How soon is too soon?

[cprice0910]

I drew an area 7 late rifle mule deer tag this year in NV. This will actually be my first late tag I’ve ever had. All of my other deer tags have been the normal rifle tags here in NV and all down south, areas 22,23, and 24. My question is how soon is too soon to start my hard actual scouting and finding that “target” buck? I’ve been planning on hunting around the southern edge of the Jarbidge wilderness. But if the bucks that are there now are generally gone by the late hunt I don’t want to put all my eggs in one basket for around there.

 

[Blake C]

I've noticed they change areas around the time they get hard horned

 

[RockAndSage]

You're going to need to be a bit more specific for area 7 - some of the herds in the region are migratory, some are not. If it's a non-migratory herd, I'd have been scouting last month already.

 

[cprice0910]

You're going to need to be a bit more specific for area 7 - some of the herds in the region are migratory, some are not. If it's a non-migratory herd, I'd have been scouting last month already.

The tag is 071-079,091. The part of 7 that’s I’ve already started scouting was 073, but I imagine coming out the jarbidge they would be a migratory herd