Guaranteed Bull Elk Hunt

This hunt occurs out of Durango, Colorado. This is a high fence hunt and you are guaranteed to kill a bull elk. The size of the elk range from 6x6 280 B&C plus bulls to bulls over 400 B&C. It is your choice on the size of the bull that you want to hunt and harvest.

The costs of these hunts is very reasonable and is great for the person that wants to insure taking home the bull elk of a lifetime. You may hunt with any weapon of your choice, bow, muzzleloader or rifle.

Cost of the hunt includes any licenses and paperwork, courtesy transportation during the hunt, and trophy preparation of the animal.

Private Land Hunt #1 - Rifle

This hunt occurs on private ranches near Raton, New Mexico. These ranches have the potential to produce 300 B&C class bulls for the hunters. The cost of the hunt includes meals, guide, courtesy transportation during the hunt, and trophy preparation of the animal. The hunter is responsible for their personal gear, weapon, transportation to Raton, New Mexico, and license ($550.00 across the counter). Because we are always looking at additional ranches, acquiring new ranches, and negotiating different leases, the price of the hunts may be different than advertised.

Rifle hunts begin in early October to take advantage of the rut and the bugling of the bulls. We monitor elk on the ranch and if there are no elk, your hunt will be moved or changed to the next year. You will be hunting where we know there are elk. We have never, not put anyone on bulls during our tenure on these ranches. We have always presented opportunities to harvest bull elk.

Private Hunt #2 - Rifle / Bow

Brilliant Canyon Ranch is located ten miles west of Raton, New Mexico. Our privately owned ranch is surrounded by 600,000+ acres of private land, commonly known as Vermejo Park Ranch, which has absolutely no public access. The property is home to a large number of resident Elk, Deer, Bear, and Turkey. The opportunity to harvest a large, Pope & Young or Boone & Crockett trophy bull elk, deer, or bear is excellent. Elk licenses are guaranteed via private land permits. Other licenses are available over the counter. Catch and release fishing for rainbow trout in the 20-inch class is also available to clients. Lodging and Meals are provided at the ranch. No more than six hunters will be permitted during any given hunting period, normally four at a time. Clients will have their own bedroom, with friends sometimes sharing a room, in a large home on the ranch. The home is nicely furnished with a hot running shower and bathtub, large kitchen and large living room areas. Satellite television and telephone service are also available. Hot breakfasts, lunches, and dinners will be provided each day. Snacks are available at all times. Safety and comfort for each one of our hunters is of the highest concern. Both archery and rifle hunts are available for all big game species. Combination hunts are available for elk, deer and bear during the archery season in September. Combo hunts for elk and bear are available during the rifle seasons in October. Combination hunts offer the opportunity to harvest other trophy species during a hunt by paying a trophy fee only if another species is harvested.

Private Land Cow Elk Hunt

These hunts occur on one of the largest ranches in Northeastern, New Mexico, Vermejo Park Ranch, 600,000 acres of totally private land. This ranch holds one of the largest elk herds in the state of New Mexico, usually counting around 13,000 animals during the winter surveys. The cost of this hunt includes guide, courtesy transportation during the hunt. The hunter is responsible for their motel, meals, personal gear, weapon, and license. We have run a 100% hunter success for the last eight years, harvesting 386 elk for 386 hunters.
Harvested cows are transported to Raton to the meat processor for skinning and processing. It is the hunter’s responsibility to handle the arrangements and charges with the processor.

Carson National Forest Unit 51 & 52

Kiowa hunts in Game Management Unit 52, located in North Central New Mexico. This unit is approximately 300,000 acres in size and is a roadless/wilderness area that prohibits off road vehicles and off road traffic of any type. The area does have numerous open roads within the unit, often two to three miles apart, which allows the hunter access to areas to hunt by foot or horseback. This unit has an excellent elk population and the number of hunters is controlled, as opposed to most of Colorado’s public land units. The odds of drawing a license are excellent with the outfitter number. We have been 100% successful on our guided rifle hunts for two years and have had a 77% success rate on all rifle hunters for two years. Bow elk hunts can be combined with a bow deer hunt also, at no additional hunting fee.

Unit 51 is approximately 380,000 acres (594 square miles). This unit is not a roadless unit and the use of four wheelers is allowed on any designated road. The nearest town is Tres Piedres, NM at the northeast corner of the unit. This unit allows the use of ATV’s on all roads and for retrieval of your game.

We offer two types of hunts in these units:
Guided: These hunts include the use of the outfitter number for drawing a license, the appropriate number of guides, accommodations, meals, courtesy transportation during the hunt, retrieval of game and trophy preparation of the animal. The hunter is responsible for putting in for the license, with our help, his/her personal gear, and weapon, and transportation to and from camp.

Self-guided: These hunts are for those hunters that want a quality hunt, feel confident about hunting elk on their own, and do not want a guide and the hassle of bringing a camp with them. The self-guided hunts include the use of the outfitter number for drawing a license, a person in camp with maps knowledgeable of the area to direct the hunter to good areas, accommodations, meals, retrieval of game and trophy preparation of the animal. The hunter is responsible for putting in for the license with our help, his/her personal gear, weapon, and all personal transportation.

These hunts can be combined with a bow deer hunt also.

Sargent Wildlife Area

This area is located near Chama, New Mexico. The Wildlife Area is approximately 20,000 acres in size. It is managed for trophy class elk of 300 B&C or better. This hunt requires good physical condition and a positive hunting attitude. Individuals applying for this unit need to be physically able to ride horses and to walk up to six miles per day. To get to the hunting areas you will be riding for up to two hours each morning in the dark and possibly leading the horse out with your elk. Permits on this wildlife area are limited and no more than two nonresident hunters will be drawn for each hunt.

Lincoln National Forest Units 36 & 37

We are offering bow, muzzleloader and rifle hunts in these units again this year. We tested it out for several years with friends and had great hunts with excellent bulls. These units are known for big bulls and excellent numbers of elk. The individuals that I have assisting me in these areas are very knowledgeable of the units, good bow hunters, and have the history of getting clients on big bulls. This area is excellent. We are only offering guided hunts in these units. The draw is difficult but worth putting in for as a choice, all of these hunts are High Demand hunts.

The cost of the hunt includes accommodations, meals, courtesy transportation during the hunt, retrieval of the harvested animal, and caping of the animal.

The hunter is responsible for arriving in camp, personal gear, weapon, license and stamps, gratuities, and care for the animal after it arrives in camp.

Valle Vidal

The Valle Vidal unit of the Carson National Forest is one of the premier trophy elk areas in the United States. Created in 1980, it has been continually managed for quality elk hunting. The only way to hunt this once in a lifetime area is by drawing a license. Due to the demand for the licenses in this area the odds of drawing are small.

The cost of the hunt includes accommodations, meals, appropriate number of guides, retrieval of game, and trophy preparation of the animal. The hunter is responsible for putting in for the license with our help, his/her personal gear, weapon, and transportation to and from camp.

New Mexico Bow Elk & Deer

We are offering six different bow hunts for elk this year. Four of these hunts can be combined with deer permits for a combination hunt.

The areas that we are hunting are:

Carson National Forest

Game Management Units 51 and 52
Valle Vidal Portion of the Carson National Forest

Lincoln National Forest

Game Management Units 36 and 37

Sargent Wildlife Management Area

Game Management Unit 4