I have shot my share of big stinky bulls and now I much prefer a nice tender younger bull or a cow. A rutting bull is absolutely not my favorite meat, but cow elk is. If you have any points to use it is easy to draw a rifle cow tag in some of the best units in the state through the regular draw in Colorado. The draw for reduced price cow tags in Wyoming can be pretty easy without using your points, and some units will even have left-over tags. The rub with the Wyoming tags is that many of the easy draw or left-over licenses options are for units that are mostly private land. If you really want a nice quality public land hunt you might want to look at Colorado cow elk with a rifle. Most cow hunts are rifle hunts. Bow hunting for a cow would be tough, but possible. Pulling a bow tag for a public land bull in a good area is getting to be a tough proposition.