This is where I am kind of caught up, because I feel like I do have a pretty good chance of killing something if I go back to the same area I was in Colorado, but it will probably be a raghorn. We saw one smaller 6x6 on private land last year, but all bulls we saw on public were young. The reason I am leaning towards Montana is that I feel like there’s a higher chance of finding a mature bull, but also realize I would be going in blind so may take several days to start to figure out and area and have the possibility of not finding an elk at all. I do have 8 points in Wyoming currently, so I am planning on going to a good unit in a few years there. Whether I go with an outfitter or not yet then I am not sure, but I have always enjoyed being able to do it myself and have killed several nice whitetails over the past years solo. Obviously not expecting to go in and kill a 320+ inch bull on public, but is it realistic to have an opportunity to kill a mature bull in a general or low point entry unit? Or am I better off just going in a killing the first legal animal I have an opportunity and using that knowledge to be more successful in better units later down the road?
