Don’t think there is an answer to that. With the right 20, you could kill an elk, the wrong 20,000 you could hunt your butt off and not see a thing.
My point to 46 and all units in the special management zone is you run out of options pretty fast ( if they aren’t managed right) unless the outfitter has access to a bunch of properties. It doesn’t take much to blow out a 300 acre ranch. By the time you went, there had been multiple bow and rifle hunts before you. Unless the outfitter has a large contiguous chunk of ground, you’re forced to bounce property to property in hopes they are on one of the secured properties.
I have no idea how many ranches, size or the relation to each of them that the outfitter has secured, or the agreement between the LO’s and himself on hunting activity by others. I can tell you, the NMDGF give a bunch of authorizations for the the area, so you are competing with LO’s/locals hunting as well as hunters brought in by outfitters.
