Thanks again, guys... It's funny; with whitetails, I've gained enough experience and wisdom to learn how to position myself for opportunities at the big boys, and there has to be a corresponding amount of discipline involved with that (meaning letting immature deer walk).

My wife has made it clear that she wants elk meat, and I better shoot the first legal thing I see! And I kind of agree with her; unless I see some monarch trailing behind in the distance of his herd, I'm basically taking the "if it's legal, it's getting a Muzzy zipped through its lungs" approach on this, my first, trip. I'd be ecstatic just to come home with a few hundred pounds of elk meat. I don't want to wrap my tag around a calf, but other than that...