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1900+ youth elk hunting licenses on sale July 5

1900+ youth elk hunting licenses on sale July 5

By New Mexico Department of Game and Fish

More than 1,900 youth antlerless elk licenses go on sale at 10 a.m. July 5 through the Game and Fish online license system.

The sale, designed to encourage youth hunting, includes almost 1,500 licenses for hunters using any legal weapon and 390 licenses for hunters using a muzzleloader or bow.

Licenses will be sold online only on a first-come, first-served basis. To purchase a license, customers will need to log in to their online license system account.

Youth encouragement licenses will not be sold over the phone.

For the first 14 days, the sale is open only to New Mexico resident youths who have applied in the current license year for one or more draw hunts for deer, elk, antelope, bighorn sheep, oryx or ibex and were not successful for any hunt. The purchase of a leftover draw hunt for deer counts as a successful deer application.

Applicants must have a valid Hunter Education certification and be under 18 years old on the opening day of hunt.

All eligible youths, regardless of residency, who did not draw a 2016-17 elk license, whether they applied or not, can apply July 19 beginning at 10 a.m.

Hunters must have a current junior game hunting or a junior game hunting and fishing license prior to purchasing an elk license. Customers without a game hunting license will be directed to purchase one before continuing to the youth sale.

All purchases will be audited to verify the customer’s eligibility.

Hunters planning to purchase a youth encouragement license must have completed all mandatory 2016-2017 harvest reporting requirements or their purchase will be rejected in the post-sale audit.

The license fee, but not the application fee, will be refunded on rejected purchases. After eligibility is verified, licenses will be awarded to hunters and made available to print and view within a few days of purchase.

Licenses can be printed from any computer by logging in to the hunter’s account and selecting “My Purchases” in the main menu.

The list of available hunts can be found in the 2017-2018 Hunting Rules and Information booklet.

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