Anyone from New Mexico?
12-04-2008, 01:43 PM
#11
Spike
Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 61
RE: Anyone from New Mexico?
ORIGINAL: vichris
I'll throw in something else too. There are many more hunting opportunities here than meet the eye. We have elk mule deer and antelope as the big three. But don't forget about coues deer, oryx, (easy draw for resident.....I'm hearing the off range orxy hunts may go over the counter next year) ibex, Aoudad or barbary sheep, (over the counter for most of the state) javalina, Big horn, bear, turkey, cougar. In addition we have some awesome goose and duck hunting, and great dove & quail hunting too. NM has some real quality hunting and you can get drawn for at least one or two hunts for big game every year. Most years I hunt elk, deer, and oryx. You can always hunt bear, turkey, barbary sheep, cougar,dove and quail OTC not to mention yotes and bobcats too.
ORIGINAL: skb2706
If you have never been here or hunted here you first response is odd in that "not any better" assumes there is a negative side to being here. Much unlike the east where typically there is a hunter behind every tree, hunting here in the west is open, where I go seldom see any other hunters and we have two kinds of deer, antelope and elk along with all the little stuff. do you have a huntable population of those in TN.
ORIGINAL: Jacob Garrett
heading to Colorado. I don't know if thats any better but atleast there hunting laws seem a bit easier to understand.
heading to Colorado. I don't know if thats any better but atleast there hunting laws seem a bit easier to understand.
12-09-2008, 12:01 PM
#12
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: IL
Posts: 6,575
RE: Anyone from New Mexico?
I'm a non res and the rules seem to be perfectly legible...
Simply read whatever you need to figure out....maybe once you get a hang of how they run the system that'll help you understand...
There's plenty of great hunting in NM...
Don't be turned off.
Simply read whatever you need to figure out....maybe once you get a hang of how they run the system that'll help you understand...
There's plenty of great hunting in NM...
Don't be turned off.
01-06-2009, 05:10 PM
#14
Fork Horn
Thread Starter
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 144
RE: Anyone from New Mexico?
The rule book just doesn't read like the Tn book and it seems more complicated due to all the regions and draw tags and everything. We have 3 regions in Tn and the only tag draws we have are for wildlife management areas so I am not used to anything like that. I guess I will be out there by mid summer. I am not going to Co. for sure now. I am looking at houses in the East Mountain area. I was told the weather was better there than it is down in the basin? Do you have Whitetails down there? Thats the only big game we have here besides hogs and turkey. So anything other than that is new to me.
01-15-2009, 10:08 AM
#16
Fork Horn
Thread Starter
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 144
RE: Anyone from New Mexico?
The best I can get from the NM dnr website is you can't hunt big game there unless you have all your tags applied for and paid in full by April. The tags there are high just to apply for them. If you don't get drawn are you just out the hundreds of dollars and better luck next year or do you get your money back or what? From what I read you would have close to a grand in tag applications just to hope you get drawn for something. The way it looks in the book you would have to have plenty of cash just to get a chance to hunt or mabey I just don't understand the way it works. I also read about a non refundable $9 application fee. Do you pay that fee to get in the draw then pay for the tag if your drawn?
03-15-2013, 01:29 PM
#17
Spike
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Eastern New Mexico
Posts: 1
I'm fairly new to the NM area, and am also finding the reg book here a little confusing. Some good info here, although some may have changed in recent years. I believe I have missed the drawing for elk, but I thought I read that there were over the counter tags. If some one had the time to explain the OTC tags it would be appreciated. I have read through the reg, but still not quite sure how it works.
05-30-2013, 08:15 AM
#18
Spike
Join Date: May 2013
Posts: 4
The NM rule book has come a long way over the past 10 years, but here's a primer on NM licensing. Obviously there's lots more details, and I'm only touching on a small part of the system.
Hunters generally acquire licenses to hunt in NM (most to least common) 1) by winning in the draw, or 2) after purcasing a "land-owner authorization" typically sold by ranchers which allows one to buy a license from the state, or 3) over the counter (OTC) for a short list of species, or 4) through an online race (sort of OTC) for "left over tags", 5) by getting called for a population management (depradation) hunt, or 6) win a some sort of fund-raising raffle or auction, or 7) win some other special raffle run by G&F.
The draw application deadline in 2013 was March 20 (I'm sorry, but I just found this forum). See page 15 (2013 edition) for list of licenses and fees. There are several ways to "game" the draw to improve your chances of drawing and there are resident/NR quotas attached to the draw.
Land-owner authorizations are available for elk, deer, and antelope (maybe some others). The state Dept of Game and Fish issues a list of land owners and authorizations can be found on Craigslist too. You pay the land owner to transfer the authorization, and then you pay the state for the hunting licence. Watch out for "ranch only" vs "unit wide" authorizatins; there are pros and cons both ways, and which depend on the ranch. No quotas here, money talks.
OTC licenses are available for turkey, bear & cougar subject areal and bag limits; oryx, barbary sheep, ibex outside the premium areas, and "fur-bearer" trapping.
Getting a licence through a raffle, and auction, or getting called for a depradation hunt is really a low-likelyhood event. Even buying a left-over tag on-line is very hard. There are almost never left over elk or deer tags.
Lemme know if this helps.
Hunters generally acquire licenses to hunt in NM (most to least common) 1) by winning in the draw, or 2) after purcasing a "land-owner authorization" typically sold by ranchers which allows one to buy a license from the state, or 3) over the counter (OTC) for a short list of species, or 4) through an online race (sort of OTC) for "left over tags", 5) by getting called for a population management (depradation) hunt, or 6) win a some sort of fund-raising raffle or auction, or 7) win some other special raffle run by G&F.
The draw application deadline in 2013 was March 20 (I'm sorry, but I just found this forum). See page 15 (2013 edition) for list of licenses and fees. There are several ways to "game" the draw to improve your chances of drawing and there are resident/NR quotas attached to the draw.
Land-owner authorizations are available for elk, deer, and antelope (maybe some others). The state Dept of Game and Fish issues a list of land owners and authorizations can be found on Craigslist too. You pay the land owner to transfer the authorization, and then you pay the state for the hunting licence. Watch out for "ranch only" vs "unit wide" authorizatins; there are pros and cons both ways, and which depend on the ranch. No quotas here, money talks.
OTC licenses are available for turkey, bear & cougar subject areal and bag limits; oryx, barbary sheep, ibex outside the premium areas, and "fur-bearer" trapping.
Getting a licence through a raffle, and auction, or getting called for a depradation hunt is really a low-likelyhood event. Even buying a left-over tag on-line is very hard. There are almost never left over elk or deer tags.
Lemme know if this helps.
