U can shoot a cow or spike in the late season with a bow. No gen. early archery season. It did have a gen. archery season open for cow or spike for 3 years in a row back in like 2010,11 and 12 or something like that
It was a fun hunt. It was very easy to shoot a cow during that 3 year period. I learned a lot about elk hunting in the 3 years it was open because there were elk every were and that allowed me to study their behaviors and stuff. We had 8 guys in our group and all of us harvested all 3 years even a few of the guys got a cow and it was their 1st time hunting!. So many elk we would go for spikes the 1st 6 or 7 days then cow or spime after that. I hope they open it up again.