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Anyone get lucky in New Mexico......for a tag.

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19 April 2018, 04:23
farbedo
Anyone get lucky in New Mexico......for a tag.
I pulled a bit fat nada. Again. As usual. Then again, if you swing for the fences, you often come up short.

Hope someone got something fun we can all secretly hate you for.

Jeremy
19 April 2018, 05:24
Topgun 30-06
My Wyoming buddy went 0 for 4 on the NM draws today!
19 April 2018, 05:26
COYOTE HUNTER
Rhodes canyon oryx.
19 April 2018, 05:57
WBT
Struck out on elk and sheep as usual.
19 April 2018, 07:24
Skip Nantz
No for my 3 apps...

And goose egg for my daughter on 4 Tags.


Skip Nantz
19 April 2018, 18:07
Harold R. Stephens
Drew first rifle mule deer Unit 30. As an NR, even that is ruff at about 6% draw odds.


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Member of the Texas Cull Hunters Association
19 April 2018, 19:00
T.J.
I went with higher odds this year. Got an elk in Unit 50, hunting buddy got elk in 6C, and my big brother got blanked.

We all got the same muley tag in Unit 45.

That Unit 45 elevation sure seems like fun for a bunch of flatlanders like us.



19 April 2018, 19:05
Colorado Bob
No gila bull for me.
20 April 2018, 01:23
DesertRam
Well, I pretty much got hosed. Out of seven applications, I pulled only my third choice deer hunt. Nothing else.

Ah, but to have the luck of my two older kids. One applied for three hunts and drew a great youth elk hunt in the Gila (when they should be bugling) and a broken horn oryx hunt on Stallion Range. The other applied for five hunts and drew the same elk hunt (applied with her brother above), an off-range oryx hunt for January, and a Rocky Mountain bighorn ewe hunt in the Pecos of northern New Mexico.

So, even though I don't get to hunt for myself much, I get to live quite vicariously through the kids.


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20 April 2018, 05:22
Wyben
Friend and I drew Barbary Sheep.
20 April 2018, 05:25
dampatents
one out of 8 for both of us... Unit 16 deer
20 April 2018, 22:04
graybird
quote:
Originally posted by DesertRam:
Well, I pretty much got hosed. Out of seven applications, I pulled only my third choice deer hunt. Nothing else.

Ah, but to have the luck of my two older kids. One applied for three hunts and drew a great youth elk hunt in the Gila (when they should be bugling) and a broken horn oryx hunt on Stallion Range. The other applied for five hunts and drew the same elk hunt (applied with her brother above), an off-range oryx hunt for January, and a Rocky Mountain bighorn ewe hunt in the Pecos of northern New Mexico.

So, even though I don't get to hunt for myself much, I get to live quite vicariously through the kids.


Since I've started hunting with not only my boys, but my buddy's sons, their friends and daughters, I find these hunts more rewarding.

The facial expressions of both success and failures are priceless!! Memories that the kids will remember the rest of their lives!

A picture from last week.


Good luck on your hunts, it sounds like an epic fall in your future!!!


Graybird

"Make no mistake, it's not revenge he's after ... it's the reckoning."
20 April 2018, 23:54
DesertRam
That's a great pictures graybird. We've tried a few times for turkeys with no luck yet. More to go.

I'm quite excited about the kids' hunts and hope your wish of "epic" comes to be. Even if they fill half their tags, I'll need more freezer space!

Good luck to all you others who will be hunting NM this year.


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21 April 2018, 18:32
Toomany Tools
Bull Elk, second hunt, Unit 21A. Deer, second hunt, Unit 21. I can’t explain why I’ve been so lucky with the draw.


John Farner

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22 April 2018, 00:08
farbedo
John,

You had an elk tag for 21A a couple of years ago, didn't you. I remember a photo of you and a great bull.

Good luck to everyone that drew. Maybe next year for me.

Jeremy
22 April 2018, 08:56
LittleJoe
Applied for years, actually decades. Drawn one tag in all that time, Gemsbok. Never drawn anything else. Frowner
22 April 2018, 19:30
Toomany Tools
quote:
Originally posted by farbedo:
John,

You had an elk tag for 21A a couple of years ago, didn't you. I remember a photo of you and a great bull.

Good luck to everyone that drew. Maybe next year for me.

Jeremy


That’s right, second bull tag in three seasons and a cow tag in the middle. Hunting again with Mike Root.


John Farner

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25 April 2018, 01:10
cooperjd
my pops pulled an archery elk tag in the Gila, after about 12 years of trying. he is really pumped. He and I will be going on an archery elk hunt in CO, then he'll hang with me and his new grandson for a couple days, and head down to NM to chase gila bulls. i'm happy for him. unfortunately i can't go film, since the newborn is now home.