What’s missed by a lot of guys like Newberg is, they have the schedule and money to flood draws for themselves and staff so they are almost guaranteed tags. A lot of people don’t have the resources to flood Western states draws to “guarantee” themselves tags every year.
In 3 years, NM has added ~100,000 applicants to the pool. At some point, people have to see they are not creating more opportunity but actually decreasing the likelihood of opportunity. He and many use the crutch that the answer is more hunters/money equates to a “bigger pie” due to revenue and conservation. In an arid state such as NM, the logic doesn’t work. Throw in the LO conflict and things start getting even messier. The landscape doesn’t always support the “bigger pie”.
