I live in good whitetail and great elk country in western MT, but still feel duty bound to try to hunt the entire blinking state. I scout whitetail winter and spring and elk in the summer. In five years I've hunted in 5 of 7 regions here. I'll hunt 50+ days in a season if I take too much time filling tags, but last year I only got in 29 days, for 3 antelope, 2 whitetails, and an elk. My favorite whitetail areas are 500 miles from home, and I take a week in November to go there, then hunt weekends around home. In September, I take 16 days off to bowhunt elk. Then, if I can scrape up an extra week of vacation, I'll travel 600 miles to SE MT for antelope in October. I kind of have it made, but I've become a hunting bum, everything else comes second.