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Last Updated: 05/07/2010

Safari Club International (SCI) New Mexico Big Game Records

***All data on this page were provided by Safari Club International.

 

Desert Bighorn Sheep

 

SCI score
Location
Hunter
Year
1.    190
Hidalgo County
Russ Young
2006
2.    182
Hidalgo County
Brenton L. Scott
2004
3.    160 6/8
San Andreas Mountains
Jon R. Stephens
1978
4.    154 6/8
White Sands
Jack Leeds
1973

 

 

Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep

 

SCI score
Location
Hunter
Year
1.   190 7/8
Pecos Wilderness
Matthew Lilienquist
2003
2.   189 5/8
Wheeler Peak
Thomas Hufnagel
2005
3.   184 4/8
Wheeler Peak
Clint Kuchan
2000
4.   181 7/8
Turkey Creek
Hossein Golabchi
1995
5.   181 6/8
Pecos Wilderness
Ry Tipton
1994
6.   180 5/8
Wheeler Peak
Branko A. Terkovich
2001
7.   179 3/8
Gila Wilderness
Stanford Atwood
1991
8.   177 3/8
Pecos Wilderness
Kevin L. Reid
1994
9.   173 1/8
Mora County
Charles Bazzy
1998
10. 170 5/8
Pecos Wilderness 
Lee R. Anderson Sr.
1994

 

 

American Elk - Typical

 

SCI score
Location
Hunter
Year
1.    437 5/8
Socorro County
Tod Reichert
2008
2.    426 5/8
Datil Mountains
picked up
2000
3.    416 2/8
Socorro County
Bill Clark
2006
4.    413 4/8
Socorro County
Richard E. Westwood Jr.
1998
5.    413 3/8
Gila Wilderness
Mike Andrews
2005
6.    408 5/8
Catron County
Terry Miller
1997
7.    408 1/8
Socorro County
Bruce Heare
1998
8.    402 7/8
Acoma Pueblo
Archie Nesbitt
1997
9.    401 3/8
Catron County
Robert L. Morales
1995
10.  399 1/8
Socorro County
Casey Smith
2002

 

 

American Elk - Nontypical

 

SCI score
Location
Hunter
Year
1.    460 3/8
Acoma Pueblo
Ken French
1997
2.    437 5/8
Colfax County
Lawrence Sanchez
1962
3.    422 7/8
Zuni Mountains
Billy Moye
2007
4.    421
near Winston
Joey L. Lange
1999
5.    413 7/8
Acoma Pueblo
Todd H. King
1998
6.    407 6/8
Catron County
George Flournoy Jr.
1994
7.    400 7/8
GMU 16D
William C. King III
1997
8.    397
Catron County
Craig Cooper
1997
9.    387 4/8
Acoma Pueblo
Ronald F. Mobley
1997
10.  384 7/8
Cibola County
George Rude
1994

 

 

Desert Mule Deer - Typical

 

SCI score
Location
Hunter
Year
1.   207 2/8

Quemado

Gary Stricklin
2005
2.   200

Bear Mountain

Robin W. Bechtel
1988
3.   195 5/8
Chavez County
Billy T. Jones
2000
4.   190 5/8
Rio Arriba County
Joe E. Sikora
2007
5.   187 5/8
Otero County
David B. Coldwell
1978
6.   186 2/8
Lincoln County
Robert A. Dodson
1975
7.   184 3/8
Ruidoso
Lloyd W. Powell Jr.
1974
8.   180 6/8
Lincoln County
Robert A. Dodson
1972
9.   179
S.W.
Warren K. Parker
1999
10.   180 6/8
Corona
Robert A. Dodson
2004

 

 

Desert Mule Deer - Nontypical

 

