muley 69, man I feel for ya, been there and done that. In 1997 there were elk everywhere I hunted the entire month of Sept for archery and half of Oct for my friends and wife's elk draw hunt. To make a long story short I wanted a big bull, but I could only shoot a spike or cow during archey season. My wife drew out on a any bull hunt that opened Sept 25 through Oct 14. Oct 15 was opening day of general rifle season spike bull only. Sept was a hot month and I spent the entire archery season calling in big bulls trying to find a big one for my wife. I was seeing 200 plus elk a day and almost every day during the archery hunt I could have filled my tag for a spike or cow. But I was haveing to much fun with the big boys and I thought that shooting a spike with a rifle was guaranteed. Anyway, we killed two bulls during my wife's hunt. One was a really nice one that scored 371. We saw alot of elk during that hunt. There was a big storm that came in somewhere around the 12th, if I remember right. When I came back for the last week of October, to fill my spike tag (for meat), there was not an elk to be found. I searched high and low, in the thickest, nastiest stuff you could find. But it seemed like the elk had just vanished. And I kick myself for passing up all those cows and spikes during archery season. But that's the way it sometimes goes. Hope on your last day, you'll have more success than I did.