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I'm sure the guides loved the auction tag client$. Great marketing tools for them and lucrative hunts. Auction tags or not, these guides will still get their fair share of the top tags in AZ. The grip and grins will still be all over IG. I do question that AZGF ("they") doesn't need the...

Since AZGF canceled the auction tags, they must have a plan to generate equal or greater revenue from another method. If they don't raise similar revenues, then that loss of revenue will have to be gained somewhere else through license and tag sales. They may vote to stick it to the NR's which...

All Red for me...

Original Founding Father of the Dindonothing tribe...

Thanks guys. Already seen some items I'd likely have forgotten.

My Son and I are headed out from NC to NM for a hunting trip and wanted to get some ideas for a gear list for camping out of the truck. We will be camping and using the truck to get around. Wanted some camp gear lists like stove, LP fuel, tarps, tables, chairs, generator, cords, string lights...

I don't disagree. The more tickets the wealthy guys buy, the better the odds, but at least the broke guys can buy one ticket and have a slim chance to draw it. That's one more fraction of a chance for all the broke guys that they didn't have before.

If that ends up being the case, then I'm actually fine with that as long as the money raised goes to conservation projects and not the general fund.

6 year old thread man! :) At first I was going to quote the OP and ask him where the 12K Dall sheep hunts were. LOL...

In 8 years it went from 17 points in 2015 to 25 points in 2023. That means point creep is the exact same as the point you buy. If you are like me at 21 points, I will never get there in 10 years in the points round. At some point very soon, the creep for non residents will be more than the...

Nice analysis. I've come to a similar conclusion, but not quite as fancy. There are so many factors in play. You've got people just buying points for years that jump in the draw, frustrated people burning points in units they haven't tried before, rifle tag hopefuls switching to archery to...

New Mexico Gila National Forest public land draw tag 2023

That is around 88.5% of the elk tags going to residents, before you figure out how many of the LO tags and outfitter draw tags go to residents. That might as well be a 90-10 split, because you know residents bought land owner tags and a small percentage of residents got in the outfitter draw...

That means 1,017 non residents drew tags in the (DIY) part of the draw? If I interpret that information correctly? Technically the Landowner tags and outfitter draws are for anyone, residents and non residents. I think the % of non residents in the outfitter draw pools would be high, as lots...

New Mexico Gila Bull

Easily this Bull is the coolest one I've seen because he is mine. :cool:

Dang. I had the same tag in 2001 and did run into other hunters every other day. Did experience some of what you did, but back then, there were cow tag hunters in the unit at the same time. So many elk there, they didn't care if they blew the elk out. Always another herd a short walk away for...

My hunt basically went the same, except for about 1-2 minutes of kill mode. It was a grind. Averaged 11 miles per day on foot between 8-9,000 feet. That's a challenge when home is 32'. :) I also wish I was still there with another tag in my pocket or even a friend with a tag. I'd do it again...

That mirrors the other reports I got from the 2nd hunt also. A strangely quiet September.

You still after them? I figured they would be ripping by now.

Awesome! Congrats!

Congrats! Well done.

I've been busy with meat prep. I haven't had a chance to confirm the number they came up with in camp, but I'll get around to it. It's quite a bit more than 340. I can comfortably assure that much. LOL.. I do like the hybrid heads. I've shot the Muzzy HB, Grim Reapers, Grave Digger, Rage...

I've shot a fair amount of whitetails with 2 blade single bevel, double bevel and almost every combination of the above with bleeder blades from recurves, longbows and compounds. They do have excellent penetration, but the blood trails are sparse. Congrats on the stud bull! There is nothing...

Sevr 1.5" First animal I ever shot with it. I was impressed with the entire wound channel.

Gila Bull 35 yards and watched him tip over. Great hunt.

I usually expect a years wait for anything taxidermy. When that year mark comes around, I'm making a phone call to check in.

Thanks for posting. I'm of no help judging, but I like the pictures.

There is no big game magic bullet draw system. Every state that has one does something a little different. Every state has a bunch of people pissing and moaning about not drawing tags. There are two options to solve the issues and both of them are troublesome. #1 would be reduce the amount of...

He comes to our camp most years. He's pretty cool to have around camp. He's terrified of fire, but he likes beef jerky and a couple Coors Lights, and he's on his way. Somehow, he draws LE elk tags every year.

I'll try to leave one for ya. :ROFLMAO:

Confirmed... Mine showed up this afternoon! Any 1 Elk 16A Sept 1-14.

My tag should be in the mail today. I'm a NR so they should be showing up soon.

Can you PM me your contact info, or allow me to PM you? I may want a tag in the future. I'm good for this year.

I had my normal emergency kit of archery stuff with me. You never know what will self implode at any time. I worked in an archery shop while I was in school, so it wasn't much of a brain buster to get it set up and shooting close. I'll admit that I was shocked to say the least. The guy was...

Having never shot a bow before, I don't think it would have mattered. LOL...

I drew 16A archery elk 2nd season back in 2001. A guy showed up in camp late in the afternoon before the opener. He moved all his gear in his tent and went back to his car and pulled out a Cabela's shopping bag and a long cardboard box that a brand new bow comes in. My first thought was.... No...

I can't recall a single hunting species, in any state or country, that is cheaper now than it was at any time previously. Everything is more expensive and most of it is double or triple the cost of what it was 20+ years ago. And in the vast majority of these hunts, the quality is same or...