Stone,
as an Idaho archery education instructor I do know that yes you can still change your tag to any area that you want in Idaho. You can change it up until the first day of an open general hunt. That's not until Aug, so you have some time. Your question can I shoot a cow, that depends on when and where you hunt. In the middle fork you can shoot any elk with any weapon. I don't know that I would back out but, I would instead look at other areas around the middle fork zone. I know this sound crazy but the closer you get to people the more the wolves stay away, and the more elk you'll see. The middle fork zone is all wilderness and overrun with those stupid dogs. If you can't tell by now I really, really hate them. And before people jump all over me for this, think what if your favorite area that was loaded with game and very had few hunters, was ruined by a preditior. I am sure it would make you mad. Now I am not saying that we need to wipe them off the face of the earth, or even of the face of Idaho but we do need to be allowed to control them. Talking to a F&G officer/biologist he told me this last fall. He said that Idaho has roughly 400 wolves roaming from north central Idaho to south Idaho, and that on average they each kill 1.5 elk per week. Well for 400 wolves thats comes to 600 elk per week. 2400 elk per month, and 28,000 elk per year. Ouch!! That hurts, and puts a damper in the elk population. Again I am not saying to kill off all the wolves but we do need to control/manage them. As far as deer go, I honesly don't know. I saw a lot more deer than usual on my wifes elk hunt in unit 51 last Oct. And I shot an ok 4 point (western count) mulie buck. But I saw fewer elk than ever before. I have hunted either the Lemhi Zone or the Salmon zone my entire life. I alway bowhunt too. But this past year I went elk rifle hunting for the first time in a long time in an eastern Idaho unit. In the past this unit has sucks compared to central Idaho but I saw a lot more elk here, than on my wife hunt. And I shot a 5 point bull with a rifle on opening day in Oct. Needles to say, I can't wait for opening day of archery to hunt this unit with my bow, and its a lot closer to my home town to boot.