I have a perfect story for this post. This last season was my wife's first elk hunt in Arizona. We hunted an area which I have been hunting for years and know better than I know the inside of my house. We scouted many times in my little secret spot and I was very pleased with what I saw, her on the otherhand was skeptical on what she was seeing. Opening day she decided that she wanted to hunt more in the pine area, I argued to no avail that there are too many hunters and not enough elk in those areas. However we spent the whole first day bumping into dozens of other hunters close to the road, and several pickups all with hunters cruising the nice smooth forest roads. We didn't see one elk. The next day we went back to my secret area, and we saw both of the herds in the area, the 150 head herd, and the herd with 75 head in it. We both filled our tags off of these herds. She also learned the importance of hunting the back country areas.