Hunting controlled rifle units with a bow is VERY popular in Id. Personally, I would hunt a unit that has good bull/cow ratios w/some quality before I hunted a controlled unit. The controlled units get sooo much pressure that the bugling activity is affected tremendiously. I drew a controlled unit in 04 and got there a week early, rode horses and glassed for 5 solid days. Every trailhead had no room left for another vehicle and every hunter I talked to told me they hadn't heard a bugle for over a week. The elk were there but would not talk because of the pressure. I heard more bugles each day during the first 4 days of rifle season than I heard during 5 days of scouting. A unit that had Approx. 190 tags for rifle, probably had 600-800 archery hunters in it. The elk really calmed down after the opening weekend of the rifle hunt.