McCall Zone Idaho

[idahohikker]

I'll just come right out and say what I'm thinking. Why do the success rates suck so bad? Around 10-15% in the units, with some years a couple units hovering around 5%. It's lower than most other comparable zones around it, even though the population surveys show a pretty good to good elk population in the zone.

There are quite a few roads. It's pretty close to Boise and McCall. Not that much private property but some. The dates for hunting it are a little tougher since it ends 5-6 days earlier than many other zones. Are there a lot of road hunters? I know that there's some. My guess is a combination of the dates and lazy road hunters.

I'm not planning on hunting it anytime soon but it's closeby and I've wondered.

 

[KurtR]

lots Of country and it is really rough is my experience the last two years. Finally at year three I feel we might have a little something figured out and hope to kill this year

 

[Scoony]

If its anything like the Salmon and Sawtooth zone, there is lots of rough terrain and a lot of the hunters are running up and down the roads on ATVs. Only time I saw other hunters away from the road was a pair on horse back one day. Brothers saw a bike rider way back on another day. There is a lot of ground not being hunted.

 

[Graves14]

I drove from Boise to McCall today and there’s a bunch of ground that either just burned, or is burning. Thousands of acres.

 

[Joe Schmo]

You saw flames?

 

[Tjwjr89]

Hunted there 2 years ago. I'm pretty sure we were the only hunters that backpacked in instead of road camping but it also took us a couple hours just to find an open spot big enough for our tents. Bulls bugling the first morning then the wolves started howling. We heard wolves every morning and every evening and every road we crossed had wolf tracks. That was some of the thickest nastiest timber I've ever hunted. Granted we were seconds and inches a couple of times from killing an elk I don't think I'd hunt that area again.