'08/'09 N.Mex LO Tag List

PleaseDear · Jun 10, 2008

If anyone is interested.......

http://www.wildlife.state.nm.us/recreation/hunting/documents/ELK_RANCH_LIST.pdf

UW and RO are listed next to the LO and then the LO tag numbers by bull or cow or either sex and weapon.

They might have deer tags too?????

Robb

BGbasbhat · Jun 11, 2008

Robb
I'm new to applying for NM; but how does this list work? Do we just individually contact the ranch owner and work out the details? What kind and how is money involved? Is the NMGF involved in any way?

For example, the first one on the list:
Andrea Lucero has 1,261 acres in GMU 2, with 1 bull tag, 1 anterless tag, and 2 either sex bow tags?

So lets say I want to go for the 1 bull tag, do I just call her up and negotiate a price?

Thanks for any info. I'm trying to learn the ropes out here in the west. It's not like my farm back in MO, where they just give us tags to shoot what we want!!!

jodog · Jun 11, 2008

Yes thats how it works you can call the LO and negotiate a price. They can sell them for whatever they can get, be it $250 or $5000 or more. I have seen some tags later in the year go for under $500 but in the popular units with big bulls the average price is about $3500 plus the license and that is another $766

BGbasbhat · Jun 11, 2008

Gotcha, thanks for the info. That sounds surprisingly simple. So, does is the license cost the same structure as the draw? If it's a LO tag in a crap unit, will you pay $500 something, instead of the Q/HD $766? I'll see what the draw gives me next week; and who knows, maybe i'll try it.

Thanks again

WapitiBob · Jun 11, 2008

Depends. I haven't figured it out yet but I have only paid the "STD" license fee for the unit 34 vouchers I have purchased.
These vouchers were from the "SCR" draw so that may be the difference.

Biggest problem you have is tag brokers bidding these tag prices up
15, 16's, 17, 34, and 36 are going for over 4K this year.

nmelktrout · Jun 11, 2008

Wapiti nailed it. Unless you are willing to fork over some big $$ it is usually pretty tough to get a landowner to sell tags over the phone. Landowners with just a few tags usually use them for family and/or charge a fat fee, and the tag brokers here have got a pretty good lock down on the market for the primo units. It isn't impossible, just getting harder and harder each year to do so. And believe me, landowners here know the value of their tags. A lot of the bigger ranches already have their tags locked up via their own hunting operations and outiftter leases and such. Try watching the Albuquerque Journal classifieds for tags each morning as they seem to sell like wildfire after the draw results come out. Still some good deals to be found. Be cautious of EBay LO tags purchases in NM. We have had several scams in the past few years. Do your homework!

JJPRO · Jun 11, 2008

It is also tough because the outfitters have had the list for a month now.

BGbasbhat · Jun 11, 2008

Thanks for the info fellas. I gotta get something with my bow this season; but I don't know if I wanna pay thousands for it!!!

Young, poor guys gotta hunt too!!!

PleaseDear · Jun 11, 2008

BG--reads like you are getting the info ya needed.

I do not know where you are from but if ya find a unit you enjoy...drawn tag or LO tag...and want to insure a LO tag...it might be worth the weeks vacation and travel $$ to hook-up with a LO in the unit you enjoy most and spend that week helping him/her out around the farm/ranch doing chores, painting, fencing ect for the cheaper cost of a LO tag year in year out.

Robb

NMPaul · Jun 12, 2008

I got a unit 48 Bull tag even though I live in unit 34. Anybody know what it is worth?

BGbasbhat · Jun 12, 2008

PleaseDear
That's not a bad idea; but living in AZ, there aren't as many landowners as other states.
I would love to do that though. I'd be tickled pink to be able to do some farms work for a tag.

WapitiBob · Jun 12, 2008

>BG--reads like you are getting the
>info ya needed.
>
>I do not know where you
>are from but if ya
>find a unit you enjoy...drawn
>tag or LO tag...and want
>to insure a LO tag...it
>might be worth the weeks
>vacation and travel $$ to
>hook-up with a LO in
>the unit you enjoy most
>and spend that week helping
>him/her out around the farm/ranch
>doing chores, painting, fencing ect
>for the cheaper cost of
>a LO tag year in
>year out.
>
>Robb

That's great idea. Any of your LO buddies looking for a helper? Both my tags came from SCR ranches. Not sure they are guaranteed a 34 tag each year.

Bob