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<blockquote data-quote="Rcritch" data-source="post: 2743284" data-attributes="member: 125956"><p>I'm a native New Mexican and spent most of my adult years there. Here in CO I'm only 85 miles from an off grid log cabin I own in northern NM where the hunting and fishing is excellent, but too cold for your purposes and, as a CO resident, currently too expensive for me. I first hunted NM 60 years ago when a resident hunting license cost $15 and came with a deer, bear and turkey tag; only draw hunt was for a very limited herd of elk in the Pecos wilderness area. Now there are elk everywhere but everything is a draw.</p><p></p><p>NM residents can hunt without any license at all for the state's non-game and unprotected species: feral hogs, coyotes, skunks, porcupine, prairie dogs, rabbits, ground squirrels, and Himalayan tahr. If you have tons of money you can book excellent hunts on private land and the Indian Reservations. Decent medical care is plentiful in Albuquerque and Santa Fe but you would have to put up with those city's wokeness, crime and leftist political correctness. One very profound hunting opportunity that only NM offers is for Gemsbok (African Oryx) yes, that's also a draw hunt but well worth the wait for a chance at bagging a beautiful trophy animal that has the finest tasting game meat I've ever eaten. An oryx on the White Sands Missile Range is actually more of a big game gathering expedition than an actual hunt, as the on range oryx aren't particularly afraid of men. All trophy oryx hunts on-range are a once in a lifetime draw. But if you're not a trophy hunter a better chance of drawing an oryx license can be found in what the Game Dept. calls the Broken Horn Oryx hunt (we've always called it the Ugly Oryx Hunt. The disadvantage with the BHO hunt is that the ugly oryx population only accounts for 10 to 20 percent of the total population, so it takes a lot more searching to find a legal animal for you tag during a short season.</p><p></p><p>For a retired person another option is the Off-Range Oryx hunts which also have a better chance to draw and the hunt that you apply for is one of the twelve calendar months of the year. That's perfect for a retiree who doesn't have to burn valuable vacation time from work. And by applying for summertime months, when families typically have other vacation plans and/or months with major holidays, college & pro sporting events, etc. further enhances the draw prospects. Off range, however, has the disadvantage that the oryx have grown very wary so that long range shots and closer shots at running animals are the only chances. An advantage to the month long off range hunts is that, while most of the off range oryx habitat is on private ranches, getting landowner permission to hunt is generally pretty easily procured because the oryx are quite destructive, tearing down barbed wire fence and not infrequently killing any cattle that happen to **** the oryx off. I would advise anyone planning to apply for a NM oryx hunt to check out my advice on this site at:</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.longrangehunting.com/threads/drew-oryx-nr-off-range.301015/[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rcritch, post: 2743284, member: 125956"] I'm a native New Mexican and spent most of my adult years there. Here in CO I'm only 85 miles from an off grid log cabin I own in northern NM where the hunting and fishing is excellent, but too cold for your purposes and, as a CO resident, currently too expensive for me. I first hunted NM 60 years ago when a resident hunting license cost $15 and came with a deer, bear and turkey tag; only draw hunt was for a very limited herd of elk in the Pecos wilderness area. Now there are elk everywhere but everything is a draw. NM residents can hunt without any license at all for the state's non-game and unprotected species: feral hogs, coyotes, skunks, porcupine, prairie dogs, rabbits, ground squirrels, and Himalayan tahr. If you have tons of money you can book excellent hunts on private land and the Indian Reservations. Decent medical care is plentiful in Albuquerque and Santa Fe but you would have to put up with those city's wokeness, crime and leftist political correctness. One very profound hunting opportunity that only NM offers is for Gemsbok (African Oryx) yes, that's also a draw hunt but well worth the wait for a chance at bagging a beautiful trophy animal that has the finest tasting game meat I've ever eaten. An oryx on the White Sands Missile Range is actually more of a big game gathering expedition than an actual hunt, as the on range oryx aren't particularly afraid of men. All trophy oryx hunts on-range are a once in a lifetime draw. But if you're not a trophy hunter a better chance of drawing an oryx license can be found in what the Game Dept. calls the Broken Horn Oryx hunt (we've always called it the Ugly Oryx Hunt. The disadvantage with the BHO hunt is that the ugly oryx population only accounts for 10 to 20 percent of the total population, so it takes a lot more searching to find a legal animal for you tag during a short season. For a retired person another option is the Off-Range Oryx hunts which also have a better chance to draw and the hunt that you apply for is one of the twelve calendar months of the year. That's perfect for a retiree who doesn't have to burn valuable vacation time from work. And by applying for summertime months, when families typically have other vacation plans and/or months with major holidays, college & pro sporting events, etc. further enhances the draw prospects. Off range, however, has the disadvantage that the oryx have grown very wary so that long range shots and closer shots at running animals are the only chances. An advantage to the month long off range hunts is that, while most of the off range oryx habitat is on private ranches, getting landowner permission to hunt is generally pretty easily procured because the oryx are quite destructive, tearing down barbed wire fence and not infrequently killing any cattle that happen to **** the oryx off. I would advise anyone planning to apply for a NM oryx hunt to check out my advice on this site at: [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.longrangehunting.com/threads/drew-oryx-nr-off-range.301015/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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