john is off chasing elk in Wyoming.  Hopefully he can connect on a bull like Marc from Colorado did with a quick trip to New Mexico.

Despite stirking out after a moonth of Sheep hunting, Marc hit the Mountains of New Mexico with a landowner tag in a unit not known for an abundance of Elk.  Apparently his conditioning from chasing sheep around has made him into an Elk-Slaying machine.   Marc’s story was almost as quick as his hunt!

Got the call for a landowner tag last week. One day up and back, shot this bull opening morning at 7:00 home and back to hunting here in CO by dark. Fast hunt. Saw the bull on a ridge above me one soft cow call and he was at 50 yards in seconds. He took a step at my shot. I hit Liver. Had to leave him for a couple hours, but got him none the less. MMMM Good!
This area does not have many elk so I was just glad to get my meat. I drew a pretty good elk tag here in CO, so it will be more trophy minded. But really to me hunting has always been and will continue to be about the FREEZER!

Jason Amaro is a bowhunter from New Mexico who writes the New Mexico Sportsman  blog.  I’d seen him around at Archerytalk.com, and other places around the web that focus on Western Big Game. But now that I found his blog, I’ve found a Western Comrade in Arms. 

Jason has ANOTHER of his Blogs on Bowcast called Jason’s Everyday Bowcast Blog:

 Jason Amaro has said, “The two most valuable things that we have to give is our love and our knowledge, when you have found an avenue that allows you to combine the two, you have found something special”. With this in mind, Jason has found that helping others find their way in the outdoors has become his “something special”. During his college years he spent his vacations as a guide at prestigious hunting and fishing lodge in northern New Mexico. In addition, he has written for the New Mexico Wildlife Magazine, The NM Fly Fisher and the Silver City Sun News. Currently, he lives in Silver City, NM where he is owner/editor of a blog called The New Mexico Sportsman, a blog that a focuses on hunting and fishing in New Mexico and the Southwest. Other than that, he is pretty much an archery geek.

So check out Jason’s literary talents and tell him that the Western Wanderer sent you.  I think you will see the common love for Western style hunting is evident, as I’ve found with my other Western blogger buddies. 

Looks like Yogi came into town in New Mexico and got more than he bargained for. 

After a week of searching, a black bear that had been roaming Los Ranchos was finally caught after a 30-foot fall….

Once the bear decided to climb high up a tree, the question for wildlife officers was how to get the bear down from its 30-foot perch.

 

They shot the bear with a tranquilizer and waited for it to fall asleep and then land on an airbag on the ground. Officials had to carefully estimate where and how the bear would fall in order to place the airbag to avoid injury to the animal.

Check out the complete News Story and Video