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I'm interested in learning about options for hunting Ibex in the US. I know you can hunt them in Southern New Mexico. Does anyone know if there are there any other places in the US that have Ibex available to hunt (other than at high fence ranches). How about Mexico? | ||
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I believe only NM has free roaming Ibex. The problem is getting a permit. I know it has become expensive and I believe it is a once in a lifetime permit. We offer Gemsbok hunts in NM (on and off range) but not Ibex...yet anyway. LDK Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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I have never heard of another free ranging herd besides the Persian Ibex in the Florida Mountains of southern New Mexico. The 15 rifle tags are very hard to draw, and are in fact once-in-a-lifetime. Of those 15, only one or two would go to non-residents. Muzzleloader and bow tags, while still relatively scarce, are not once-in-a-lifetime as of this year's regulation booklet. You probably have a pretty decent chance of drawing a bow tag, but with success rates at about 2%, you're basically just going for the fun of it. I'll be back at it on the 11th for four days...  _____________________ A successful man is one who earns more money than his wife can spend. | |||
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What New Mexico should do is sell 30 tags regardless of take. Selling tags based on take is stupid, that and in this case it gives 20% of the hunters 30% of the tags. | |||
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Next year there's about 160 tags, with bow tags increasing to 100 from the current 50. Apparently bowhunting has such minimal impact on the population they're going to increase opportunity. All you have to do is take up bowhunting. Of course, since most of their range is BLM land, you could just go hike around and watch them, which is pretty much what you do when bowhunting.  _____________________ A successful man is one who earns more money than his wife can spend. | |||
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Oh, and by the way, the NM Dept. of Game and Fish cares nothing about the "take" or the quality of the hunt. As far as I can tell, their only concern is money generation so the game commissioners can stay appointed. The game commission manages money, not game. The poor shmucks in the field (hunters and wardens) are just bent over a barrel in the process... _____________________ A successful man is one who earns more money than his wife can spend. | |||
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Desert Ram I think your right. I lived in Socorro and my father used to work at the BLM office there in the early 1990s. Everything in New Mexico get's hammered on public land. | |||
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At 1600 bucks a tag for non-residents NM is pretty proud of them! I lived in Cruces for 4 years while attending NMSU. Love that part of the country. Shot my first deer up behind Caballo mt. Should have been putting in for Ibex while I lived there I guess! I remember in a marketing class at NMSU we had one of the tourism directors for the State come in and talk. I asked them how they marketed NM to tourists from a hunting perspective given all the great land and opportunities there are. She said they did not go after the sportsmen "they just spend money on gas and hotel while they are in the state". Seemed very short sighted to me. My wife and I opened a Christian Bookstore in Las Cruces while we were there. We always use to say that during lean times, NM seems to just barely squeak by economically, however in times of plenty, NM seems to just barely squeak by... | |||
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Ah, a fellow Aggie. I are a graduate of NMSU too! I love your quote about the "Land of Entrapment" - I'll have to remember that one. As a non-resident paying $1600 bucks you probably have a better chance of getting a tag than me. Tell you what, if you get a tag, I'll volunteer to help you pack that stinkin' goat off the mountain! _____________________ A successful man is one who earns more money than his wife can spend. | |||
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Class of 94! Sounds like a deal! I'll take you up on it! | |||
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Short Hi-jack....... Hey D99, Did you know Mike G., the ADC Officer in Socorro? I have called a lot of coyotes around there with him and pissed on Ted Turner's and (at that time) Hanoi Jane's ranch north of White Sands. Bob There is room for all of God's creatures....right next to the mashed potatoes. http://texaspredatorposse.ipbhost.com/   | |||
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Bob, I didn't but Dad probably did. If you can draw a tag the gemsbok deal on white sands is easy do-it-yourselfer. An Ibex tag cost $1500, I am sure you could shoot a hybrid ibex that would look similar to the Persian for $1000-2500 in Texas. Pure Nubians are about $4000-9000, Markhor are around $300 an inch, and Tur and Alpine ibex are around $10,000. | |||
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'97 for me. We were there at the same time - I started in August '93. Just shoot me a PM when you want to head back to NM. I'll be ready and waiting. _____________________ A successful man is one who earns more money than his wife can spend. | |||
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