NM 16B Drop Camp/Packers

[Jdeck09]

A family member of mine was fortunate enough to draw a 16B archery tag. Do y'all have any recommendations for drop camps or packers? I messaged a few of them from another thread last year but see if any others popped up.

Thanks yall

 

[Snpr700]

Pm me. I have a guy that may be able to help.

 

[Jdeck09]

Can do! Thank you

 

[wjohnson1983]

Does anyone have experience with Mick Chapel from New Mexico Professional Big Game Hunting Inc. and review of his operation for guided hunts?

 

[Djacker]

San Francisco River Outfitters is well established in that area. They shoot nice bulls every year. My dad archery hunted with them a few years ago. Shot a nice 6pt first morning.

 

[svivian]

Does anyone have experience with Mick Chapel from New Mexico Professional Big Game Hunting Inc. and review of his operation for guided hunts?

Pm if you would like. My buddy used them last year for his first rifle elk tag….

 

[Dwnw/theAltitudesickness]

There is a couple other post on here somewhere about 16b packers... see if you can dig them up- U-trails Jim Mater is who I would go with https://utrail.com/about/

 

[Jdeck09]

There is a couple other post on here somewhere about 16b packers... see if you can dig them up- U-trails Jim Mater is who I would go with https://utrail.com/about/

Excellent! I'll go through that thread as well. Thanks for the suggestion

 

[trophyhill]

I would make sure whoever you get takes you in far enough. Last year, some acquaintances of a friend did a drop camp and were in that zone where some guys hiked in to camp and hunt, and others who were walking in from their truck camps 3-5 miles and hunting. If I’m doing a drop camp in the Gila, I don’t want to see another soul in there anywhere. I want to see the turkeys, the deer, the bears, the mountain lions and wolves, and an elk on the ground. No people! That’s the goal of a drop camp right? No people?

 

[Jdeck09]

I would make sure whoever you get takes you in far enough. Last year, some acquaintances of a friend did a drop camp and were in that zone where some guys hiked in to camp and hunt, and others who were walking in from their truck camps 3-5 miles and hunting. If I’m doing a drop camp in the Gila, I don’t want to see another soul in there anywhere. I want to see the turkeys, the deer, the bears, the mountain lions and wolves, and an elk on the ground. No people! That’s the goal of a drop camp right? No people?

That's a great point. Thanks for the tip

 

[RS_Non-Res]

Knew a guy that used to be perfectly willing to show everybody where he hunted because it was so far back in the wilderness that nobody ever had enough backbone to get there. Took him a few days to get there on with horses. It's burned a few times since then and he's a bit more discrete now.

 

[Gbfan]

I had contacted SFRO a few years ago. FWIW, at that time they told me they no longer do drop camps in the wilderness, fully guided only.

 

[Dwnw/theAltitudesickness]

Remember the name of another guy- on Facebook his name is "canyon legends". Might only do guided tho

 

[Jdeck09]

Remember the name of another guy- on Facebook his name is "canyon legends". Might only do guided tho

I did find his Facebook. He is the only one I haven't reached out to at this point.

Thanks for the tip!