Nevada Deer · Unit 042 Neill

Nevada Unit 042 covers 806,940 acres and lies 32 miles north of Lovelock and 42 miles south-west of Winnemucca. 59% of it is public land, mostly BLM (56%) and Bureau of Reclamation (2%). In 2025, 37 people hunted mule deer here and took 16, a 43% success rate (sum of published hunt rows). Its most applied-for hunt, 1332-041.042-1005, put up 1 nonresident tag in the 2025 draw for 29 first-choice applicants.

NR Tags, 2025
5

4 licenses

Applicants
49

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
43%

2025, all licenses

Public Land
59%

56% BLM

Size
1,261 mi²

806,940 acres

Lovelock Winnemucca Empire 042
43%hunter success 2025 · 37 hunters, 16 deer

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.

Every License in Unit 042

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
1332-041.042-1005 Standard <1% (small sample) —
1342-041.042-0810 Standard 1% (small sample) —
1372-041.042-0910 Standard <1% (small sample) —
NRG-041.042-1005 Guided <1% (small sample) —

First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2025 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file. Not in the table, with no 2025 result: 1107-041.042-0810, 1331-041.042-1005, 1341-041.042-0810, 1371-041.042-0910.

Draw results: NDOW 2025 Mule Deer Antlered ALW Bonus Point and…; NDOW 2025 Mule Deer Antlered Archery Bonus Point…; NDOW 2025 Mule Deer Antlered Muzzleloader Bonus… and 1 more, retrieved Aug 31, 2026.

If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): Standard $408 ($168 to apply) · Guided $468 ($168 to apply). Deadlines: Mar 9, 2027 (expected) for Guided · May 13, 2027 (expected) for the main draw. Full fee breakdown.

Harvest

Year Hunters Deer Success
2025 (summed) 37 16 43%
2024 (summed) 26 13 50%
2023 (summed) 36 15 42%
2022 (summed) 45 16 36%
2021 (summed) 57 10 18%

What Nevada Department of Wildlife publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. Nevada Department of Wildlife publishes no whole-unit line for 2025; a year's total is the sum of published hunt rows, added only where the lines do not overlap. Nevada Department of Wildlife reports this unit inside the group 041, 042, so the figures cover the whole group, not Unit 042 alone. Source: NDOW 2025 Mule Deer Harvest by Unit Group; NDOW 2024 Mule Deer Harvest by Unit Group; NDOW 2023 Mule Deer Harvest by Unit Group.

The Ground

BLM 454,283 ac 56%
Private 334,077 ac 41%
Bureau of Reclamation 18,634 ac 2%

Source: US Bureau of Land Management, Nevada State Office 2026 BLM Surface Management Agency.

▸ Sources 13
  1. NDOW 2025 Mule Deer Antlered ALW Bonus Point and… draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  2. NDOW 2025 Mule Deer Antlered Archery Bonus Point… draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  3. NDOW 2025 Mule Deer Antlered Muzzleloader Bonus… draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  4. NDOW 2025 Mule Deer NonResident Guided Antlered… draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  5. Nevada Legislative Counsel Bureau 2026 Administrative Code Chapter 502 fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  6. Nevada Legislative Counsel Bureau 2026 Revised Statutes Chapter 502 fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  7. NDOW 2025 Mule Deer Harvest by Unit Group harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  8. NDOW 2024 Mule Deer Harvest by Unit Group harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  9. NDOW 2023 Mule Deer Harvest by Unit Group harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  10. NDOW 2022 Mule Deer Harvest by Unit Group harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  11. NDOW 2021 Mule Deer Harvest by Unit Group harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  12. NDOW 2026 Game Management Units boundary, area description, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  13. US Bureau of Land Management, Nevada State Office 2026 BLM Surface Management Agency land ownership, retrieved Sep 1, 2026

About These Numbers

Odds are from the 2025 draw, the latest on file, computed from Nevada Department of Wildlife's published results. They are what happened in that draw, not a forecast. Under five tags a percentage carries a *, because one applicant either way swings it. A dash means the agency did not publish the number, and a date marked expected is last cycle's schedule rolled forward. How we compute these.

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