SCI score
Location
Hunter
Year
1.    239 2/8
Hidalgo County
Dave Donaldson
2008
2.    212 7/8
Farmington
Jarrod Smith
2007
3.    193 2/8
Grant County
John H. Trewern
1997
4.    187 4/8
Lincoln County
Lidi Eberhardt
2001
5.    187 4/8
Animas
Charles "Tink" Jackson
2006

 

 

Rocky Mountain Mule Deer - Typical

 

SCI score
Location
Hunter
Year
1.    214 2/8
Colfax County
Robert Webster
1986
2.    203
Rio Arriba County
Terry Ray Chapman
1986
3.    199 7/8
near Lindrith
Kim D. Wiggins
1998
4.    199 6/8
near Cimarron
Robert Webster
1985
5.    199 4/8
Jicarilla Apache Reservation
Paul H. Casey
1973
6.    199 4/8
Chama
Dr. Ben H. Robson
1992
7.    196 6/8
near Chama
Gary R. Walker
1988
8.    196 6/8
Socorro County
Robert E. Bohn
1998
9.    195 6/8
Rio Arriba County
Ryan J. Turner
1995
10.  195 4/8
San Juan County
Raymond Dean Chapman
1983

 

 

Rocky Mountain Mule Deer - Nontypical

 

SCI score
Location
Hunter
Year
1.    270 2/8
Taos County
John Gisi
2009
2.    228 3/8
San Juan County
Tom Bolack
1971
3.    224 3/8
Catron County
Peeler G. Lacey
1992
4.    223 3/8
Socorro County
Bryan Peeler
1998
5.    213 1/8
Hidalgo County
Robert I. Pennington
2000
6.    211 4/8
Catron County
Cleo Candelaria
1996
7.    210 2/8
Logan
Juan Ramon Zaragoza
1996
8.    199 1/8
San Juan County
Tom Bolack
1970
9.    190 4/8
Jicarilla Apache Reservation
Carlos E. Menendez
1999

 

 

Coues Whitetail - Typical

 

SCI score
Location
Hunter
Year
1.    127 5/8
Hidalgo County
Gary L. Garrison
1995
2.    118 6/8
Sierra County
Ross Johnson
1993
3.    116 7/8
near Silver City
J.P. Jacobsen
1988
4.    114 3/8
Sierra County
Brad R. Barker
1993
5.    110 3/8
Grant County
Joe Piles
2003
6.    109 7/8
Animas Creek
Charles "Tink" Jackson
2008
7.    109 6/8
Gila Wilderness
Donald E. Wenner
2004
8.    108 5/8
Hidalgo County
John Wasson, Jr.
1993
9.    106
Hidalgo County
Robert Muckleroy
2008
10.  101 5/8
Grant County
Toby M. Rascon
2008

 

 

Coues Whitetail - Nontypical

 

SCI score
Location
Hunter
Year
1.    114 7/8
Magdalena
John M. Searles
2001

 

 

Pronghorn

 

SCI score
Location
Hunter
Year
1.     99 7/8
Unit 11
John P. Grimmett
1986
2.     96 2/8
Catron County
Kirk Winward
2003
3.     96 1/8
Lincoln County
Dale Hislop
2003
4.     94 7/8
Mora County
John Pearson
1977
5.     94 5/8
Catron County
Neil Bushong
1998
6.     94 2/8
Catron County
John McQueen
1986
7.     94
Catron County
Raymond R. Mong
1999
8.     93 1/8
Socorro County
Al Thanhauser
2007
8.     93 1/8
Lincoln County
Dr. Paul Wolleman
2007
10.   93
Lincoln County
Foster V. Yancey Jr.
2006

 

 

Black Bear

 

