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[Spome]

Hunted this zone in late 80's and early 90's.

Winter of 92 seemed to devastate the deer numbers in the area.
Went back into the area in 2000 and 2005 hiking the Black rock wilderness. saw a few deer and a decent buck or two. By comparison was disappointed. Haven't hunted it since 92.
Great experiences then and know the area well.
Anyone out there have any updates on this herd and its potentials for 180 bucks??

 

[fullcurl74]

Still some deer, but few and far between. Mostly horses, antelope, horses, CA bighorns, and more horses.

 

[Brandon82]

I go deep into 034 every year for a big chukar hunt we do. And for the last 3 years I have not seen a single mature buck. We hunt the south eastern part of the unit and have always gotten alot of birds, and see alot of sheep.. but no deer. I had an antelope tag for 034, 032, 035 this year and put on the miles on the north end of 034 where it meets 032 and back up toward the Lahontan Cutthroat Trout area, there are a lot of antelope and very few deer. i was highly disappointed, obviously that isnt to say they arent in there but they are not where I am.

 

[Jazz]

Definitely way down. I did lots of research this past few years as I wanted to hunted in 32,33 or 34. I ended up in Unit 6 and most outfitters will tell you the same thing.

Jazz

 

[Spome]

Thanks for the input. Kinda what I feared about a once great area.

 

[Pucci]

Had a non resident tag in 2000. Saw quite a few deer but nothing big at all. All 4 of us tagged out. Lots and lots of chuckars and horses. Camped near the windmill SE of Soldier meadows. Lots of lopes also.

 

[nvbucks]

We had two resident tags in this unit in 1997 and had a fantastic hunt. There were deer everywhere and we would see between 15-25 bucks a day. I passed on a couple I probably shouldn't have but ended up taking a pretty nice typical on the last day that grossed 178 and netted 173. We drew 034 again and had the exact opposite experience. Very few bucks and nothing over 170. Have spent some time chukar hunting up there over the past few seasons and just don't see the number of deer and size of bucks that this unit was producing 10 years ago. Very disappointing because there is some really gorgeous deer country in there. Just not seeing anything that would cause me to put it down as one of my choices.