I had a cow tag this year. I got a cow out of herd of 70 to 80 elk with a number of very nice mature bulls within a mile of the road...as the crow flies. However, the crows wore oxygen tanks as they were 2000' above the road, right out in the open on a wide open ridge. I guess they felt secure up there where no hunter in his right mind would go (which explains how I got one). I'll never know how they let me get within range because I was in plain sight in knee high sagebrush from the road and the whole way up. I shot a cow but I easily could have got a good bull if I'd had a tag. I guess they felt safety in numbers or something as they weren't very wary and never saw me. Even after I shot, a doz cows spent 15 min on a low ridge about 300 yds away watching and barking at me while I worked on the cow.
