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NM Late Season Archery Elk Licenses

NM Late Season Archery Elk Licenses

By New Mexico Department of Game and Fish

On a first come, first served basis, New Mexico will put 275 trophy bull elk archery hunting licenses on sale Oct. 28 on the state Department of Game and Fish website at www.wildlife.state.nm.us.

The sale begins at 10 a.m., and is open only to New Mexico residents for the first 24 hours. Remaining licenses will be available to nonresidents Oct. 29 beginning at 10 a.m.

Only hunters who did not hold a 2015-2016 elk license are eligible to purchase the late-season licenses. The bag limit for the late-season hunts is one bull elk with antlers that have at least six points on one side.

Hunters are strongly advised to obtain an online customer account or review their existing account, user name and password well before the sale begins. The sale is online-only, first-come, and first-served; typically, hunts sell out quickly.

Available licenses include:  Archery hunts, trophy bull elk (six-point antlers or more on one side), Unit 12: Nov. 21-25, 25 licenses; Unit 34: Dec. 19-23, 200 licenses; and Unit 37: Dec, 5-9, 50 licenses.

Special restrictions apply to elk harvested in unit 34. Please see page 79 of the New Mexico 2015-16 hunting rules and information booklet at www.wildlife.state.nm.us.

The Department makes late-season elk licenses available as biologists continue to assess annual population and harvest information, regional herd management objectives and additional harvest needs.

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