H&A Outfitters - New Mexico Hunting Blog

March 06, 2024 by Andy Salgado

New Mexico big game tags are some of the most sought after in the Western states and for good reason. Hunting big game in New Mexico is some of the best hunting you will ever experience.

February 01, 2022 by Andy Salgado

Our 2021 hunting season was nothing less than what you would expect it to be! Our guests experienced much success and a great outdoor hunting experience while hunting the mountains and high desert and prairies throughout New Mexico with H&A Outfitters and our professional guides.

January 03, 2021 by Andy Salgado

Well what can we say about 2020 other than most definitely a year to remember and hopefully learn from it. The one thing we all still have for now anyway, is the ability to escape the craziness of the world and go to the great outdoors and forget about all the negative shit going on in the country.

The 2020 hunting season left as fast as it arrived. Once again H&A Outfitters, Inc. and our guests achieved a great outdoor hunting experience with much success. As always, August brings us to the Shugart Ranch hunting pronghorn antelope. And like always, it was 100% harvest on seven mature pronghorn bucks. Shortly after pronghorn season was over, we had the privilege to guide a Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep hunter in the Pecos Wilderness on the second Ram hunt. Dr. Gary Ross was our guest and he experienced a true wilderness hunt of a lifetime and took a very respectable trophy on his hunt. Congrats to him!

January 27, 2020 by Andy Salgado

Our 2019 season started off strong and held steady throughout the season.  In the  month of August we guided seven pronghorn hunters on the Shugart Ranch and harvested seven good pronghorn bucks – 100% successful.  

February 02, 2018 by Andy Salgado

Well the 2017 hunting season is in the books! You can hunt some of the best elk spots on the planet and there are a few things that can affect the outcome, but there is one thing we cannot control and that is Mother Nature! So anyway, it seems to me that the bulls started rutting in mid-August and, for the most part, it was over by October, which made rifle and muzzle loader hunts somewhat difficult. The total number of elk hunters we had at our camps was 36 and we harvested 22 bulls. 14 elk hunters did not harvest.  4 of the 14 missed, 8 of them turned down bulls they would have been very happy to kill on the last day and then 2 of them wounded bulls and one of the bulls was never recovered.

February 07, 2017 by Andy Salgado

The 2016 New Mexico season was another successful season of hunting for H&A Outfitters, Inc. and our clients! H&A Outfitters, Inc. is holding steady presenting realistic opportunities for our clients on trophy class bulls and other big game trophies here in New Mexico.

January 18, 2016 by Andy Salgado

The 2015 New Mexico season was another successful season of hunting for H&A Outfitters, Inc. and our clients!

December 24, 2014 by Andy Salgado

Well another year in the books! 2014 was another solid year of New Mexico elk hunting with H&A Outfitters, Inc. The total count of bull elk hunters H&A Outfitters, Inc. had the privilege of guiding this past season was 40.

December 19, 2013 by Andy Salgado

2013 Elk Hunts and Season Review. H&A Outfitters, Inc. just conducted our last New Mexico bull elk hunt of the season and once again for the 5th year in a row this late season bull elk hunt was 100% + shooting opportunity!

October 01, 2013 by Andy Salgado

We won’t forget 2013, the year of the 1,000 year floods!

May 31, 2013 by Andy Salgado

The annual New Mexico state big game draw has come and gone.

February 10, 2013 by Andy Salgado

Now booking 2013 New Mexico hunts. Application deadline is March 20th.

January 01, 2013 by Andy Salgado

Happy New Years everyone! The 2013-2014 regulations are posted on the New Mexico Game and Fish website. Now it’s official. The new deadline to apply for New Mexico big Game hunts is March 20th.

December 09, 2012 by Andy Salgado

Today is December 9th I can’t believe how time flies! Before we know it, H&A Outfitters, Inc. will be applying hunters for the 2013 season.

November 01, 2012 by Andy Salgado

Well, what can I say? October was an awesome month for elk hunting in New Mexico! H&A Outfitters, Inc. and our clients had another exceptional month of elk hunting.

October 31, 2012 by Andy Salgado

Ray Bunney and Jim Burnworth of Western Extreme reporting from New Mexico on their 2012 elk hunt in New Mexico with H&A Outfitters, Inc.

September 27, 2012 by Andy Salgado

H&A Outfitters, Inc. just finished up with our 2012 New Mexico archery elk hunts and I must say the horn growth on bulls this year is incredible!

July 09, 2012 by Andy Salgado

New Mexico Game and Fish Department has made some significant changes to the New Mexico mountain lion hunting seasons. It went from Oct. 1st through March 31st one bag limit to year-round and a two bag limit. This is good news for the hunters and bad news for the lions!

July 08, 2012 by Andy Salgado

Now it's time to start scouting for the upcoming 2012 New Mexico big game hunting season that is coming upon us fast. I can’t believe it’s already that time of year!

July 03, 2012 by Andy Salgado

New Mexico shed hunting this past March was one of the best so far. Me and my son, Drew, and a couple of good friends/guides, Tom Holder & Greg Tapia, picked up over 70 elk sheds. 90% of them were brown and several were matching sets.

May 24, 2012 by Andy Salgado

Hunts Still Available for 2012 For those of you who didn’t draw a tag and might want to utilize the option of a landowner permit, please give me a call.

May 06, 2012 by Andy Salgado

NM Game and Fish Dept. has completed their annual big game draw. H&A Outfitters was notified on May 4th via e-mail of a list of our successful clients.

March 12, 2012 by Andy Salgado

H & A is going to have extra landowner permits after the state draw on May 9th for units throughout the state. Either we have them or can get them. Call us if you were unsuccessful in drawing a New Mexico elk tag at 505-474-6959 (home office). HUNT NEW MEXICO.

March 05, 2012 by Andy Salgado

2012 New Mexico Game and Fish new rules. In 2011, the State Legislature made changes that impact all residents and nonresidents who hunt in New Mexico.

March 02, 2012 by Andy Salgado

H&A Outfitters has acquired a new mule deer hunting lease. This ranch is approximately 16,000 acres of deeded land.

February 06, 2012 by Andy Salgado

March 28th Application Deadline

July 12, 2011 by Andy Salgado

Over the years New Mexico landowner permits have sky rocketed in price. I can remember the days when Unit 15 was divided into A and B and you could pick up a landowner tag from $800 - $1,200. Today they're anywhere from $4,000 - $5,000 and seem to be going up every year.