NM applications

[Nick87]

Drew same muzzy elk tag as last year and archery deer!

No way.

 

[Nick87]

Why you looking?

Occasionally I look back...

 

[Nick87]

It is a HQ deer hunt tho with low tag numbers

Same as last year?

 

[mdeerjunkie]

No way.

Yep, deer for the same unit also. Hopefully make good use of the tags.

 

[Nick87]

Yep, deer for the same unit also. Hopefully make good use of the tags.

Archery deer?

 

[mdeerjunkie]

Archery deer?

Yep for Jan

 

[ImBillT]

NM Non-resi draw odds are a borderline scam.

They were pretty good before you and your buddies started applying. Now they suck.

 

[ImBillT]

Well become a pain to nmdow and ask them to do away with outfitter set aside and make it a 90-10 split

I’m not convinced that putting applicants who currently apply for 16% of the tags into a pool with 10% is gonna help me very much. Besides, New Mexico BHA needs something to whine about and they’re running out of topics.

The math with the current outfitter pool applicants added to the current NR pool applicants spread over 10% does improve draw odds slightly for those of us currently in the 6% pool, but not by a huge margin, and likely not for the long term. The nice thing would be a few of the tags that New Mexico BHA took from NR’s and then gave to no one(their rounding rule change literally just eliminated a few tags, but did nothing for residents at all) would become available to me again.

A change that would help us ALL, residents and non-residents alike, would be to record whether or not you applied in the draw, and if you did, you became ineligible for any private land or OTC permits for that species during that hunting season. A ton of guys plan to hunt private, and apply in the draw to see if they can hunt public in the same unit, or sometimes a better unit. Make them choose. That would boost draw odds substantially. The current system does not use private land or private tags to take pressure off of public demand. Let people hunt private. Let landowners sell access and vouchers. But use that private land to take pressure off of public demand by keeping those hunters out of the draw.

 

[Valley1320]

Same as last year?

No I've never hunted this unit before and it will be my first time rifle hunting deer since I was a kid

 

[Hawk Tuah]

No aoudad or gemsbok tag, but...

 

[Hawk Tuah]

...also no elk tag either.

 

[CMF]

The wife finally drew an elk tag! Headed back to thirtty sics 1st archery! 1/10 on apps.