Where to go?

[Calif. Hunter]

(I'm sure some of you will have some suggestions for me... hump )


Our usual access route into good elk country has been shut down, due to a land swap with the NM state lands and the Double H ranch (RMEF). :MAD |oo

So - I am looking for suggestions on where to go for a decent muley. Now I know you aren't going to post your hot spots on the web, but if someone has room for an extra guy or two, send me an email or a PM.

I can go outfitted, within reason, if I need to, but would really prefer decent public land. I may just spend a lot of time with the topo maps to see if there is a way to get to the area we used to hunt, by hoofing it over the intervening range of mountains.

After years of hunting and finally finding a decent area for bull elk, it just frosts me to have the area landlocked behind locked gates!

 

[Nut]

shouldn't ya have put this in the elk section?

 

[Calif. Hunter]

I'm open to elk or deer!

 

[Quick Draw]

Isn't there a back way into the area or is it closed completly? But since I don't really hunt your area then I have no idea really.
Quick Draw

 

[Calif. Hunter]

I'm checking on that. I may have to go in on the forest roads that are crawling with ATVs and go over a ridge or two.

 

[JB]

i was goona suggest an atv.............but you gotta have the build for one of those. cali ,are you a fat bastard?

 

[danr55]

Try the Tom Moore Canyon area on the east side of the Gila. It's about half way between Membres River Valley and Reserve NM.. It's public land, there are a few deer and you have most of the country to yourself.

 

[Calif. Hunter]

Yeah, JB - I'm a fat bastard.



But I walk. When I was skinny, I ran.



Thanks for the info, Danr. I'll have to check the regs for the unit #.