New Mexico Winter Hunt

[RainyDayBows]

In the first week of January, three of us from California, headed to New Mexico in search of mule deer.  Our plan was to hunt for five days.  I've been in this area before, but never had a chance to hunt it.  Alan and myself were going to hunt.  Anthony was going to visit some friends in the area.  After we arrived there, we settled in and the next day we got our hunting license.  We were ready to hunt.  As we drove to our hunting area we saw a couple of bucks.  So things were looking good.  We hunted for a couple of days with no luck. On this trip Alan was using a Ventura Custom Bow made by Anthony.  Anthony is also a sponsor.  I used one of my Rainy Day Bows, that drew 49lbs @ 29 with a carbon arrow tipped with a Zwickey Delta that came in at 480 grains.  Last summer they had a fire and most of the vegetation was gone.  We ended up hunting from a ground blind.  On the third day Alan got a nice 4 X 4.  On the fourth day I was in my blind about one hour before sun rise.  Since Alan was done hunting he was about 300 yards from me and he saw a buck about 200 yards from him headed in my way.  He pulled out his camera and took some pictures.  five minutes later the buck came in and my hunt was over.  Someday I hope to hunt the area again.

 
Alan's buck.

 
Buck headed my way

 
The end of my hunt    

[rastaman]

Awesome!  Way to go sir!      

[legends1]

Awesome story and pictures.I have shot with George for years.Any buck he draws on is in trouble .He builds a fine bow too.Congratulations George

[trad_bowhunter1965]

Awesome great story!!!!

[steadman]

Congrats!!  

[David Yukon]

Great! Almost to easy....

[motorhead7963]

were these OTC tags or were they draw tags? I ask because I went to NM a few years back on a rifle hunt and that was the last year for OTC rifle tags. I love the country I hunted in, what part of the state if you dont mind? (just general NSEW etc)Thanks and nice buck!

[don_h]

Thanks for the story, and congrats on the outcome.

[beachbowhunter]

Wow. We have been thinking about doing the NM late archery mulie hunt foe a while. Congrats on the great deer!  Also interested in where you went.

[GRINCH]

Nice Buck,congrats.      

[Jerry Jeffer]

Wow! Nice hunt fellas! Congrats!

[stujay]

Nice buck and congrats.  

[ishoot4thrills]

Nice mulies!

[Izzy]

Very cool hunt. Congrats.

you guys did good!    congratts!

[swp]

     Congrats!

[Tater]

Congrats on a couple of nice Bucks..  

[maineac]

Both beautiful bucks!!  Congrats to both of you.

[LONGSTYKES]

Guys, Congrats on a great hunt. With 2 nice looking bucks. Thanks for the share George.

[RainyDayBows]

Motorhead.. our tags were over the counter for private land in the south-east part of the state. But we did see bucks in the next zone which is public and a draw zone.