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No drawing needed to hunt antelope on private ranches near Tucumcari, New Mexico | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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New Mexico: If you want to hunt trophy antelope but don’t want to spend the money on a guided hunt, consider buying an unguided hunt in New Mexico. We usually have several to choose from. What you're paying for is a landowner permit voucher, which allows you to buy a tag from the state, as well as a trespass permit to hunt the ranch. Prices vary, typically starting at about $1,500 and go higher for the top ranches for trophy-class bucks.
Rick Oubre of Louisiana bought a landowner permit through us for a 13,300-acre ranch in eastern New Mexico. Rick said that his wife Mara enjoyed the trip almost as much as he did. "She got along just great with the rancher's wife," he said. "I missed a giant antelope and still got a great buck. I had four chances, and three of the bucks were bigger than the one I killed. He's still a beautiful trophy with good mass." This part of New Mexico has an antelope hunt every other year. |
Expect to pay $1,500 for landowner permits in 2007, and we can sometimes get the landowner to provide lodging and meals and a guide for an additional $1,000. The season is two days long in September. Rick said he saw bucks rutting heavily during his trip. Four landowner permits were issued in 2003, and three of them were used, all successfully. The landowner permit in some parts of New Mexico authorizes you to hunt one ranch the first day of the season, and if you don't find what you're looking for, you can have a game warden assign your permit to one of the other half dozen ranches that receive unitwide permits. In other areas landowner vouchers are valid only on the ranches for which they're originally issued. If you are interested in a self-guided antelope hunt in New Mexico, let us know in advance so that we can find the best possible tags for the money.
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