SCI score
Location
Hunter
Year
1.     21 6/16
Catron County
C.J. McElroy
1970
2.     21 3/16
Gila Wilderness
Sam Ray
1983
3.     21 2/16
San Antonio
Terry Deidrick
2005
4.     21
Gila Wilderness
Trey A. Whitley
2003
5.     20 15/16
Grant County
John Wasson, Jr.
1994
6.     20 14/16
Zuni Mts.
Jason John Fank
1994
7.     20 13/16
Grant County
John W. Greer
1988
8.     20 12/16
Gila Wilderness
Gerald L. Warnock
1996
9.     20 11/16
Rio Arriba County
Dick Ray
1975
10.   20 8/16
Sacramento Mountains
Albert N. Bonanno
1989
10.   20 8/16
Sacramento Mountains
Carl O. Griffin
1995
10.   20 8/16
GMU 34
Mike Z. Summers
1997

 

 

Cougar

 

SCI score
Location
Hunter
Year
1.    15 13/16
Rio Arriba County
Robert J. Seeds
2003
2.    15 10/16
Black Mountains
Gary R. Walker
1972
3.    15 8/16
GMU 1 (Navajo Res.)
2000
3.    15 8/16
Mora County
Robert Michael Ortiz
2002
5.    15 6/16
near Cimarron
Marta Sue Burnside
1976
5.    15 6/16
Devil's Canyon
Dick Ray
1985
7.    15 5/16
Dulce
James S. Davis
2009
8.    15 4/16
Jemez Mountains
Lloydean Martin
1992
9.    15 3/16
Socorro County
Edwin E. Finkbeiner
1984
9.    15 3/16
near Cimarron
John Nicolella
1980
9.    15 3/16
Jicarilla Apache Reservation
Rev. A. Bakewell, S.J.
1978

 

 

New Mexico Exotics Records

 

Barbary Sheep

 

SCI score
Location
Hunter
Year
1.    154 2/8
Canadian River canyon
Warren K. Parker
 1988
2.    150 4/8
Quay County
Gerald E. Floeck III
1987
3.    150 1/8
Otero County
Mark E. Wiatt
2005
4.    148 6/8
Guadalupe County
William W. Murrill
2007
5.    147 6/8
Otero County
Foye D. Wells
1995
6.    147 2/8
San Miguel County
Michael Justus
1988
7.    147 1/8
Near Logan, NM
Jose Gonzalez
1987
8.    146 7/8
Quay County
Gerald E. Floeck III
1987
9.    145 6/8
Canadian River canyon
Roger L. Gregg
1979
10.  145 4/8
Pasamonte Ranch
Raymond Wood
1989

 

 

Ibex

 

SCI score
Location
Hunter
Year
1.    135 7/8
  Florida Mountains
Anthony J. Trennel
 1981
2.    121 6/8
Florida Mountains
John F. Lang
1983
3.    120 4/8
Florida Mountains
Justin Garcia
2007
4.    118 3/8
Florida Mountains
Missy Holmes
2004
5.    114 4/8
Florida Mountains
Randy J. Martinez
2005
5.    114 4/8
Florida Mountains
Michael J. Borel
2006
7.    114 2/8
Florida Mountains
Ryan York
2006
8.    113 3/8
Florida Mountains
James A. Blake
2006
9.    112 6/8
Florida Mountains
Jerry Bloom
1991
10.    112 4/8
Florida Mountains
Zachary Hunter Comino
2009

 

 

Oryx

 

SCI score
Location
Hunter
Year
1.    99
 White Sands Missile Range
 Bill Lauer
 2008
2.    98 2/8
 White Sands Missile Range
 Benny James
 2001
3.    98
White Sands Missile Range
Roxanne Rhea
1988
4.    97 7/8
Tularosa Basin
Roy Huffmyer
1988
4.    97 7/8
White Sands Missile Range
Craig M. Lemke
2008
6.    97 4/8
White Sands Missile Range
Bill Kirikos
1997
7.    96 7/8
White Sands Missile Range
Chris Trew
1995
8.    96 5/8
Near WSMR
Brian David White
1997
9.    96 2/8
White Sands Missile Range
Jason Browning
2003
10.    96
White Sands Missile Range
David Starkey
2009

 

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