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You really are a blithering idiot, aren't you?

Since you live in Colorado, let's look at the unit where the most bulls are taken in 2nd Rifle - GMU 4
- 280,000 acres
- 134,000 public acres
- 1,635 hunters in 2nd Rifle (nearly all on public land)

Now that means if we spread the hunters perfectly evenly, each one would only be hunting 82 acres and they'd be about 620 yards apart on a grid. But the reality is they're much more concentrated than that because much of the terrain is inaccessible - too steep to stand on, deadfall etc. So in reality even if you spread the hunters out a much as possible, you'd have multiple hunters within rifle shot rage of you at all times. Similarly, any time an elk steps out there will be multiple hunters within rifle range. Now they may not have line of sight depending on terrain, but there ARE that many hunters in the woods.