I had a pretty disappointing big game draw season from January through May. I applied for plenty of tags with reasonable odds, but just didn't turn much up. By the time June rolled around, I had one tag with a two-day season in December, as well as a difficult second choice archery deer tag in my home state of Utah.
In a last-ditch effort to draw a tag and start my season a little earlier, I applied for an archery pronghorn tag in the Nevada second draw.
I applied for the Utah antlerless drawing just ahead of the June 19 deadline. One of my applications was for a doe pronghorn tag with an opening date of August 1st. I figured I had about a 50% shot at drawing it at my point level.
On June 20th, I received an email telling me that I'd drawn my first choice pronghorn tag in the Nevada second draw - in a better unit than I ever expected I'd draw.![Oops! :oops: :oops:](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
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At that point, it was too late to modify my Utah application. All I could do was wait. On July 3rd, I received an email telling me that I'd drawn my Utah doe pronghorn tag as well. Just like that, I had two pronghorn tags that open August 1st and close by the 21st.
Sure is fun when it's finally your turn to have a little luck. I'm especially pleased to be able to start my hunting season so early. I just hope it's not too much to do in too little time.
Here we go...
In a last-ditch effort to draw a tag and start my season a little earlier, I applied for an archery pronghorn tag in the Nevada second draw.
I applied for the Utah antlerless drawing just ahead of the June 19 deadline. One of my applications was for a doe pronghorn tag with an opening date of August 1st. I figured I had about a 50% shot at drawing it at my point level.
On June 20th, I received an email telling me that I'd drawn my first choice pronghorn tag in the Nevada second draw - in a better unit than I ever expected I'd draw.
![1721709727053.png 1721709727053.png](https://www.hunttalk.com/data/attachments/303/303797-b9a5cb747ba9d4df6ee0c8c4a8003a9b.jpg)
At that point, it was too late to modify my Utah application. All I could do was wait. On July 3rd, I received an email telling me that I'd drawn my Utah doe pronghorn tag as well. Just like that, I had two pronghorn tags that open August 1st and close by the 21st.
Sure is fun when it's finally your turn to have a little luck. I'm especially pleased to be able to start my hunting season so early. I just hope it's not too much to do in too little time.
Here we go...