Painted Sky Ranch

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Welcome To The Broiling Deserts of The Land Of Enchantment,New Mexico! This Rancho was the Backdrop for many Spaghetti Westerns! There’s tons of animals that traverse the blistering hot sands such as,the tough Nilgai and Feral Cattle,or even the exotic Bezoar Ibex,all while Badgers help Coyotes hunt Prairie Dogs! Where as in the Southern Rocky Mountains,Desert Mule Deer and our pride and joy,Massive Rocky Mountain Elk roam the many valleys! There’s so much to explore in these beautiful lands!
New Species
•Feral Cattle-Class 9
•Nilgai-Class 9
•Desert Mule Deer-Class 6
•Aoudad-Class 6
•Bezoar Ibex-Class 4
•Desert Bighorn Sheep-Class 4
•Coues Deer-Class 3
•American Badger-Class 2
•Southern Kit Fox-Class 2
•Ringtail-Class 1
•Striped Skunk-Class 1/2
•Prairie Dog-Class 1

Fowl
•Goulds Turkey-Class 1.5
•White Wing Dove
•Mourning Dove
•Dusky grouse
•Eurasian collared dove
•American Wigeon
•Northern Pintail

Returning species
Plains Bison
Gemsbok
Rocky Mountain Elk
Black Bear
Mountain Lion
Pronghorn
Coyote
Ring Neck Pheasant

Potential/Removed Species
Collard Peccary (Class 3)
•Black-tailed Jackrabbit-Class 1

EW may have to condense the species list,so if I could get some ideas on what to remove….

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The Collard Peccary would be the first to go for me personally. I don't hunt those at all on Rancho. They don't interest me. I would rather have more birds than rabbits. For me you could eliminate the rabbit.

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Bump

[brazen warren]

i like this but i’m confused on if it’s a private game ranch or not because if it isn’t then many of these species aren’t huntable in NM and if it is then i’m not sure all of these species share a habitat

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Could you tell me what species you were thinking,and then I’ll tell you my reasoning/sources.

[brazen warren]

well bison aren’t huntable in nm except in private ranches as well as nilgai and feral cattle also, ibex aoudad and gemsbok don’t all share a range.

so unless you’re going for a larger scale map like i was thinking im not sure how exactly this would work unless it was a private ranch

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So this is a private game ranch,it’s in the name,feral cattle have multiple culling programs across the state,you (the player) have been called to help manage the property of their cattle.

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I only ever hear of professional shooters being contratced to cull those cattle. Of course you got game ranches offering things like Watusi cattle and even a few game ranches offer Spanish Bulls (the ones they use in bull-fighting)

[brazen warren]

all the culling programs in the gila national forest have been through helicopter shooting but the storyline makes sense nonetheless

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I mean,we have first class tickets to where ever we want,I think we are in some way professional shooters,EW should really expand on our characters to avoid confusion such as this.

And here are the coinciding range maps,I wish they show each species ranges all together. The first two orange/white maps are Gemsbok,last one is Aoudad (description)

[brazen warren]

Yeah this demonstrates how if you’re going after free-range exotics they aren’t going to share ranges with each other, oryx are hunted around the white sands missile range in central nm, while ibex are hunted in the florida mountains of south western nm.

aoudad have a relatively larger range but the gemsbok/ibex overlap is the one that doesn’t necessarily happen in real life

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They would,ew condenses many animal range’s,exact locations frequently,EC comes to mind,as well as parque,it’s quite hard to pin point where in Argentina (with the exception of far northern Argentina and Tierra del fuego) parque is because the environment doesn’t look like Argentina.Gemsbok wouldn’t be in the southern Rocky Mountains part of the map to the north,that wouldn’t even take up a quarter of the map.

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That not even a full range map,sadly there isn’t enough data out there for one.

[rotund wyvern]

Argentina is also a huge country, and it would be safe to assume it it is in the southwestern part of the country (Near the Chilean border) based on the presence of Southern Beech Trees (As mentioned in the reserve description)

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Which then again still doesn’t look right,other than the trees,perhaps it’s just the aging graphics/textures.

[rotund wyvern]

The game is over 5 years old