Unit 078, 105 - 107, 121 (Steptoe Valley, Spruce Mountain and the Pequop Mountains)

Steptoe Valley between the Cherry Creek Range and US 93

NDOW calls Steptoe Valley a stronghold for antelope in this unit group. The animals use much of the available ground between the Cherry Creek Range and US 93, which makes that stretch the first place to glass.

Guzzlers in southern Units 105 and 106

Several big game water developments are scattered through the group, and the sheet's specific advice is to focus on the guzzlers in the southern parts of Units 105 and 106. This is a very water-limited unit group for the most part, and the biologist tells hunters to search for antelope around water.

Pronghorn aren't confined to the valley floors here. NDOW finds them in most valleys across the group and even up into the higher country of Spruce Mountain, the South Pequop Mountains and the Cherry Creek Range. Telegraph Peak and Goshute Peak are among the other named summits inside the line.

Away from cattle and horses

The sheet adds one detail that narrows the search. Antelope tend to avoid heavy concentrations of livestock and feral horses, so look for water that doesn't carry much competition from either. That's where NDOW expects the animals to be.

The ground NDOW draws for this tag

A pronghorn tag for this group is good in units 078, 105, 106, 107 and 121, about 3,930 square miles measured on NDOW's own boundary, in Elko County and White Pine County. The named ranges inside the line are Little White Horse Hills, Goshute Mountains, Currie Hills, Ferber Hills, Kinsley Mountains and Boone Spring Hills. The highest named points are Spruce Mountain (10,247 ft), Telegraph Hill (10,142 ft) and Telegraph Peak (9,908 ft), and the lowest named ground sits near 4,696 feet. We don't print a land-status split for Nevada groups, because the figures we held didn't come from BLM's surface-management data; check BLM's current map for private parcels before you cross a fence or a cattle guard. GNIS names 188 springs inside it, Choke Cherry Spring, Currie Gardens, Flat Canyon Spring and Gooseberry Spring among them.

Three highways into the group

NDOW lists three main ways in: US 93, the Great Basin Highway; US 93 Alternate, between Lages Junction and West Wendover; and US 50 out of Ely. From those, county and BLM roads such as CR 19, CR 21 and BLM 1087 spread through the group. Public access is good across much of it.

Private land and mines off I-80

The exceptions are Units 078 and 107 along Interstate 80, where private land and mining activity limit access. Check land status there before you plan a stalk.

Glass with the sun at your back

The biologist's tactical advice is short. Glass in the early and late hours of the day, and keep the sun behind you. In a dry group where pronghorn steer clear of heavy livestock and horse use, a slow look over the quieter water sources in that low light is the approach the sheet lays out.

Wells, West Wendover and Ely have groceries, fuel, motels and campgrounds. If you'd rather not base your hunt out of one of those towns, plan on dispersed camping on public land.

The 2025 season in NDOW's own numbers

NDOW's 2025 Big Game Hunt Data is the hunter survey behind these figures: who drew, who went, who filled a tag. Success there is NDOW's own figure, successful hunters over hunters afield.

• Horns longer than ears, any legal weapon, Aug 22 - Sep 07: 30 resident and 3 nonresident tags. 32 hunters went afield and 28 filled their tag (88%). Hunters reported 3.1 days afield on average. 33% of the resident bucks had horns of 15 inches or longer.
• Horns longer than ears, archery, Aug 01 - Aug 21: 5 resident and 1 nonresident tags. 5 hunters went afield and 4 filled their tag (80%). Hunters reported 4.8 days afield on average. 33% of the resident bucks had horns of 15 inches or longer.
• Horns longer than ears, muzzleloader, Sep 25 - Oct 04: 2 resident and 1 nonresident tags. 3 hunters went afield and 3 filled their tag (100%). Hunters reported 1.0 days afield on average. 50% of the resident bucks had horns of 15 inches or longer.

Roads in and the nearest towns

The longest named roads through the group are US 93, I 80;US 93 ALT, CR 19 and BLM 1087. Our road inventory counts roughly 121 miles of pavement, 173 of gravel and 426 of high-clearance or four-wheel-drive track. The nearest towns are Wells (9 mi), West Wendover (25 mi) and Wendover (26 mi), measured from the centre of the closest unit in the group.