days during the rifle season looking as well. I hunted hard and covered a lot of the unit. I wound up with a 150 4x4. I know of one buck that year taken in the upper 170s. I have a good friend who hunts it every other year between him or his wife. Best they have gotten was a 150s buck.
The archery hunting was a blast. The south side of the mountain typically has fewer people. Deer will be found all over the unit and do not over look the sand dunes and sage flats. On the west side of the unit is a big sandy mountain called bear mountain I believe. It is hard to access due to the sand, but I found it to be the only place I could escape other hunters.
Also last year it was on fire. I am not sure how it has changed things, but the elk really moved out. The east end of teh unit got burnt pretty hard. It might be years for good regrowth.