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The ones I use are Champion Xray Targets. They show bone structure and vitals. If you set them at 100 yards they are suppose to represent the size of an elk at 200 yards. So if you set them at 200 I would imagine the target size would be close to an elk at 400. It says they are discontinued but I found some here: http://www.luckygunner.com/targets-xray-elk-45904-champion-6-pack

It is a marker for the border wall. About 100 yards away you will find another one on a east to west line. JK. It looks like a geocache since it appears to be cemented to the rock.

That is why RV Techs refer to pop ups as a "lunch box for a bear".

Pros: Easy to tow. Helps on gas milage due to lower profile. Easy to set up. Cons: Look at the tires and suspension to get full size tires. Otherwise ground clearance will be an issue. If the lift system breaks while out you are screwed. Still has canvas likes a tent which can sun rot or mold if put away wet.

This is exactly what I have on XM radio except for the baseball.

With all due respect, if several warrants were served simultaneously, something IS happening. What that is or may be, as of now who knows. It is called a sweep. Where you try to round up as many as possible before the word gets out. Usually done in drug or burglary rings where there is more than one suspect. Usually doesn't take weeks to be known about.

See I would have posted this one.

Here is what I have heard from a friend of my daughters boyfriends cousin, who got it from his uncles grandmother, who had gotten it from her stepsons baby mama, THIS IS A TROLL THREAD AND AIN"T NOTHING HAPPENING. If it was in the paper it would be public record and those who claim to "know" could speak up.

You can still withdraw your NM app and re apply for a rifle or muzzy hunt in October so you don't have a conflict. If you do that you have to pay the application fee again. You only have 5 minutes left to do it but I wouldn't bother since NM is a long shot. If you do draw both states for the same hunt then immediately go buy a power ball ticket.

Carbon Express Mayhem Hunters: going to change to Easton Axis for a 300 spine rather than 340 Somewhere around 450 grains 100 grain Slick Trick Magnums Blazer Vanes About 15% Momentum is more important but I don't know either KE or Momentum for my set up 285-290fps; Hoyt Charger 70# draw weight and 30" draw length

Could be migration during the bad weather?

The game commission designates a quality hunt. Straight from the hunting regs for the 2017-2018 season. Quality Hunt: Quality (Q) Hunt: These hunts are designed to increase opportunities for a successful harvest, achieve harvests from wider selections of mature deer or elk, and/or provide a pleasurable experience based on timing of the hunt and hunter density. Quality hunts are determined by the New Mexico State Game Commission. High Demand Hunt (HD): High-Demand (HD) Hunt: An elk or deer draw hunt with at least 22% nonresident applicants for the previous two license years. ​As far as residents of it doesn't matter on if a hunt is Q or HD or Q/HD we pay the same fees. $60 for a cow elk or $90 for a bull or either sex (ES) licenses.

If you watch Randy Newberg on the youth muzzy elk hunt in NM they killed a bull that had wire wrapped like that around the antlers. I wonder if one popped off first for a while and eventually brought the other one with it.

Interesting that most tags are drawn as a third choice. There is a reason for that. Hope you draw it and get lucky to find some elk there.

Just to update: My credit card was charged, it is no longer pending, so they do take the money up front. Noticed today when I paid the card off.

That is why I use to have a waterproof log on mine that tells people it is not abandoned and who it belonged to visible from the outside. I would also point out the locked chain meant I was coming back for it. So a "reasonable person" would know it was not abandoned. Keeping my fourth amendment right in place. I don't have to worry about it now as I can leave my camera out and you will not know it is there unless you have something to pick up radio frequencies.

Abandonment Leave your vehicle on the side of the highway for a week and come back for it. It will be gone, towed as an abandoned vehicle. Leave it in the impound lot long enough and the towing company will have filed for abandoned title and now own the vehicle. The fact that you do not feel you abandoned it does not mean it has not been legally abandoned. Illegal Search Leaving the camera in the woods is kind of like leaving your backpack in the airport and going home. It is not on your property, in your vehicle, or other personal space, it is not on your person or in your possession. It has been left unattended in a public area and is likely subject to search without a warrant. Trash I ran into a bird watcher on my last elk hunt at a tank. At least 8 cameras, 2 pop up blinds and a tree stand were there. He asked me what was up with all the trash. In the setting of an undeveloped, natural, unoccupied habitat any item left behind by recent human activity could be considered trash. With a quick change of policy, not law, any given land management agency could choose to not allow cameras. They would then have the right to remove any they located as trash. You think that won't happen? While I am not a huge fan of cameras I do own a few and use them occasionally. When I place one on public land I do so knowing it has about the same legal rights as a squatter. If you are aware of an actual federal law that clearly specifies your rights to place a surveillance camera on public lands and prohibits it's removal or search of it's contents please post it. Thief? No, I don't remove other peoples cameras but I can understand that you may have come to that conclusion based on how I worded my previous post Abandonment of a vehicle along side a highway is regulated due to public safety. Besides it will be more than likely gone into Mexico or a chop shop if you leave it more than two days. Leaving a backpack at the airport is another public safety issue and not anything like leaving a game cam in the woods for what it is intended for. The unattended luggage could be a bomb and unless your in KY you probably don't have to worry about a trail camera being a bomb. Pop up blinds and tree stand was it hunting season? I can hunt coyotes 365 days a year. There are regulations and policies about leaving them out in the woods. Some places you have to take them in and out on a daily basis. Once again regulated. I have as much right to have a game camera in the woods as the bird watcher has a right to be there. The forest and BLM are multi use areas, meaning I get to use it as much as the next guy. Too bad if he sees other peoples hobbies as not up to his standards. Besides I build my own cameras now and you would never see one of mine. The game cameras are legal to put up and take pictures of wildlife. Show me a law that it is illegal to do so. Show me the law that allows illegal searching and seizure of my camera that is being used for legal purposes. I am legally enjoying my recreation in the multi use lands we have available. As you stated if you leave a vehicle for more than a week...please show me the time limit on a game camera before it is considered abandoned. As far as policy changes, I addressed there are some areas you can't use cameras, if they change a policy they have to give public notice. Any camera left out after that time period could be construed as abandoned and taken at that time. Show me the law that makes it abandoned now. That is up to the land manager to decide and not G&F. The big loop hole is G&F can dictate how cameras are used for hunting but can't regulate their placement on land they don't manage. So how about complaining to the land manager about the management of the land? Don't have G&F try to make rules they can't enforce. There are cameras out and probably 99% are used for hunting but how do you know? Maybe PETA went up and put 15 of them out to catch hunters. Finding the best times to walk to a tank and pretend to "accidentally" ruin somebodies hunt. Yes I wrongfully called you a thief but you are using the same arguments that others have used to justify their actions in taking cameras. It's litter, It's abandoned ; you left your personal property locked to a tree because you don't want it anymore. I apologize for that. Rant over. I am done on this subject.

