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I would like to run a few questions by someone that has hunted in these units archery, ML or 1st rifle time frame. Shoot me a PM or let me know and I will PM you.
 
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Do you have any preference points going into the draw? As a NR you're gonna need a few points to draw these units.
 

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I have a cow tag for 500 2nd rifle backing up my archery hunt. Usually a easy elk, but if I score with my bow I’ll turn it back in. The elk can be anywhere between Kenosha and FairPlay. Watched CPW bust a couple guys for shooting a deer from their truck on some back road. Good bust.

Pretty easy draw for a resident, 50/50 with no points. No idea non resident. Lots of private land , know your boundaries.

First rifle is usually tough up there. Lots of spikes too.
 

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I have hunted them a lot in the past but in resent years the draw has gone from 1 or 2 points to a 4 point unit. The Elk are good in all three units and the biggest elk I have seen in there was about 350+. The people are crazy thick I grade a unit on how may animals I see agents hunters I see and I would say you will see 10 hunters for every elk you see if you get off the road and hick.
 

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We drew with one point. You will see other hunters for sure, but I think there are less than 1k tags available for all the seasons. Seems like there were 160 tags for the last rifle hunt I did in 500.

Never done better than a 5x dink bull when I was bull hunting. Mostly 4x bulls are what we have taken.
Now I’m just happy to put a cow in the freezer.
The moose population seems to be doing really well .
 
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Interesting. When I was there in July I talked to a local that said the elk around his place had pretty much disappeared but now he is seeing quite a few moose.
 
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