Partially Guided and Accommodated Hunts

Public Land Rifle, Bow, and Muzzleloader

These hunts are only offered in Game Management Units 10, 12, 51 and 52 for all weapons types (rifle, muzzleloader and bow). These hunts are designed for those hunters who are looking for a quality hunt, feel confident about hunting elk on their own, want a guide for part of their hunt, but do not want the hassle of having to bring and set up a camp.

These are the answers to the most frequently asked questions about the partially guided hunts:

1. We have one base camp for units 10 and 12 and we have one base camp for units 51 and 52.  This camp is centrally located to access both of the units easily.  We do not provide individual camps for groups.
2. We do not pack people into areas.
3. I do not know how many people are in camp as it is based on the draw.
4. In these camps, Kiowa provides the cook, meals, snacks, water and soft drinks and a person knowledgeable of the area to send you to where we feel you will find elk. We provide tents, cots, pads, shower area, lights and heat, and rest rooms or porta-potties. 
5. The hunter is responsible for the license, personal gear, bedroll, weapon and transportation to and from camp and during your hunt without the guide.
6. This hunt has a higher success rate than the two-day guided only hunts and the reason is simple: on the two-day guided only hunts we are there two days and leave… no assistance, no additional knowledge, nothing else is furnished.  In the partially guided and accommodated hunt you can receive up to date knowledge of where elk are seen or heard about, additional areas to hunt, and assistance with retrieval. While you are hunting, the staff is out scouting for you. This additional information will allow you to move to areas that have recently been seen with elk, giving you the potential for a higher success rate. Unless you are intimately knowledgeable of the area you are hunting and know where to look after two days, you are on your own.

Unit Descriptions:

The units where we offer this service can be described as follows: Unit 51 and Unit 52 are located in North Central New Mexico. Unit 52 is approximately 300,000 acres in size and Unit 51 is approximately 380,000 acres. Both of these units are in a roadless/wilderness area that prohibits off road vehicles and off road traffic of any type. This is a public draw unit and it usually offers a very high opportunity to draw a license with the use of our outfitter number.

Units 10 and 12

These areas consist of National Forest, Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico State trust and private land holding. The area is located south and west of Grants, New Mexico and is on the north end of the Gila range. I consider Unit 10 a sleeper unit. While it has smaller elk numbers, it has a good population of quality elk that has the potential to produce for you the bull of a lifetime. Due to the makeup of the unit, which includes Native American reservations, National monuments, and private land holdings, these areas provide a bull the opportunity to gain age and, consequently, size. We have taken bulls from this unit that are greater than 300 B&C and occasionally one better than 350 B&C.

Unit 12 is predominately private land and checkerboard areas. There are good areas of Bureau of Land Management properties located on East and South sides of the hunt unit. This unit is known for big bulls but the area is checker-boarded and you need to make sure that you know where you are as you hunt. The drawing odds for this unit are difficult.