Talk about a teaser. Now I will be waiting for the results. Hope you get some.

You mean like NM did this year but ours are only good for five months. Read page 42 of the NM 2017-18 regs.

I'm not looking for any cameras. I am simply pointing out that when you place a camera on public property there is no way it is protected by the 4th amendment. It is protected under the 4th amendment because it is "legally" being used under federal regulations. The state can't limit my federal rights but they can give me more protections than the federal government does. Yes I pay taxes so have a "right" to use public lands. Read my previous post. The other thing I thought of is I would like to see the joint powers agreement between the G&F and Feds. The reason I bring this up is a case in Farmington, NM where a vehicular burglary happened at the post office. Farmington PD showed up and investigated and arrested a suspect. They could not produce the joint powers where Farmington PD had jurisdiction on federal property. Yes the post office is Federal Property. Case dismissed and lawsuit won for false arrest.

According to the US Forest Service I can place trail cameras out, depending on the forest. Wilderness they are not allowed, some forest have regulations against them, 99% of the forest or other federal lands have no regulations except that they can't be screwed to trees. Now prove abandonment. First look up the definition( to leave completely and finally; forsake utterly; desert: Law. to cast away, leave, or desert, as property or a child.) Nothing states I have to check a camera any certain amount of time like trapping does. I am an owner of US Public lands which I can use for my purpose, some of which is regulated and some is not. Camping for X amount of days is regulated and limited. Firewood taking is regulated and limited. Trail cameras are unregulated. So now if a government employee takes my property that is being used "legally" then that is an illegal seizure. They go through the pictures to see what is on them then that is an illegal search. How else they going to prove intent? Now you say somebody is picking up "litter". Once again let's look at the definition of litter ( objects strewn or scattered about; scattered rubbish : a condition of disorder or untidiness:) Trail cameras don't fall under the definition of litter either. Somebody takes my trail camera, that is being a thief. Go ahead and try to keep justifying stealing something.

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This is going to be unenforceable and won't make trail cameras disappear from water holes. The wording leaves a big loophole. I put out trail cams and don't see anything wrong with putting them out. I would say I have never killed an animal I have on trail cam pictures. "Prohibit the use of passive trail cameras for the purpose of taking or aiding in the take of wildlife within one-fourth mile of a developed water source or point water source." For the purpose of taking or aiding in the take of wildlife means they are going to have to have a confession on intent of use. Let's say I put a trail cam out on a water source. G&F hires somebody to go take down any trail cams within 1/4 mile of water. Illegal seizure under the 4th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. My intent was to capture Mexican Grey Wolfs on a trail cam, a species you can't take, thereby not being used for the purpose defined. Maybe I wanted to get bears or cougars, species I don't hunt. Now let's say they drive by and I am checking the camera and they give me a ticket. Number one rule is don't say anything, go to court where they have the burden of proof. They can't prove what the intent was, just a camera was there, case dismissed. Same thing with anybody taking down trail cameras around a water source. It is not illegal to have them out, it is illegal to have them out for the purpose of taking or aid in taking wildlife. So you are still a thief if you take down a trail camera because you don't know what the intent is.

I put in for elk, deer, and my hunting/fishing license and the habitat stamps. As a resident the cost should be $90 elk, $41 deer, $30 license and $9 stamps. My credit card shows $171 pending to NMG&F. I think they will hold it until draw results start to come out and then take the appropriate amount. Maybe when March 22nd hits they will charge my card and then refund in April, no idea. Now as far as elk hunting in Unit 23 I have been there a few times and seen more hunters than elk. Not only do you have the elk hunters, you have the archery deer hunters, archery bear hunters and all the hunters scouting for their upcoming hunts. I was camped one time by a turn off to a little water hole and had 14 different vehicles down that road in one day. It is not my first choice but I have pulled it on my third choice every time I get a tag. For NR to put it as a first choice you have about 10% chance to draw it. This year it is unit 16D as my first choice, much better hunt if I draw it. Edit: Archery is an ES tag so NR's can kill a cow elk with a bow. It is also the only tag I know of where a spike is legal.

Sucks to read this when I put in for and hunt the area around Reserve and it is hard to find them when I have a tag. Let alone these guys. http://www.wildlife.state.nm.us/case-poached-coues-whitetail-deer-solved/