Salty,
Have you been seeing many elk in the observatory hunt area. Last year was such a bust for me I switched over to the Nanum unit and will try to pull one of the 8 tags once in my life. Didn't get one this year but with as manyelk as I was seeing I think I might actually have a decent shot at a spike. Pretty disgusting odds if you look at it on the whole. Even if you draw one of the achery tags like you did, your odds of bagging any elk only go up to 25%. I am thinking it may be time to head out of state for me too.