If you're able to draw a rut hunt, general season elk hunting rules won't apply. Herd bulls won't run far. They will return to their harems. My guide and I chased a huge bull for miles. He never went far from where we first spotted him. We chased him for miles over I have no clue how many ridges. He merely circled over ridges until I was finally able to kill him. He was a bull of a lifetime.
BTW, that unit produces 400+ bulls every year. But getting a tag for unit will take many years.
We heard bulls bugling right near our camp. When bulls are in rut, they have a one-track mind.
