LOH OutfittersSouthern New Mexico
LOH OutfittersSouthern New Mexico
Tips, tactics and stories from the LOH team on hunting New Mexico, from drawing the right tag to the day the bull finally screams back.
Most Barbary hunts fall between December and February, but there is an overlooked October season, and it hunts differently from the winter dates.
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Every draw hunt code splits 84 percent to residents, 10 percent to the outfitter pool and 6 percent to unguided nonresidents. On a small hunt, that math matters.
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Some of the best elk country in New Mexico has no rifle season at all. That restriction is exactly why those units still produce the bulls they do.
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Five days, fixed dates, tied to a unit and a weapon. It catches out-of-state hunters off guard, and it is a big part of why the hunting here stays good.
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The first any-legal-sporting-arm elk season of the year is small, early, and still has enough rut left in it to locate bulls by ear.
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Shooting hours run to a half hour after sunset. That final stretch is some of the most productive time of the day, and most hunters are already walking out.
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Not every oryx hunt is once-in-a-lifetime. Off-range tags run a full calendar month, are not once-in-a-lifetime, and are what most of our clients actually draw.
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An elk will forgive a lot, but not your scent. In southern New Mexico's steep canyons, reading the daily thermals is the single most critical factor in staying undetected.
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Scopes and red dots are prohibited on muzzleloaders for 2026-2027. In units like 13, 15 and 17, where muzzleloader is the gun season, that changes everything.
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New Mexico splits September archery elk into two separate seasons and your license is good for one of them. They are different hunts, at different stages of the rut.
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The waiting is over. Camps are set, hunters are arriving, and the country is finally doing what we have spent all summer talking about.
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The shot is the part hunters rehearse for months. What happens in the two hours afterward is the part that determines whether you take home meat worth…
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Mule deer get less attention than elk in New Mexico, which is both a mistake and an opportunity. The bucks this state produces are genuinely good, the…
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Everyone wants to hunt the rut. Bulls screaming, coming to a call, making mistakes they would never make in October. It is the elk hunting that fills videos…
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Hunters preparing for a western hunt tend to pack for cold. It is what the photographs show: frost on the grass, breath in the air, heavy layers on a ridge…
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Most hunters shoot enough. They just shoot the wrong way.
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July is the month elk season stops being an abstraction. Ninety days is close enough that anything still undone is now a genuine problem, and far enough out…
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Pronghorn hunting does not look difficult from a distance. Open country, animals visible for miles, no timber to lose them in. Then you try to close the gap…
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In open western country, the hunter who sees the most animals usually has the best week. Not the fastest hunter, not the fittest one, and certainly not the…
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Hunters spend a great deal of time choosing a rifle and very little time setting one up. It shows in the field, every single season.
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Barbary sheep are the hunt that humbles people. Not because the animals are unkillable, but because the country they live in asks more of a hunter than…
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Every season we watch the same thing happen. Two hunters draw the same tag, hunt the same country with the same guides, in the same weather, and have…
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Spring is the most honest time of year to look at hunting country. The grass is short, sign from last fall is still readable, and nothing is distorted by…
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Draw results land, your name is on a tag, and the season suddenly feels real. Then most hunters do nothing for two months.
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