My pastor told me about a ranch in the Davis mountains where he went and shot a small elk. He said they charge a straight 1200 bucks. He didn't say, but I assume it's a large high fence ranch. Ranches out there tend to be best measured in square miles rather than acres....or "sections".
I might pursue this. I don't want tame elk, but if the ranch is big enough, they might be somewhat wild. But, I've always wanted to hunt elk. I bought my 7 mag back in the early 90s because I thought I was going to get a chance to go to New Mexico south of Cloudcroft to do a self guided hunt. But, I never did that and now days it's all about drawing a tag, no more just driving out there and buying a license and the license for out of staters has gone up, to boot. So, this might be an economical way I could hunt elk, all guided, and they provide sleeping accommodations hopefully for the wife and I both.
Even if I could do a self guided hunt with friends, at 66 years old, I'd rather have the quartering and moving done by the outfitter which my pastor says they do. I'm milling it all over, need to get a web address or something from him to check it out. His wife used to do IT work and set up and maintained this ranch's site how I understand it. He said they also have Nilgai for $1800. Nilgai are large and as I understand it, quite tasty.
