Not this year. Idaho is always our go to archery elk hunt if we don't draw tags any where else. My plate is full this year in Oregon with 3 back to back elk hunts. We switched to Idaho as our archery elk hunt in 2000 from eastern Oregon. I hunted central Idaho twice and saw alot of washington plates myself compared to when we hunted down in southeast Idaho. In one evening drive in southeast Idaho we saw plates from 8 different states.
My best bull came out of Idaho on an otc tag. We connected on two bulls on that trip, definetly a trip for the books, literally. Our two bulls scored within 2 inches of each other and our gutpiles were within 300 yards of each other, killed in consecutive days. I killed mine while he was fighting another bull. Of course the other bull was bigger, but I didn't give a *censored*.
In fact that was the first year you could buy a second tag in Idaho, of course I didn't and the other bull stood there after my bull was dead broadside at 15 yards, roaring his guts out at me. I had to take off my face mask to get him to run off.


We hunted the same area for three years then switched areas and my hunting partner pulled out this bull.

I'll be going back in 09. I'm taking my son for his first out of state bowhunt. Idaho really has their *censored* together as far as promoting youth hunting. Sorry about the grainy pictures they are 35mm scanned and burnt to a disc.