I have never hunted during archery season, but I suspect they migrate to the private property as soon as it starts getting crowded. This is very thick country, and should be a good archery unit. With horses you could go north from carpenter ridge over to sinbad ridge, and a block of national forest that borsers utah CMMU JB ranch, that has very limited access, and little hunting pressure. Lots of does, and forked horn bucks on this unit, and although I have never seen a buck over about 150, there should be a few. From what I have seen,it takes lots of snow to get the elk started down the mountain to the hayfields. There are some that stay low, year round.