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<blockquote data-quote="WildRose" data-source="post: 2448565" data-attributes="member: 30902"><p>Many moons ago my dad and I did and for a long time we had family on the reservation so I spent a fair bit of time crawling all over it in my younger days.</p><p></p><p>I also frquently drove between Ruidoso and El Paso when they were redoing the highway and there was a 20 plus mile detour that ran through the reservation on a tinly little two lane that was barely wide enough to be called such.</p><p></p><p>On more than one occasion I had to lock it up to keep from plowing into elk and at night we never exceeded 35mph because the deer and elk were so thick and had pretty much absolutely no fear of man or our vehicles.</p><p></p><p>We also used to do quite a bit of fishing and backpacking on the areas surrounding the reservation and the abundance of Elk in there always had me in awe.</p><p></p><p>15k may seem like a lot of money but think of what it costs to do a DIY hunt and consider most folks won't be successful on a trophy bull even one out of five trips.</p><p></p><p>Of course the best of the USF&W and state managed lands with the richest game become more expensive and harder to draw for every year so that's a consideration as well.</p><p></p><p>As for the guides, unless something has changed the only people allowed to guide on the reservation are tribal member residents and my experiences with them were all extremely positive. Dad never came home without filling his tags when he hunted there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WildRose, post: 2448565, member: 30902"] Many moons ago my dad and I did and for a long time we had family on the reservation so I spent a fair bit of time crawling all over it in my younger days. I also frquently drove between Ruidoso and El Paso when they were redoing the highway and there was a 20 plus mile detour that ran through the reservation on a tinly little two lane that was barely wide enough to be called such. On more than one occasion I had to lock it up to keep from plowing into elk and at night we never exceeded 35mph because the deer and elk were so thick and had pretty much absolutely no fear of man or our vehicles. We also used to do quite a bit of fishing and backpacking on the areas surrounding the reservation and the abundance of Elk in there always had me in awe. 15k may seem like a lot of money but think of what it costs to do a DIY hunt and consider most folks won't be successful on a trophy bull even one out of five trips. Of course the best of the USF&W and state managed lands with the richest game become more expensive and harder to draw for every year so that's a consideration as well. As for the guides, unless something has changed the only people allowed to guide on the reservation are tribal member residents and my experiences with them were all extremely positive. Dad never came home without filling his tags when he hunted there. [/QUOTE]
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