However, after I showed her some photos of the higher elevation mountains I had found on Google she immediately agreed. I suspect she figured we would be hiking and glassing sage brush, not atypical of the arid Nevada landscape.
When I initially floated the idea to my wife about heading to Nevada on a backpack/scouting trip she was a bit reluctant.
I spoke to a number of folks about their experiences in the unit and came away with a solid plan to explore and scout the area. I really can’t say enough about the caliber of folks at Epic Outdoors and the members that are willing to talk about a hunting unit. I had a two pronged approach to my scouting goals: 1) talk to as many folks as possible from the Epic Outdoors members list and get as much intel on the unit as possible 2) convince my wife to drive 700 miles over July 4th weekend to go backpacking and scouting. I believe scouting is integral part of hunting, something that can literally mean the difference between success and failure. Over several weeks, as I reviewed the maps of the unit, it became clear that this place is really remote and big country. It became obvious almost immediately to me that in order to do this hunt right, I was going to need to backpack into a wilderness area.
Hunting an area out of state you have never laid eyes on can be daunting but I really love the entire process. BLM, National Forest and wilderness areas. Checking my email on May 24th I expected to see the usual “unsuccessful” notices, but instead was surprised to see those beautiful words in green – NR Elk Antlered Result: Successful Somehow, some way, I finally drew a Nevada bull elk tag! Scouting I wasn’t expecting much from the Nevada draw, but the beauty of their bonus point system is that everybody has a chance to draw a tag. Come May, I was down on my luck having not drawn any tags, even one I thought was a sure thing. Those of us that play the points game likely have the same excitement and anticipation each year as the draw results come out.
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