Are cows easier to hunt?

[RevJim]

OR, if the herd was hunted hard in the rifle season, the late cows are usually in a dead run when you see them!

 

[Kurts86]

I feel like it’s easier to get good cow elk tags than bull or either sex tags so that throws off the math a bit.

Cows are harder to hunt in September than bulls but easier by November.

 

[WeiserBucks]

If I could get September rifle cow tags I'd go 100% success until I aged out. Those old hags wise up quick once the archery army is deployed and some of them have a decade+ of experience.

 

[Tobe_B]

Had a cow tag in a limited draw trophy unit years ago. Saw nothing but bulls for nine days of second rifle season. Week before in first rifle my dad had a bull tag. All we saw scouting before opener was cows. He shot a toad opening morning. Both hunts in the same valley. Elk are stupid and elk hunting is stupider.


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[repins05]

I am surprised by the responses. I would consider a Cow hunt in my home state (and the three units I hunt) a 99 percent success rate. Hunting on public land.

It is common to pass up cows that are going to be difficult to pack out.

Not writing this post to be arrogant, but I am finding this thread interesting. I do not hunt cows and haven't researched cow hunts in other states.