Bezoar Ibex/New Mex

22 September 2002, 18:55

<GilaMonster>

Bezoar Ibex/New Mex

This is my best of nine Bezoar (Persian) Ibex that I've taken from the Florida Mountains in S. New Mexico. I had the help of a friend on this hunt but all the others were done without any assistance. This hunt is a draw hunt in New Mexico and tags are quite difficult to draw now because of reduced numbers, but at one time they were fairly easy to get. The longest horn measured a little over 44 in. and he scored 103 0/8 SCI. I took him in 1993.

23 September 2002, 03:42

Bob in TX

GilaMonster,

Outstanding trophy!!!

Congrats,

Bob

23 September 2002, 18:33

Saad

A beautiful trophy. Cangratulations!

When were these animals introduced in Florida?

Saad

25 September 2002, 05:09

<GilaMonster>

Saad, to my knowledge, they have never been itroduced into Florida except bossibly on private game ranches. This I don't know. These were placed in the Florida Mountains in southern New Mexico. The first Bezoar Ibex (Persian Ibex) to be imported into the United States were imported as gifts from the Governor of the Province of Kermanshah in iran to the Gov. of New Mexico and supplimented with additional females imported and also gifts by the Shikar-Safari Club in 1967 and 1968. Offspring from these original animals were first released into the wild in the Florida Mountains in December 1970. [Big Grin]

25 September 2002, 05:13

amosgreg

WOW!
Great Trophy Gila Monster!
Thanks for sharing!

25 September 2002, 05:39

JohnTheGreek

Nice Goat ! ! !

I have always wanted to hunt them down there but the $1500 non-resident tag combined with the long drawing odds have convinced me that if I really want to hunt Ibex, I should just go to Mongolia for the Altai sub-species. I thought about buying one of the "off-range" tags that they sell and camping in the Tres-Hermanas mountains for a summer but then figured it would just be too much of a temptation to cross the highway and take one from the Floridas.

JohnTheGreek

26 September 2002, 19:57

Saad

Thanks GilaMonster [Smile]

12 October 2002, 07:13

<GilaMonster>

quote:
Originally posted by JohnTheGreek:
Nice Goat ! ! !

I have always wanted to hunt them down there but the $1500 non-resident tag combined with the long drawing odds have convinced me that if I really want to hunt Ibex, I should just go to Mongolia for the Altai sub-species. I thought about buying one of the "off-range" tags that they sell and camping in the Tres-Hermanas mountains for a summer but then figured it would just be too much of a temptation to cross the highway and take one from the Floridas.

JohnTheGreek

I've taken a couple off the range, but since the population was reduced to nearly nothing, there hasn't been any Ibex spotted anywhere off the range. To my knowledge, those licenses are only a money-maker for the Game and Fish Department at this point. It is nice to know that if someone actually spotted one off the range, that they could go and buy a license and kill it, but to just buy the license and try to get lucky...it would be a big gamble right now.