nmtaxi
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My off the range oryx hunt starts on Sunday!!! I can't wait to get out there.
For those of you that don't know about the hunt, the G&F issues 40 permits a month, year round to keep the oryx herd from spreading off the White Sands Missile Range. I've heard the missile range hunt described as a "high fence" hunt. I guess if you call 2.2 million acres surrounded by the 3-stand barbed-wire fence "high fenced" then that is what it is.
For this hunt, I'm going to hunt along the fence-line and water holes, and try to catch the oryx going to water. There's not much water on the missile range, so the oryx will come off to drink water on BLM land. There hasn't been any on-the-range hunts in several months, so that's the only thing bringing them off. And with the hunting pressure off-the-range year round, they tend to get their water and go right back. The monsoons aren't helping much, either. But, like everything else, they are creatures of habit, so I'm sure sometime in the next month I'll be at the right place at the right time.
For those of you that don't know about the hunt, the G&F issues 40 permits a month, year round to keep the oryx herd from spreading off the White Sands Missile Range. I've heard the missile range hunt described as a "high fence" hunt. I guess if you call 2.2 million acres surrounded by the 3-stand barbed-wire fence "high fenced" then that is what it is.
For this hunt, I'm going to hunt along the fence-line and water holes, and try to catch the oryx going to water. There's not much water on the missile range, so the oryx will come off to drink water on BLM land. There hasn't been any on-the-range hunts in several months, so that's the only thing bringing them off. And with the hunting pressure off-the-range year round, they tend to get their water and go right back. The monsoons aren't helping much, either. But, like everything else, they are creatures of habit, so I'm sure sometime in the next month I'll be at the right place at the right time.
