Of those that get taken, the vast majority seem to be taken in wilderness areas where they are more numerous, or on private land. I suspect they don't have as much experience with hunters either.
That just doesn't seem true to me. Thousands of bulls are killed every year in Montana and loaded whole in the back of a pickup off of public land. Is it easy to find and kill a bull in those easy to access areas, no. But it's a numbers game, and the elk that live in those spots get killed. You're giving them too much credit.
