Yeah... I can't even imagine hunting elk in that territory.
To put it in perspective, maybe, I sold a nice Springfield M1a that I wasn't shooting, this fall. I ended up with $1075 in "monopoly money" at the gun shop (Or about $850 on a cashout). Anyway, I used $600 of it to buy a fairly nice Leupold spotting scope... which I never even USED, not once, on the elk hunt that came up a few weeks later. There was just never any reason to get the damn thing out, and I wanted to!
Anyway, I do think that the terrain a person mostly hunts in has a large bearing on this discussion, as Dober mentioned and as others have mentioned... as a trend, at least, not a 100% indicator.
