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Looking at hunting elk with this outfit, i have the the points, and has any had any experience with them. Thankyou.
 
I hunted Elk with them last year. Awesome experience and would do it again in a heart beat. Thomas is a great guy and the whole experience was just as advertised, which is nice when your looking at potential OIL tag.
Feel free to PM me if you have any specific questions.
 
brdhuntr said:
Looking at hunting elk with this outfit, i have the the points, and has any had any experience with them. Thankyou.
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If you're a NR you don't have the points! There are a lot of us NRs with 20+ points. I'm at 23 for elk myself and there's a lot of us out there. If you're a resident with 20+ points you're odds a pretty good to draw a great bull tag in NV. At 25 pts the archery draw odds are probably over 90% for you to draw as a resident.
 
oilcan said:
I hunted Elk with them last year. Awesome experience and would do it again in a heart beat. Thomas is a great guy and the whole experience was just as advertised, which is nice when your looking at potential OIL tag.
Feel free to PM me if you have any specific questions.
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Oilcan, how many points did you have. Thank you.
 
Ditto BigPig here. I had a 2021 Rocky Mtn BH tag in 114. We hunted our asses off at 11000 feet plus. His sub guides were amazing as well. I was not successful, but it was no fault of timberline, there simply weren't any shootable rams. Thomas Brunson is a class act and the best in the business if you ask me. I can't see you going wrong by employing this guy. Good luck with your draw.
 
Some people really have no clue as to how different state's point systems work. I have 22 elk and 21 antelope points in NV as a nonresident. Every year I'm hopeful but definitely not surprised when I don't draw.
 
PCPython said:
Some people really have no clue as to how different state's point systems work. I have 22 elk and 21 antelope points in NV as a nonresident. Every year I'm hopeful but definitely not surprised when I don't draw.
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I've got 9 points for Bull as a resident. Hell, I have 7 cow points....... And I dont put in for the "sought after" areas only.
 
This is the difference between "bonus points" and "preference points". In Nevada, your points are squared. So, you have more chances in the draw but it is still random. I have 21 and still can't seem to draw.
 
JUST FOR THE SAKE OF GOOD CONVERSATION, I HAVE BEEN ASKED IF THERE IS A NOTIBLE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TIMBERLINE GUIDE SERVICE & BULL RIDGE GUIDE SERVICE ???? THEY ELK & DEER HUNT ALOT OF THE SAME UNITS, AND BOTH DO REALLY WELL WITH CLIENTS. I HAVE FRIENDS WITH 22 PLUS POINTS THAT INQUIRE FROM TIME TO TIME. ANY POINTS OF INTEREST WOULD BE INTERESTING TO HEAR. THANKS...............YD.
 
I'd go with Timberline personally for a few reasons. Main one is the fact that they don't have clients stay in hotels. I personally want to be camped in the general area where we'll be hunting and not driving 3 to 4 hours every day driving back and forth from Ely to the hunting locations.
 
EXCESS WINDSHIELD TIME IS A GOOD POINT & ADDED COST OF A HOTEL ROOM/ DRIVING CAN BE A DRAG..........NOT TO MENTION LOSS OF SLEEP..........THANKS..........YD.
 
Some of Timberlines hunts are from motels. Depends on location of the hunt. Obviously these hunts are less than a camp hunt. These guys WILL get you on the best spots
 
Bwht4x4 said:
I'd go with Timberline personally for a few reasons. Main one is the fact that they don't have clients stay in hotels. I personally want to be camped in the general area where we'll be hunting and not driving 3 to 4 hours every day driving back and forth from Ely to the hunting locations.
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My friend hunted with Timberline several years ago and he was directed to stay in a Motel in Ely...The Bristlecone.
 
I talked to them last year and if I remember correctly they said they'd stay out in the field in camps or at their facility 40-50 miles north of Ely.
 
If you put in with an outfitter, how many NR points, in general as a rule, would you need to draw a top 5 unit? Just courious how many years it may save a NR with going with a guide compared to no guide. Just curious.....
 
Wiszard said:
If you put in with an outfitter, how many NR points, in general as a rule, would you need to draw a top 5 unit? Just courious how many years it may save a NR with going with a guide compared to no guide. Just curious.....
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Putting in with an outfitter in the deer guide draw can help in some units. Odds are still tough in the top units. Other species there is no guide draw.
 
