iccyman001
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New Mexico has proven to be a very military friendly state when it comes to hunting.
I was fortunate enough to draw the 2015 returning veterans Oryx tag on Stallion range (Feb 2016 hunt) and needless to say I was amped up. Well, it didn't stop there....
A few weeks before my hunt Gilbert called me up and explained that an outfitter had donated his services and wanted to guide one of the returning veterans tags, for FREE. They put our names in a hat, and what do you know.... I WAS THE LUCKY GUY.
I want to give the BIGGEST thanks POSSIBLE to James from Provencio Outdoor Adventures.
This guy was a madman in the field when it came to spotting Oryx, devising plans of attacks and for putting me on the big Oryx. We were only able to hunt Saturday and Sunday, but we still saw at a minimum 75 oryx. This is while other people were saying they only saw a few and couldn't find them....
I don't have any other experience with guides, but I would say James has set a very high bar. First off he put up with me and my 3 knucklehead guest and that alone was impressive, but to be serious, we put in a few LONG stalks..... some which included us belly crawling for over 1/2 mile on our bellies in 78 degree weather..... two different times. For anyone who is familiar with stallion, you can only imagine the fun stuff we crawled through.The thing was he never gave up and that meant a lot to me, because I was going to keep going until I got one!
The biggest thing that all my buddies and I agreed on was James is extremely passionate about what he does and hunting in general.
So thank you again James for a fantastic time and thanks NM for really taking care of the military.
I was fortunate enough to draw the 2015 returning veterans Oryx tag on Stallion range (Feb 2016 hunt) and needless to say I was amped up. Well, it didn't stop there....
A few weeks before my hunt Gilbert called me up and explained that an outfitter had donated his services and wanted to guide one of the returning veterans tags, for FREE. They put our names in a hat, and what do you know.... I WAS THE LUCKY GUY.
I want to give the BIGGEST thanks POSSIBLE to James from Provencio Outdoor Adventures.
This guy was a madman in the field when it came to spotting Oryx, devising plans of attacks and for putting me on the big Oryx. We were only able to hunt Saturday and Sunday, but we still saw at a minimum 75 oryx. This is while other people were saying they only saw a few and couldn't find them....
I don't have any other experience with guides, but I would say James has set a very high bar. First off he put up with me and my 3 knucklehead guest and that alone was impressive, but to be serious, we put in a few LONG stalks..... some which included us belly crawling for over 1/2 mile on our bellies in 78 degree weather..... two different times. For anyone who is familiar with stallion, you can only imagine the fun stuff we crawled through.The thing was he never gave up and that meant a lot to me, because I was going to keep going until I got one!
The biggest thing that all my buddies and I agreed on was James is extremely passionate about what he does and hunting in general.
So thank you again James for a fantastic time and thanks NM for really taking care of the military.
