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Idaho or Montana
« on: December 01, 2019, 11:07:38 AM »
What are everyone’s thoughts on best units in Idaho and or Montana to apply for? Primarily elk

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Re: Idaho or Montana
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2019, 11:42:06 AM »
You’re probably not going to get many polite responses to this type of question. IMO you’ll be better off asking for opinions on specific units once you have it narrowed down a little bit. Not many guys willing to throw their favorite units out there for everybody to read.

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Re: Idaho or Montana
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2019, 01:01:58 PM »
A quick look at harvest stats will tell you immediately which units ha e the highest success rates. From there, narrow down the area to hunt by topography of your liking and amount of access (roads) you want, and send it. You'll be happy in most places over there.
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Re: Idaho or Montana
« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2019, 01:23:00 PM »
Idaho and Montana are all hunted out, best bet is to stay in Washington  :tup:

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Re: Idaho or Montana
« Reply #4 on: December 05, 2019, 02:06:27 PM »
What are everyone’s thoughts on best units in Idaho and or Montana to apply for? Primarily elk

You may want to post this in the elk section. :dunno:
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Re: Idaho or Montana
« Reply #5 on: December 05, 2019, 02:31:39 PM »
Idaho...Unit 11, Unit 45...there, I said it...everybody is gonna hate me...then again the actual percentage of drawing in those units as a non-resident is as about as good as drawing an Entiat deer tag in Washington...crap, I gave up another "hidden gem"...

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PS. IDFG has a damn good hunt planner tool on their website that also give the true draw odds.
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Re: Idaho or Montana
« Reply #6 on: December 05, 2019, 02:41:50 PM »
Idaho...Unit 11, Unit 45...there, I said it...everybody is gonna hate me...then again the actual percentage of drawing in those units as a non-resident is as about as good as drawing an Entiat deer tag in Washington...crap, I gave up another "hidden gem"...

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PS. IDFG has a damn good hunt planner tool on their website that also give the true draw odds.

 I doubt your going to fill your bull tag in Entiat, draw odds for elk in 45 are not that bad, don’t know about 11.
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Re: Idaho or Montana
« Reply #7 on: December 06, 2019, 08:22:00 AM »
I joined a couple of Facebook Groups concerning Montana hunting and I gather a great season on mature bucks happened around the Missouri Breaks and eastern Montana in general.  All that BLM land was good I would guess.

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Re: Idaho or Montana
« Reply #8 on: December 06, 2019, 09:41:36 AM »
What are everyone’s thoughts on best units in Idaho and or Montana to apply for? Primarily elk

Most the elk migrated to Wyoming to get away from out of state hunters. :chuckle:
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Re: Idaho or Montana
« Reply #9 on: December 06, 2019, 09:52:01 AM »
MT special draw for premium units will leave you with lottery type odds.  It's managed for opportunity so there are surprisingly few really good draw tags compared to other states and the odds reflect it.

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Re: Idaho or Montana
« Reply #10 on: December 06, 2019, 10:50:29 AM »
Cmon guys...  Any elk unit in either state is likely better than Wa!  Bonus is ya wont have to cut the feet off.
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