RE: Your view on elk
Here inWA you're only choice is to shoot a spike bull. Anything else you have to draw a special permit for.
I JUST got my results yesterday and one more year without being drawn (almost 10 years without being drawn- never been drawn in my life). So, don't bother hunting elk here unless you want to battle big crowds for an 8% chance of shooting a spike.
So, off to Idaho I go, where I'll have a chance to shoot any bull. I'm so pumped! Not sure what choice I'll make but elk meat is so good in any size so I might drop the hammer on the first bull I see... but then again I have 15 days to hunt so I might be selective the first week or so...