Yeah second rifle season is pretty rough with a gun much less a bow.By the 2nd season they know they are being hunted. I have hunted and guided all the CO Elk seasons and the second is the toughest.

If you need to hunt with the bow and it is legal it would be a spot and stalk (the hardest to do) or spot a herd and get ahead of it and get in postion where they might be moving through.