elkhunter505
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- Jul 4, 2018
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Just for some context. Based on the harvest report from 2023-2024, 61% of overall pronghorn tags in NM were given through private OTC sales. Here is a breakdown by each unit, and overall.They should end those otc antelope tags immediately and go back to managing the numbers, if pay double to see it go back to a plus..
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Before people use this as an argument to remove those tags and place them in the public draw, consider the cost of doing that and paying LOs in those units that are mostly private for access. I don’t have much of an opinion either way because I see the cost of removing them from the private side being detrimental to the departments overall budget and I see the gain for public hunters and their ability to hunt pronghorn in NM. If you guys are wanting to have those tags back and be able to access private land, I think you’re going to have to be willing to pay for it in some way with some type of private land access fund that is funded through the legislature or paying into that type of fund when you apply whether that be required or voluntary.