Permission troubles

[stevie]

This year I packed the truck and went on an exploratory waterfowl hunt around Roswell. I hunted Bitter Lakes and the Bottomless Lakes overflow wetlands. Those places were not that great. Too many hunters.

Anyway, after the morning hunts I spent significant time finding the fields the cranes were feeding in and seeking permission to hunt those fields with decoys. Noone would give me that permission.

When I was in school at Texas Tech, I did the same thing for cranes and received permission everytime I asked.


Was I just unlucky or is that the norm in the Pecos Valley? I would love to try again because the cranes were everywhere.

 

[JACOB2006]

Welcome to NM. Thats the norm statewide!!!!!!

 

[WapitiBob]

maybe they need LO tags??

 

[smarba]

Standard MO here in NM, based on my experience.

Only time I've ever been granted permission is for javelina; apparently some landowners hate them enough to let people on property on occasion. But any other big game...no way. Never tried for birds, but doensn't surprise me.

 

[philthy]

Yep, the story of my life while I was stationed at Cannon.

 

[mailman]

Went down south this November to do some Coues and hog hunting. When asked for permission to hunt ferral hogs on the ranch(there a nuisence and destroy everything) the ranch hand said "nope the LO brings his cronies and wont let anyone on the property".Those were the Aire's the Anhiesher Busch. Since then I havent bought one budweiser.

 

[mozey]

I don't even bother with it--if I owned a bunch of huntable land, I wouldn't let someone that looks like me hunt it either...

 

[stevie]

LAST EDITED ON Jan-18-11 AT 06:11PM (MST)[p]I wonder if its NM or if times have changed. I mentioned that I always got permission to hunt cranes (and geese and ducks) around Lubbock. That was 15 years ago.

I remember deer hunting a couple of ranches NE of Cooke's Peak in 89, 90 and 91. My Dad paid a $40 trespass fee for each of us. It was pretty good hunting too.

 

[nmwapiti]

I had a different experience a couple of weeks ago. I was down in 30 and went a couple days early to scout. I was driving out in the middle of nowhere and turned a corner and saw a house. I couldn't believe there was a house way out where I was. Any way I drive up and knock on the door and met the property owner. Turns out the whole area I was driving around was private and I had no idea. This guy takes me in his house and I meet the whole family! He continues to give me the layout of the ranch, tells me where I can camp and even stopped to check on me one day since I was solo. It was a great experience.

 

[elkmuzzleloader]

Dont think it just NM. I was in Colorado for Thanksgiving and wanted to go shoot prairie dogs. I stopped at several ranches and got excuses from there my pets to Im going to try and kill them with weasels. So I packed up and went back to the house.