EHG: Must be some time since I was in Clayton and Springer! I don't recall anyone mentioning whitetails or feral hogs at all. That's really interesting how things have morph'd over in that country.
I hunted elk and mule deer in that general region;and clear from Clayton over to Cimmarron.
I remember a bar in Cimarron with bullet holes in the ceiling....an historic place of some kind where some guys got shot.....that still there?