Hunted it last year. Had a good dump of snow, but alas, all those dickhead elk hunters on their quads just keep everything stirred up. You will see.. no doubt of that. And they seem to bring all the buddies they have ever known as well. And they ignore the wilderness boundaries. Try to walk and it won't be long before some dickhead on some kind of machine, quad, utv, or snowmobile will show up. We snowshoed up a big canyon near the NV border and saw a few deer...nothing big which really surprised us.. and then came a crew of dickheads. Once they saw us they pointed their machines right to us. " You guys seen any elk around here?" We had seen a shitload but told them there were none and to ##### off. 41 is some crazy #####. The elk hunters will piss you off, just wait. Plus, there are tons of landowner cow tags being given out... and they are not likely to be staying on private land. My plan would be to stay west of the highway and try to get away from all those bozos, even if you might see less animals. Or hunt south of bruneau a few miles, bang a 150 and be done with it. It's not the super tag your thinking. Just not that many big deer. We hunted it till the end last year and the NV elk hunters were saying they were seeing some big bucks way up high on their side. Even with lots of snow it was tough hunting. Coulda shot fifty 150 type of bucks.. never saw one over 170. We ate our tags.