Lincoln is not my normal spot. Generally Nevada is dry. In Nov you could get anything-snow, rain, dust. Most of the Elk are above 5000 feet-as is most of the state so, coming from the East, you will need to remember to drink fluids all day-even if you don't feel thirsty. Open country-best to have great glass and good boots. Once you get on the elk, the hiking begins. hills have some vegetation and it thickens to conifer forests in some areas. Water courses can have aspens whcih can be too thick to walk in. I have seen giant bulls down in Ely (north a ways from Lincoln)and you can expect to see deer but no goats down that way. You might see sheep. Lions are pretty common but you just don't see them-just tracks. Nov sounds like a rifle hunt as most of our bow hunts are early, but you can use a bow in rifle seasons. My son has a rifle cow tag in Ely in our normal spot. Weather is jsut plain unpredicatble so you need to be prepared fro nayhting from shirt sleeves to full woolens. Two days laater it can change again. If it were an area I hunted I'd have given you mounain ranges and drainages, sorry