Outdoors with Don Q: Here's who will be going big game hunting this fall

It’s official: Systems Consultants, the private computer firm in Fallon that conducts the annual computerized drawings for Nevada’s big game hunting tags, has posted the results of the 2014 drawings at its website for the entire world to see.

There were a whole bunch of winners and a heck of a lot more losers in this year’s drawings for tags for Pronghorn Antelope, Black Bear, Mule Deer, Rocky Mt. Elk, California Bighorn Sheep, Desert Bighorn Sheep, Rocky Mt. Bighorn Sheep and Rocky Mt. Goat.

The website can be found here. As I have done for a number of years, I randomly selected the names of some of the lucky folks who are going hunting this year.

So, with that said, let’s have some fun: If your name is listed in this article, it’s the result of my random selection process. And, on the other hand, if your name is not listed, it is also the result of my random selection.
For starters, based on my selections, here’s one lucky 2014 big game hunter for each letter of the alphabet from “A” to “Z” and many of those hunters drew more than one tag!

Successful in the computerized drawings:
Allan, Wesley: Dayton: Resident Antlerless Elk Muzzleloader Hunt 4176 Area 104
Brolsma, Lynn: Carson City: Mule Deer Antlered Hunt 1331 Area 171L
Cavin, Thomas: Carson City: Mule Deer Longbow Antlered Hunt 1341 Area 022 and Resident Antlered Elk Depredation Hunt 4102 Area 144
Dobson, Anthony: Washoe Valley: Antelope Horns Shorter Than Ears Hunt 2181 Area 031 and Junior Hunt 1107 Area 014
Enos, Becky: Gardnerville: Mule Deer Antlered Hunt 1331 Area 035 and Resident Antlerless Elk Hunt 4181 area 114L
Fitz, Robert: Carson City: Mule Deer Antlered Hunt 1331 Area 061E and Antlerless Elk Management Hunt 4481 Area 061
Gamble, David: Gardnerville: Mule Deer Antlered Hunt 1331 Area 101E and Resident Antelope Horns Longer Than Ears Hunt 2151 Area 032 and Resident Antlerless Elk Hunt 4181 Area 076L
Howard, George: Carson City: Mule Deer Longbow Antlered Hunt 1341 Area 071
Inman Jr., Carl: Virginia City: Mule Deer Antlered Muzzleloader Hunt 1371 Area 131
Jackson, Scott: Gardnerville: Resident Antlered Elk Muzzleloader Hunt 4156 Area 111
Keife, Rhonda: Washoe Valley: Resident Antelope Horns Longer Than Ears Hunt 2151 Area 141 and Resident Antlered Elk Depredation Hunt 4102 Area 101E and Resident Antlerless Elk Longbow Hunt 4111 Area 078
Law, Wyatt: Carson City: Resident Junior Hunt 1107 Area 061 and PIW Res Antelope Buck Hunt 2000 Area 999 (Statewide) and Resident Antlerless Elk Longbow Hunt 4111 Area 061
McIntosh, Ryan: Dayton: Mule Deer Antlered Hunt 1331 Area 033E
Nelson, James R: Gardnerville: Mule Deer Longbow Antlered Hunt 1341 Area 033 and Resident Antelope Horns Longer Than Ears Longbow Hunt 2161 Area 015 and Res Nelson Bighorn Sheep Ewe Hunt 3181 Area 212
Osborn, Randy: Washoe Valley: Resident Antelope Horns Shorter Than Ears Hunt 2181 Area 141 and Resident Antlered Elk Hunt 4151 Area 072L and Resident Antlerless Elk Hunt 4181 Area 072L
Pierini, Ronald: Minden: Mule Deer Longbow Antlered Hunt 1341 Area 192L and Resident Antlerless Elk Hunt 4181 Area 111L
Quilici, James: Carson City: Mule Deer Antlered Hunt 1331 Area 19
Radtke, Don: Dayton: Mule Deer Antlered Hunt 1331 Area 061E and Resident Antlerless Elk Hunt 4181 Area 061M
Santiago, Barron: Carson City: Mule Deer Antlered Hunt 1331 Area 101E and Antlerless Elk Management Hunt 4481 Area 101
Thurston, Priscilla: Carson City: Resident Junior Hunt 1107 Area 195
Urso, Thomas: Dayton: Resident Antelope Horns Longer Than Ears Hunt 2151 Area 032
Valdez, Raina: Carson City: Mule Deer Antlered Hunt 1331 Area 161E and Resident Antlered Elk Hunt 4151 Area 076E
Wood, Richard: Gardnerville: Res Antlered Elk Hunt 4151 Area 111L
Xavier, Michael: Carson City: Mule Deer Antlered Hunt 1331 Area 071E and Antlerless Elk Management Hunt 4481 Area 071
Yates, Albert: Washoe Valley: Mule Deer Antlered Hunt 1331 Area 101M
Zumwalt, Myrna: Carson City: Mule Deer Antlered Hunt 1331 Area 161E

In addition:
Here are some other interesting tags that were drawn:
Brandon, Russell: Virginia City: Black Bear Units 192,194-196, 201, 202, 204, 206, 291 except portions of 192 and 194 listed in reg.
Foerschler, Jack: Carson City: Resident Bighorn Sheep Ewe Hunt 3181 Unit 212
Law, Ronald: Carson City: Wyatt Law's Dad: Mule Deer Longbow Antlered Hunt 1341 Area 061 and Resident Antelope Horns Longer Than Ears Longbow Hunt 2161 Area 061 and Antlerless Elk Management Longbow Hunt 4411 Area 061
Lapointe, Daphne: Washoe Valley: Resident Nelson Bighorn Sheep Hunt 3151 Units 044, 182.
Obrien, Curtis: Carson City: PIW Any Open Antlered Mule Deer Unit Hunt 999 (Statewide)
Sullivan, Patrick: Washoe Valley: Mountain Goat Unit 101
Yang, Scott, Carson City: Mule Deer Antlered Hunt 1331 Area 061E and Resident Antelope Horns Shorter Than Ears Hunt 2181 Area 031 and Antlerless Elk Management Hunt 4481 Area 061 and Resident Spike Elk Hunt 4651 Area 061 (Wow! That's four tags drawn! Congrats Scott!)
Zimmerman, Arlana: Minden: PIW Resident Antlered Elk Hunt 4000 Area 999 (Statewide)
Zumwalt, Tilton: Carson City: Myrna Zumwalt's Husband: Mule Deer Antlered Hunt 1331 Area 161E

Congratulations and Condolences
Congratulations:
To all of you who were successful in drawing one or more big game hunting tags for the 2014 seasons and best wishes for a highly successful hunt or hunts. Well done!

Sincere Condolences:
To all of you who were unsuccessful in drawing a tag and best wishes for having better luck and being successful in the 2015 tag drawings.

Finally
If you, too, would like to see the list of the successful and unsuccessful big game hunters, just go to Internet website www.huntnevada.com.
Once there, click on “Tag Results” and then go to “2014 Main Draw” and click on “Withdrawn,” “Successful,” “Successful Applicants by Hunt and Choice,” “Unsuccessful,” “Rejected” or “Bonus Point” and browse to your heart’s content (like I did). It is very interesting and very, very informative.

Bet Your Favorite Pigeon
Bet your favorite pigeon he can’t tell you which big game tags I applied for.
If he grins and says, “Don and his son Jim applied as a party for a rifle, buck mule deer tag for hunt area No. 192 and they were successful,” he could be one of the many other hunters who were unsuccessful in the drawings.

— Writer Don Quilici is the Outdoor editor for Carson Now. He can be reached at donquilici@hotmail.com.