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Lucky Third Day

December 4, 2010

September 2010 Generally by the end of September, black bear in New Mexico have located on a food source in which they can store fat and prepare for hybrination.  This may range from prickly pear apples, juniper berries, to acorns.  When black bears find a mast crop in the fall, they usually move less and [...]

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Close Up Bull

December 4, 2010

October 2010 David Thomas of North Carolina took this big bull on the first day of our second rifle elk hunt.  When New Mexico’s elk rut winds down, the big bulls will leave the cows and become solitary or buddy up with other bulls that they’d recently battled with. David’s bull had such a partner [...]

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Wild One

December 3, 2010

March 2010 This female mountain lion was treed after a long jumped race, less than a mile from my house.  She would make circles going over her same tracks.  Several times she would start in a different direction only to turn around and leave in a completely different direction.  This would cause confusion amongst the [...]

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Summer Bears

December 3, 2010

August 2010 Here in southern New Mexico, black bears use a wide variety of habitats throughout the year.  These can range from the mesquite-prickly pear cactus covered desert mountains to the spruce-aspen alpine forests.  Available food sources will determine where bears might be during the year.  They can and will travel long distances in search [...]

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Kebler Holds A Lion

March 9, 2010

February 1, 2010 Chad White of Kansas took this Tom lion with his 357 handgun on the first day of his hunt.  We were fortunate with our catch, since January brought lots of rain and snow to the southwest and hunting was difficult.  I missed some hunting days due to really bad weather during January. [...]

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Last Lion of 2009 First Lion of 2010

January 7, 2010

December 31, 2009 – January 1, 2010 While mountain lion hunting here close to Lake Roberts, I treed this cat the last day of 2009 and then caught him again the next day on January 1, 2010. We’d had a storm come through a couple of days before Christmas and dumped about 6 inches of [...]

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Game Park Christmas Buck

January 7, 2010

December 2009 This dandy mulie was taken a few days before Christmas by Mike Wear.  Mike and his buddy Tony Celia were here in New Mexico for the holidays.   Both Mike and Tony are Warrant Officers in the army.  Mike flies the Apache Helicopter and Tony flies Blackhawks.  They will be deployed before next [...]

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“Honesty” The Best Policy

January 6, 2010

December 2009 Anyone that has hunted very much is bound to have made a mistake while hunting, or at least witnessed one.  In my hunting career, I’ve had 2 clients accidently shoot 2 bull elk.  These were honest mistakes that could have happened to anyone.  In both instances, we packed both animals to the trailhead [...]

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Tom and Female Lion Together

December 28, 2009

March 2009 John Novellino of New York, took this mountain lion on the second morning of his hunt.  We were about 30 minutes from the truck and trailer when the hounds had her treed. We skinned the lion and were headed to the truck when I noticed 2 of my hounds were missing.  I knew [...]

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Julie’s Bear

December 28, 2009

October 2009 Julie and I slipped off for a day bear hunting, before we got busy with our rifle elk hunts.   Our dogs worked the track really fast and had this bear caught in just very short time.   Julie shot this beautiful bear with her 45 Long Colt pistol. We realized after we skinned the bear, that the [...]

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