For comparison purposes here are some pictures from a randomly placed trail camera in Arizona. I scouted this unit for the first time. This tag cost me $45 bucks and they sent a coupon for a free box of ammo.
If the non-resident tags sell out why does Idaho Game and Fish offer the unsold non-resident licenses back to the Idaho residents who can buy a second tag? Obviously, there's a surplus of non-resident licenses.
Think long and hard about it. Just returned from the Kaibab Plateau and the elk season is open there. The best part is you have the woods to yourself. There were only a handful of hunters. The difficult truth is that finding one is almost impossible. This summer I have been running trail cameras...
Well there's a reason non-resident licenses never sell out in Idaho. There are at least six better options. For the money I just expected a better experience.
Believe me, I know what you mean about Idaho. It will be a cold day in hell before I return there again. But I read reports like these prior to my trip and went anyway so it was my bad.
The weather is a wild card. Honestly, I would recommend leaving the ATVs at home. And bring chains for the truck. A 4x4 vehicle with chains will get further than the ATVs. Even if no snow it will be freezing on an ATV. After October we pretty much parked the ATVs.
The block management land...
Figured I better back up that story with some photos. We were in the Bear Rvr Zone (75). Tough hunt but much better for elk than deer. We chose this hunt because we lacked bonus points in Arizona.
Calling in a bull will probably be one of the easier aspects of a solo elk hunt. Last season in Idaho we were stomping downhill through tall sagebrush and a bull heard us, bugled at us, and then came running to us! That was in rifle season on October 20th. It was my nephew's first elk hunt and...