I hunt some areas right across the border in MT, and am starting to sniff around in ID with the idea of buying an ID nonresident tag some year soon. I believe, like Brutal Attack, that still hunting is the way to go in that kind of country.

On rubs, just kind of an aside, it seems to me that for years I haven't found the number of rubs that I expected. In recent years I have become aware that bucks do a lot of rubbing on brush. I mean things like ninebark, little stuff, under an inch diameter, that leaves no classic rub blaze. I killed a 140 net buck last year, and I watched him for 30 minutes before the shot. He tore up two sage brush in that time, but no classic "rub trees". The day before I had a nice muley buck inside 20 yards tear up a sage brush right in front of me. (All this was in eastern MT.) This got me to examining little crappy clumps of brush back in my western MT haunts, and now that I'm aware I'm finding that many bucks seem to prefer to thrash a little bush rather than a big tree.