RE: Tag prices, Draws, and hunt costs.
To begin I live in Idaho where it is hard to draw a trophy tag if you rifle hunt. But if you hunt with a bow you can hunt the same area's that difficult to draw with a rifle. As long as a person is willing to hunt with a bow they have their pick of the state's best hunting area's. I mostly bowhunt, I should add that if you hunt with a muzzle loader you get screwed in Idaho because there are few good hunts availble. I also hunt out of state Utah and Wyoming when funds allow. I do not think that out of state prices are too high. As far a how much a hunt cost it depends on the variables. I have friends in Utah and Wyoming so we can help out each other. My friend from Utah came to Idaho two years in a row bowhunting elk with me, other than the out of state tags and gas the cost was the same had he been hunting in his home state. He though he got a heck of a deal because he baged a 4 point bull and a 6 point bull, not bad for a $1000 spent on tags. That is one way to look at it. Thanks