Wiszard said:
If you put in with an outfitter, how many NR points, in general as a rule, would you need to draw a top 5 unit? Just courious how many years it may save a NR with going with a guide compared to no guide. Just curious.....
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No guided draw for elk. For deer, right now you’re looking at 30 years to have a decent chance to draw one of the 5 most difficult to draw tags (whether or not those are the 5 best is arguable). If you’re just starting to build points with hopes of getting one of those you better be REALLY lucky, or really young. The way the squared bonus system works, your odds never really get “good”, they just get a tiny bit better every year.
 
yotebuster17 said:
No guided draw for elk. For deer, right now you’re looking at 30 years to have a decent chance to draw one of the 5 most difficult to draw tags (whether or not those are the 5 best is arguable). If you’re just starting to build points with hopes of getting one of those you better be REALLY lucky, or really young. The way the squared bonus system works, your odds never really get “good”, they just get a tiny bit better every year.
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The squared system worked pretty good 20+ years ago. These days there are so many people applying that it's IMO not working as well as before.
 
Bwht4x4 said:
The squared system worked pretty good 20+ years ago. These days there are so many people applying that it's IMO not working as well as before.
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The sad thing is that some of the really hard tags have actually gotten harder to draw as the years go by, even while accumulating points. There’s such a slug of applicants that have 7-15 points that as they square that giant pool of applicants, even with 20-25 your number of names in the hat that goes up each year gets over run by shear volume of applicants in lower point tiers.
 
yotebuster17 said:
The sad thing is that some of the really hard tags have actually gotten harder to draw as the years go by, even while accumulating points. There’s such a slug of applicants that have 7-15 points that as they square that giant pool of applicants, even with 20-25 your number of names in the hat that goes up each year gets over run by shear volume of applicants in lower point tiers.
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Yep, I agree with that. Bull elk tags in NV have draw odds that look like sheep odds. I'm at 22 pts for sheep and elk in NV and I doubt I'll ever draw either of those tags.
 
Bwht4x4 said:
Yep, I agree with that. Bull elk tags in NV have draw odds that look like sheep odds. I'm at 22 pts for sheep and elk in NV and I doubt I'll ever draw either of those tags.
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I’ve drawn two tags in NV and neither were through the normal draw, and both were probably easier to draw then most of the harder to draw tags in the state with no points. I drew a PIW deer tag that was 1:800 chance and an elk dream tag that was 1:3k. I’m pretty sure the regular draw for the units I hunted is harder with less then 10 points then those tags were.
 
yotebuster17 said:
I’ve drawn two tags in NV and neither were through the normal draw, and both were probably easier to draw then most of the harder to draw tags in the state with no points. I drew a PIW deer tag that was 1:800 chance and an elk dream tag that was 1:3k. I’m pretty sure the regular draw for the units I hunted is harder with less then 10 points then those tags were.
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You're pretty lucky drawing those tags! I'm the opposite. I never draw raffle type tags, but I have drawn 3 pronghorn tags, 2 deer tags, and 1 cow elk tag in NV over the years in the regular draw.
 
I hunted with Timberline a few years ago. We stayed in a camp with a small cabin and a few camp trailers. Great experience and hard working guides. Once the first client tagged out they all teamed up to help me find the best bull we could. The two bulls dead in camp went 411 and mine at 382, both archery.
 
marley said:
I hunted with Timberline a few years ago. We stayed in a camp with a small cabin and a few camp trailers. Great experience and hard working guides. Once the first client tagged out they all teamed up to help me find the best bull we could. The two bulls dead in camp went 411 and mine at 382, both archery.
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Good post Marley
I admire your accomplishments.
On a similar note.
Also a few ago I hunted Elk with Bull Ridge outfitters. There was a big Bull we were after they had named LT.
(Lawrence Taylor)
Long story short Timberline outfitters hunter wound up killing LT. He scored in the 390s.
The Bull I ended up killing only scored 381.
They are both great outfits and couldn’t go wrong with either one.
 
buckhorn said:
Good post Marley
I admire your accomplishments.
On a similar note.
Also a few ago I hunted Elk with Bull Ridge outfitters. There was a big Bull we were after they had named LT.
(Lawrence Taylor)
Long story short Timberline outfitters hunter wound up killing LT. He scored in the 390s.
The Bull I ended up killing only scored 381.
They are both great outfits and couldn’t go wrong with either one.
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I saw your bull in the elk forum. Great bull! Those two outfitters don’t like each other much but it’s because they are both great at what they do and they hunt the same areas. One day two of my hunt we spotted a big bull in a great spot for a stalk. We drove up the road a bit and saw a Bull Ridge truck that Thomas recognized so we backed off and watched from a distance to give them their space. They may not like each other but there is still enough mutual respect to back off when the other is working in. I liked that. They didn’t end up killing that bull but it was fun to watch.
 

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