RE: Elk Rifle "Hunters"/Spider Bull
Dopler, it isn't quite as easy as you paint it to be. As EKM mentioned, Colorado estimates a 20% or so success rate, which probably is only for their general hunts. No matter, it is certainly not as easy as you are trying to state.It does look like they got this bull out in rolling open country, and Monroe has a good amount of that country up on top. It also has many tens of thousands of acres of steeper country that is nearly all solid timber. It is not as easy to hunt as someone might think, just from looking at the picture where they eventually killed this bull. A lot of the unit is very thick timber, and a lot of it is very steep country. Just like most other places that elk habitate.
Have you done a lot of elk hunting yourself? Or are you basing your comments on impressions you have of what it must be like? I'm just curious how you've come to your beliefs.