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Anybody out there who has some info on the quality of their hunt this year? I hunted with a guide who has great eyes, but we just didn't see the number of big bucks the Unit is known to have in January. Almost no rutting. The bucks we did see were in bachelor groups.
 
Ten-four on the poaching. We met an oil field worker who said that the bodies of three large bucks had been found with the antlers cut. Any credence to the story we heard that they just haven't made it down from the high country?
 
If the High country has snow the bucks are down. Get ready for more snow heading that way early next week.


"I have found if you go the extra mile it's Never crowded".
 
All the deer that came down from the high country have gotten there. This is off the NMG&F website
New Mexico Department of Game and Fish
Media contact: Martin Frentzel, (505) 476-8013
Public contact: (505) 476-8000
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, DEC. 30, 2009:

DEER, ELK AND ANTELOPE HIT HARD BY POACHERS IN NORTHWESTERN NM

FARMINGTON -- Department of Game and Fish conservation officers are investigating multiple poaching cases in Northwestern New Mexico involving deer, elk and antelope.

Fourteen deer, one elk and three antelope are known to have been killed illegally so far this winter. While no parts of the antelope were removed from the scenes of the crimes, ?the majority of the deer and the elk have only had the heads removed, and the rest was left to rot? said Brad Ryan, Aztec District Conservation Officer in Aztec.

Large mule deer are particularly susceptible to poaching at this time of year because they are breeding and not as wary as usual. In early December, three of the deer were discovered decapitated on the ?Rosa? portion of the Bureau of Land Management property near Navajo Lake.

Other headless deer have been found in Ahagadero Canyon on the Jicarilla District of the Carson National Forest, the Horse Wash area in game management unit 2A, Middle Mesa north of Navajo Lake State Park, near Lindrith, Heron Lake State Park and near the Laguna Vista subdivision adjacent to Heron Lake. The elk was found at mile marker 99 on US 64 east of Bloomfield.

?These big deer are the reason Northern New Mexico is known for great deer hunting,? said Bill Taylor, Game Manager for Northwest Area Operations. ?If poachers continue to kill these big deer for their antlers, disrupting the breeding cycle, we could see a decrease in the population and quality of deer harvested in the region.?

The three dead antelope were killed about 5 miles north of Kirtland along an oil field service road.

Largo District Conservation Officer Matt Anthony said, ?Two of the antelope were killed between Dec. 26 and 27, and a third antelope found within a half mile of the other two had been dead for approximately a week.?

This case is unique because nothing was taken from the animals.

Investigations of these incidents are pending, but anyone with information about these cases or any other examples of the illegal take of wildlife should call the Operation Game Thief hotline, (800) 432-4263. Rewards are being offered; up to $750 in the elk poaching case, up to $500.00 in the deer poaching case and up to $350.00 in the antelope case. To qualify, tipsters must provide information resulting in an arrest or charges being filed.

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Thats just what the GM&F found.These are deer that I take pics of every year.I hope they find and punish these people to the full extent of the law.
 
Thanks, guys:

Just the kind of input I was looking for .....but hoping it was more encouraging. Not to slam NMG&G, crazeymaez, but something tells me the oil field workers found the bodies and reported to G&F who then documented the kills. In five days of hunting we saw hundreds of oil field workers ..........zero G&F......unless they were driving white trucks with Conoco-Phillips on the side. Interesting to me how every worker we talked to (about 5) was really "into" big muleys.....one even showed us a monster he had as his screen saver on his laptop.
Also noted that at 4PM there is a mass exedous of white trucks going back to Bloomfield. Excepted for the manned pumping stations, the place is deserted at night.
Maybe we should swithch to poacher hunting .......no tag required....longer season.
 
I feel your pain Western Wyoming as been having the same problems for awhile now and the more oil field activity the worse the winter deer heard has been doing. Not saying it is oil field workers but it very well might be. As someone who has worked on a rig, at times they don't attract the most upstanding people. But more roads in wintering areas the more visible these rutting buck become. I can really hurt a deer population.
 
2B has suffered greatly lately. Lots of poaching and huge oilfield traffic really has destroyed a once good unit.
 
I was there Jan 1st-5th saw a dozen 170+ bucks, including this 183 that I shot


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183? Nice buck with a bow 4 sure. Have any other pics.?
 
Good looking Buck, It might of been a hard hunt for some but you did pretty good.


"I have found if you go the extra mile it's Never crowded".
 
it is not jus 2b suffering from paochin! evn 18 17 and 19 hav been hit alot! there was evn a huge bull takes out of bosque del apache refuge last weekend! i think game and fish needs to really do more about atoping this crap!
 
this is a .little better photo. Glassed bucks up, watched evening pattern and then sat and waited. How does 2-c compare to 2-b?




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Hunted 9 days great place to shoot a small buck.Oil rig people we talked to said poachers have been hitting it hard for some time.Most of the good bucks poached long before season opens.It showed!!!!
 
My big brother services the pump jacks throughout the 2s' and he said the deer numbers were down a bit this past year but he said there was way more truck traffic through out all the winter.Many guys ask him about the deer yet many claim to be out looking for coyotes, which many could.But there is just way too much traveled roads out there and not enough g&f patrol and as mentioned above, this can be taking place at night. As the states most prestigous trophy area, you would think that the game and fish would seriously put in a little more time and sting this area.I HATE POACHERS!!!
 

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