So Bosque drew out at 22 points this last year for 3'rd rifle. Is it worth 22 points? That I am not sure. The potential is definitely there. The "King Pin" Bull that was taken off the neighboring ranch was over 400" and was shot just on the other side of the fence of the Bosque. And had been residing at Bosque for the two years previous. If you want the tag, you can pull what I consider a good bull (310"+) out of there, it's going to take a lot of work to dig up just a few bulls each day. Bring friends, helps keep morale high when you aren't seeing very many and the more eyes looking the better. If you're thinking about applying though I may have to agree with IrkedCitizen and would compare what other areas are drawing out at and what caliber bulls are being harvested. Are there any other GMU's out there where you can see a 300" elk each day with potential for 340"
Any given year there can be such a fluctuation. Like this year, it's Thanksgiving and you can still make it to the top of the Spanish Peaks without stepping foot on snow. It has been super warm and dry. Which in turn probably has not pushed a number of bulls down that otherwise would have been on the property.
I was blessed with one of the tags on Bosque this season. During 3rd rifle I saw at least 2) 300" bulls each day and saw 4 bulls on average each day. If you were to talk with my neighbors at camp though, they had multiple days where they didn't see any elk and I believe they were putting in the work out in the field trying to find them and glass them up, not from the truck. Some cow hunters in camp who probably weren't putting forth much off road effort only saw 1 elk during the 5 days we were in there with them. I saw two different herds of cows/bulls on the property during my scouting trips, but saw them only once during 3rd rifle and on the wrong side of the fence. The elk were staying close to the rivers for water, there was a number of guzzlers on the property but while hunting and scouting I did not see much if any sign of elk hitting the ones I crossed. The way we were finding the bigger bulls was getting up on ridges and fingers and glassing into the north and west slopes in the shade finding the bedded bulls, changing our angle and elevations and then looking again and again.
