Aren't RFW hunts for residents only? Are they residents?
They could have been paying clients on that ranch.The entire RFW program is based on the ranch giving out a few ( very few) tags to residents in return for the CPW giving them basically an extended hunting season. Only the participants who draw tag for a RFW hunt are required to be residents
Saddlesore is right. Some ranches do have more than a few public licenses. It depends on how many licenses they get from the CPW (private hunters), the size of the ranch, the size of the elk herd, and how much management the herd needs. Typically many more cow licenses and very few bull licenses.