Hey guys/gal, good luck this week, Will thanks for the update and John and Gary, you guys seem like your right on them!


I talked to a biologist about this a few years back. They shut down our season, for 9 days to let the elk finish up the majority of their breeding unpressured.

Anyweapons season opens for two full months now. Elk, deer, bear, turkey you name it.. CHAOS.. in many areas, and a ton of pressure in the mountainsas gun hunting elk is very big out here.

I can choose any weapon I want to hunt with now until Dec 1

last season I hunted the entire gun season for whitetails with my bow. This season I will most of the time but will take my sons now on a few rifle sits and I am really looking forward to that. Elk I really need to fill the freezer, I will shoot any elk I can with rifle or bow once my seasons open back up for elk. As a matter of fact I may go drop the money for a non res/B-tag to give me more hunting time on elk. We have NO meat in the freezer cept for a bear..

So, I have two whitetail tags for Idaho to fill and 1 elk, possibly one more and my wife is getting elk and deer tags this year too. She wants to do some rifle hunting right around the home. I am stoked about that.

I got out yesterday and checked up on some areas I really need to get to whitetail hunting. I liked what I saw in there for sign.

Come Oct 10th I will have 4 forsure different elk/whitetail areas to hunt all of which are miles apart. I am trying to lesson the pressure I am putting on the two I am hitting now.

Dec 10th-23 are is late season archery again and then I go to ND over Xmas break.

good luck guys..

I am really enjoying your updates and posts in the forums fellas.. some very good reading and strategy talk in there..