I can' t give alot of advice about how to hunt the elk, been 3 years and have not got one yet but I did hunt unit 15 in 2001 for archery. I am going back this year for archery. We are mainly going for Mule deer this time we saw bunches of them last time but if we get into the elk we will go to town and get a tag. It is really nice country and we did get into elk after 3 days looking, just couldn' t get one close enough for a bow shot.