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I'm in, probably won't go down til December though. We have a lot going on this year between Wyoming and Colorado but I'm not missing my Amistad hunts and hoping to keep my streak alive of killing at least 1 critter there, been 7-8 years in a row now I'd have to count but need to keep it rolling.
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Yes it's crowded with hunters no doubt. I've never seen a non-hunter out there though I've seen hunters that don't act like hunters. Lol... of course sometimes guys scouting or whatever. Border Patrol has a pretty good presence but they're usually not running around in the hunt areas unless there's a chase that leads in there I'd imagine, never seen them in there.
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Originally posted by Romulan View PostI’m thinking of trying my hand at Amistad - for those of you that go regularly - is it crowded (hunters and/or non hunters)? How’s the situation with border control?
I have been out there and had guys on mountain bikes, riding all over the place. You never know what you are going to run into out there. I found a couple digging up Spanish Daggers one year. Did not think anything of it, till a park ranger asked if I had seen anyone digging up plants. Turns out that is a big no no.
As of the last time I was out there crossbows were not legal. But I found two guys across the road from a hunt area, in a area that is not open to hunting but part of Amistad. I think it's a rest area or for picnics. But there were two guys over there with a cross bow chasing and shooting at something down the side of the hill. I did not go across the road to ask what they were doing. I was hoping they were shooting goats. During that time, some local turned about 70 goats loose out there to le them graze. Multiple of us, kept talking about shooting goats. I think the park rangers were looking for the guy who turned them loose out there also.
As for people coming across the border, into a hunt area, it's not common, they don't cross much in that area. I know when I used to camp in the camp grounds out there. There was almost always a Border Patrol agent, that would go and hide back down one of the roads and watch the camp grounds. So I did not worry, that and I had my 10 mm. I got pretty dang cold in those camp grounds a few nights. It was just me the jack rabbits, deer and the border patrol agent, the border patrol agent was the only one warm, he stayed in his car with the engine running.
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