Recent content by NMhunter4life

The cattleman's association is sounding like a bunch of PETA activists about this whole thing. My only complaint is why pay money for helicopter gunning. Just designate open season on the cattle in that specific area and let the public kill them.

Bought 2

Congratulations. That is a whopper!

Nice elk! You guys made the right decision. I would tell the football coach to pound sand. Coaches and many parents place way too much importance on a bunch of silly games that 99% of the players will never play competitively as an adult. In high school they told my brother he couldn't...

There are plenty of native New Mexicans who are life long democrats and have been for generations. Southeast NM is the only part of the state that is reliably conservative.

You did well. It is very tough, if not impossible to break 40" on the mountain right now. Drought has nothing to do with it. The G&F started the immature/nanny slaughters and did not stop soon enough, which dropped the numbers of ibex down into the "predator pit" zone. There are now way too...

Not many cats in unit 32, so I don't think that is the problem. A lot more coyotes than there were in the old days when many of the ranches ran sheep. I would not apply to hunt deer in NM as a nonresident.

bigbull, You are posting charts of what looks like radar estimated rainfall data. Rainfall can be highly variable even in areas that are 1-2 miles apart. My dad and I have rain gauges 2 miles apart here in SE NM and they can vary quite widely due to localized heavy rains. I checked rain gauge...

I agree. About 10% is fair if they work hard and hold up their end of the bargain, irregardless of success.

It is good that they got rid of the August season in most of southern NM. The bears were skinny and had very thin hair. Not a trophy at all. The same bear in October or November will look much better and be much heavier. Mature sows are generally 5-5.5 feet, boars are 6 feet up to 7.5 feet...

With the rise in popularity in Western hunting I am convinced that if I would like to continue to hunt frequently in the future I am going to have to work hard and just pay the money for landowner tags. By the time you apply in multiple states, accumulate preference points and then eventually...

I had hoped that my fellow hunters weren't the ones in this world that see and hear racism in just about anything that is said. I guess I was wrong. The comment was obviously a joke. Sounds like I would prefer to share a campfire with bobby.

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I don't see a hunting group on that list. NMWF sure isn't one.

I could get on board with getting rid of the Jennings' law. I also think the edible parts of Javelina should have to be retrieved. Not much of a fan of most of the other suggestions.