Nevada Deer — Unit 182

Salisbury

Nevada Unit 182 covers 680,507 acres and lies 35 miles south-east of Lovelock and 55 miles east of Fernley. 97% of it is public land, mostly BLM (78%) and military (15%). In 2025, 267 people hunted mule deer here and took 124 — 46% of them killed something. The 2025 draw put up 9 nonresident tags here for 104 first-choice applicants.

Nonresident tags (2025):23 Applicants:134 Hunter success (2025):46% Public land:97% Size:680,507 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every deer license type on offer in Unit 182, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

4 licenses on offer · 23 tags · 134 applicants in the 2025 draw

Chances are from the 2025 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.

Simple view Odds at every point level
  • 1332-181.182.183.184-1005 Mule deer antlered | NR | Any Legal Weapon | 181 - 184 9 tags · 104 applicants · Standard
    <1% Point builder 2% as 2nd choice
  • 1342-181.182.183.184-0810 Mule deer antlered | NR | Archery | 181 - 184 7 tags · 5 applicants · Standard
    3% Point builder 15% as 2nd choice
  • 1372-181.182.183.184-1110 Mule deer antlered | NR | Muzzleloader | 181 - 184 1 tags · 22 applicants · Standard
    <1% Point builder 1% as 2nd choice
  • NRG-181.182.183.184-1005 Restricted nonresident guided antlered mule deer | NR guided | Any Legal Weapon | 181 - 184 6 tags · 3 applicants · Guided
    2% Undersubscribed 7% as 2nd choice
What these columns mean
Your odds
the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2025 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year.
The badge
plain language for that number. Likely draw 75% or better · Real chance 40%+ · Long shot 15%+ · Point builder below that, so you are applying mainly to bank a point · Undersubscribed means fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
As 2nd choice
Nevada lets you name more than one hunt on the application. Miss on your first choice and you go into the pot for whatever tags are left, alongside everyone else's second choices. Points never help a lower choice, so this number is the same whatever you have banked — it is usually worth naming a hunt that goes undersubscribed.
Points needed
the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2025 draw, and how that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold.
Tags / applicants
tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them. Under five tags we print counts instead of a percentage, because one applicant either way swings it.
4 hunts not offered in 2025 are hidden — show discontinued hunts.

What it costs to apply (2026 nonresident fees)

License Up front Gone if you miss If you draw
Standard license $168 $168 $408
Guided license $168 $168 $468

Application deadlines: Mar 9, 2027 (expected) for Guided · May 13, 2027 (expected) for the main draw. Full fee breakdown.

Other licenses valid in Unit 182

Not in the table above because they had no result in the 2025 draw.

The country

Lovelock Fallon Yerington Winnemucca Ely
Unit 182 within Nevada
015 021 022 041 042 043 044 045 141 143 151 152 153 154 155 156 161 171 172 173 181 183 184 192 194 195 196 203 205 291 Lovelock Fallon Yerington Sparks Carson City
Unit 182 and its neighbours
Zoomable USGS topo, aerial imagery and shaded relief, with the neighboring areas drawn on.

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

Who owns the ground

  • BLM 531,275 ac · 78%
  • Department of Defense 99,225 ac · 15%
  • Private 23,236 ac · 3%
  • Bureau of Reclamation 14,269 ac · 2%
  • National Wildlife Refuge 12,531 ac · 2%
  • Tribal 8 ac · 0%

Source: BLM Nevada Surface Management Agency

How the hunting has gone

What Nevada Department of Wildlife publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Nevada Department of Wildlife publishes these per hunt rather than per unit; the rows below add its own figures together, since a hunter holds one tag for the species in a season. Nevada Department of Wildlife reports this unit inside the group 181-184, so the figures below cover the whole group, not Unit 182 alone.

Season Hunters Harvest Success
2025 267 124 46%
2024 221 95 43%
2023 195 70 36%
2022 278 113 41%
2021 255 95 37%

Boundary: NDOW Game Management Units

Harvest: 2025 Mule Deer Harvest by Unit Group

Harvest: 2024 Mule Deer Harvest by Unit Group

Harvest: 2023 Mule Deer Harvest by Unit Group

How we compute draw odds · All Nevada deer hunts