Deputies in Storey County responded to a property in Virginia City on Monday after a resident found a dead deer with a projectile wound in their yard.
The resident told law enforcement the deer jumped into their yard before falling down, according to a post from the Storey County Sheriff's Office on Facebook.
While the deer was being inspected, a man walked up carrying a hunting bow, and it was determined that he had a legally obtained and valid mule deer tag, was in his drawn tag area on public lands near Six Mile Canyon Road, and had shot a mule deer with his bow.
The deer had walked from public lands onto private property before dying.
The resident gave the hunter permission to enter the property and retrieve the deer.
All tags and locations were confirmed by deputies. No criminal actions occurred.
In light of the incident, the SCSO shared hunting regulations from the Nevada Department of Wildlife.
- License Requirements - Any person 12 years of age or older who hunts game birds or mammals in Nevada is required to have a hunting license.
- Possession and Display of License - Every person required to have a license while hunting, trapping, or fishing shall have that license in their possession and available for inspection upon demand of any officer authorized to enforce the fish and game laws of the state of Nevada.
- Highway Wildlife Crossing - A wildlife highway crossing is any overpass or underpass designated and constructed to facilitate a safe passage of wildlife across a highway. It is unlawful to hunt or take game mammals within 1/2 mile of a wildlife highway crossing, or discharge any firearm from, upon, over, or across a wildlife highway crossing.
- Firing Firearm From/Over Roads - A person may not discharge a firearm from, upon, over, or across any federal, state, main, or general county road.
- Unlawful to Waste Game - It is unlawful to waste any edible portion of any game bird, game mammal, game fish, or game amphibian. Heads, antlers, horns, or tusks cannot be the only part of an animal taken from the field. You can leave the carcass of a carnivore.
- Reasonable Effort Required to Take Wildlife - Each person who shoots and wounds any wildlife while hunting shall make a reasonable effort to take that wildlife, including, without limitation, pursuing and tracking it.
- Hunting on Posted Lands Without Permission - It is unlawful for any person to hunt, trap, or fish on private property without permission obtained by the owner or occupant of the private property. Any person using that property to hunt, fish, or trap shall comply with the provisions of NRS 207.200.
