Can’t speak to other states, but in NM, some of the easier units to draw have patches of public scattered with private, throw in unit wide elk authorizations and it can get interesting.
Have found a phone call or knock on the door goes a long ways when we are flirting real close to deeded.
It sucks that the easier to draw tags generally have less public access and a more confusing mosaic of private land puzzles, but it is what it is, and if a guy gets confident in navigating the ownership jungle he can probably get some decent tags quite often.
That's just my optimistic way of saying do what you have to do, to get the opportunity to kill things.
Or to GFY. Leave my Gila elk tag alone.
