Congrats on a beautiful bull. I’m sorry to hear about the meat and hope you are at least able to salvage some.
Good on you for giving it all the way and grid searching too. Way too many just give up.
They are still in court over it. My guess is you won’t see anything new come out from Corey (if he goes that route ;) ) until after the lawsuit.
We are gonna push and beg him to go that route though. :)
You don’t have to tell me the unit, but lots of NM units have good densities and as Cohunter mentioned, you might not need to get off the road that far.
I’ve killed elk 300 yards off the road in NM and 3 miles deep in NM.