71/711 3rd season

mlycrzy · Jun 19, 2020

My oldest boy drew this tag and we are looking forward to getting out and learning some new country. We mainly hunt Nevada and never hunt much into November unlike this hunt. I’m assuming a lot depends on the weather? Anybody have any recent experience with these units.....not so much places to hunt but overall experience?

Bluehair · Jun 19, 2020

Plenty of country of all types. You should be able to find something that fits your style of hunting. Yes, by November animal habits have changed and weather will probably be moving them around. Whatcha looking for?

mlycrzy · Jun 19, 2020

We mainly like hiking onto high glassing points and spend a lot of time behind the binos. We kicked around the idea of bringing our horses as well. My boy has killed a couple of good bucks but he probably would be happy with a mature 3-4 point buck.

txhunter58 · Jun 20, 2020

The dates are late so move around until you find some does and there should be some bucks thinking about them by then. Even without snow that means the mid to lower country usually. I doubt you would need horses for that country.

timbuck2 · Jun 20, 2020

I had that tag in 2018 with my dad. Overall experience - it was fun country to look at but I was surprised at the lack of deer. I had a unit wide LO tag so I was able to hunt a little chunk of private ground. Only spent a little time on the private. I was new to the unit and passed a 22" 4x4 the first morning on private. I should have shot it. Ended up with an 18" 3x3 meat buck on the last day - also on private. I hunted the unit hard though every day and spent most of the time in 711 on public ground. I spent 1 day in 71 at a place that someone told me about but saw NO deer.
If I were in your shoes, I would take your horses up to Glade Mountain in 711 a couple days before season and glass. There will be some other folks around on horses or walking up trails but I'm sure you'll get away from most folks. It looked like neat country and we saw deer there. I was wishing I had a horse to get away from the road. Many of the other folks will be elk hunting.
The biggest buck I saw (one of the very few) was a 28" 4x4 pushing does early one morning. Before I realized what was happening some does ran in front of the truck and the buck stopped short.... I got a bad picture of the buck, otherwise I'd post it. He was standing in the wrong unit. If only I'd have stopped sooner!! I saw many bucks on private ground, just not a lot on the public. I was shocked because I hiked some really good looking country. I saw 1 hunter packing out a forked horn. I think the deer are there but just didn't work out great for us. Good luck this year.

mlycrzy · Jun 20, 2020

timbuck2 said:
I had that tag in 2018 with my dad. Overall experience - it was fun country to look at but I was surprised at the lack of deer. I had a unit wide LO tag so I was able to hunt a little chunk of private ground. Only spent a little time on the private. I was new to the unit and passed a 22" 4x4 the first morning on private. I should have shot it. Ended up with an 18" 3x3 meat buck on the last day - also on private. I hunted the unit hard though every day and spent most of the time in 711 on public ground. I spent 1 day in 71 at a place that someone told me about but saw NO deer.
If I were in your shoes, I would take your horses up to Glade Mountain in 711 a couple days before season and glass. There will be some other folks around on horses or walking up trails but I'm sure you'll get away from most folks. It looked like neat country and we saw deer there. I was wishing I had a horse to get away from the road. Many of the other folks will be elk hunting.
The biggest buck I saw (one of the very few) was a 28" 4x4 pushing does early one morning. Before I realized what was happening some does ran in front of the truck and the buck stopped short.... I got a bad picture of the buck, otherwise I'd post it. He was standing in the wrong unit. If only I'd have stopped sooner!! I saw many bucks on private ground, just not a lot on the public. I was shocked because I hiked some really good looking country. I saw 1 hunter packing out a forked horn. I think the deer are there but just didn't work out great for us. Good luck this year.

Thanks for sharing your experience. Sounds like a tough hunt but we’re looking to give it hell and maybe turn up a mature buck or two. We’ll make a few trips down before we decide if it’s worth taking the ponies. Thanks again

TravKatQ · Aug 7, 2020

mlycrzy said:
Thanks for sharing your experience. Sounds like a tough hunt but we’re looking to give it hell and maybe turn up a mature buck or two. We’ll make a few trips down before we decide if it’s worth taking the ponies. Thanks again

My family and I have been hunting that unit for quite some time. You need weather to really make the unit. Glade mtn area is a good area to start, it’s fairly thick but good spots to get high and pick apart the oak brush and always see a good buck or 2 in there. My wife killed a great 32” 4x4 in there in 2018 ruttin his guts out. If there’s weather and good snow on the ground disappointment valley is another good place to be as the deer will funnel in the area from the high country and mainly low juniper country makes good glassing when you find high points. It’s definitely not what it used to be but still have a chance of turning up a giant! I’ll be back there this 3rd season as well with a deer tag in my pocket!

mlycrzy · Nov 9, 2020

My boy killed this cool 3rd season buck today. Heading to 71/711 tomorrow in hopes of seeing some rutting bucks And maybe luck into a big buck.

Ranger1 · Nov 9, 2020

Way to go on a cool looking buck!

bonepicker · Nov 9, 2020

Awesome!

timbuck2 · Nov 11, 2020

Sweet buck!! Congrats!

mlycrzy · Nov 12, 2020

My oldest boy ended up killing this 4 point on what turned out to be a tough 3rd season hunt. We had a great time and got to see some cool country. Thanks to those who offered their help/advise.

rmanwill · Nov 12, 2020

Congrats to the youngster.

Founder · Nov 13, 2020

Yep, congrats to the youngster.

coyoteslayer · Nov 13, 2020

4 days of hunting that unit, and I could not turn one up that big for my daughter on public. Seemed like the deer went straight to the fields before the hunt started. We would see maybe 20 does and 1 small buck a day in public. Great country and had a great time with my 13 year old daughter trying to find one.