“New Mexico is very stringent on nonresident tags.”
I’m a resident, but I was under the impression they just put all the names in, and do an electronic drawing. I live near units 50, 51 and 52, all of them thick with elk, and the game department complains that not enough elk are being taken. If they would make the rifle season early enough to allow calling the bulls up, and draw my name more often, they would have one less elk to worry about each year. I’m happy with cows too, but it is hard to draw a cow hunt in the later seasons, because that is what everyone puts in for. This year, instead of drawing on the names of people who followed the rules and got in before the deadline, they extended the deadline in an effort to get more hunters, and sure enough, one of those late registered hunters beat me out. One of my sons drew a cow hunt though, so I’ll go along, and dress it out for him.