We did work for them but I feel we got lucky with the quality of coues we killed. Even if we draw the same tags next year I doubt we will both come away with the same quality of coues.
redwood,
I've spent a fair amount of time in the units South of I-10 in NM and have never seen illegal aliens trekking through the brush or any suspicious vehicles. However, I regularly see boarder patrol agents in some very remote areas. A large majority of the illegals don't want to be seen and avoid running into other people. Maybe I'll see some "mules" packing drugs next time I go out to call coyotes but I try to avoid areas right next to the boarder that to me seem like "high traffic" areas. In reality driving down the highway to get to the hunting spot is more dangerous than running into illegals. I work at the trauma hospital that receives all the really bad traumas from Southern NM and West Texas and I don't remember seeing a hunter or hiker that had been injured by an illegal alien or drug trafficers. There were a couple hunters that claimed they were shot by illegals but they really shot each other and tried to blame cartel. I have seen boarder patrol agents that have been injured but it is their job to confront people crossing the boarder illegally. If I see a suspicious group of people while in the brush close to the boarder I have no intention of confronting them.
