Unit 23 is the big southwest-corner unit that runs up against the Arizona line, and the heart of it for most folks is the Big Burro Mountains southwest of Silver City—Gila National Forest country that climbs from rolling desert grass near Lordsburg up to around 8,300 feet on the timbered peaks like Saddle Mountain. It stretches a long way: Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, and a tongue of Catron all touch it, with the Blue Range Wilderness sitting up on the far north end where a few bigger bulls come from. US 180 runs the eastern side from Deming up toward Glenwood, I-10 clips the bottom near Lordsburg, and NM 90 cuts through the middle—but the good country is at the end of dirt forest roads off those, and your cell signal is gone the second you drop into the Burros. This is sleeper Coues deer ground first and foremost; the Burros put out some of the best little whitetail bucks in the state, and that's where the deer tags get hard to draw even though the unit overall flies under the radar. The catch is land status, like everywhere down here. It runs around 60-some percent public—Gila NF up high, a lot of BLM and state sections lower down—but the lower country checkerboards and some of the BLM and state ground is straight-up landlocked behind private, so you cant just point at green on the map and go. Silver City is your real town for fuel, food, and a motel; Lordsburg and Deming work the south end. The dirt turns to grease when a fall storm rolls through, and the Blue Range up north is a genuine haul to reach—no quick in-and-out. What seperates 23 from its neighbors is the mix: you can be glassing open desert basins one morning and still-hunting ponderosa and oak the next, all on a tag that doesnt cost you a decade of points. Just come knowing the Burros draw a crowd of deer hunters who already figured that out.