I was alone when I shot my bull this year on the opener in 39. He was a broken up average 5 pt, so I'll spare the pic. I shot him from the top of a steep(it's idaho) draw. As I walked down the top of one side of the draw to get to my bull, which lay where I shot him 380 yards down hill, I heard a commotion in the middle of the draw, which was choked with brush and heavily timbered near the opposite ridgeline. It was steep enough that I had to jump up on a stump to see down in. There was about a dozen head of elk working there way out. 3 or 4 where small bulls. I was thinking about my kids who both decided to skip the opener for Halloween social events. Then I heard more commotion, and most of the rest of the herd decided to head out. In all there where approx. 100 head that came out, all within 250 yards of the stump I was one. They all headed through a small trail where they went one at a time over the top of a ridge so I could see all of them. I would guess that 30-35 where bulls. Nothing bigger than a few decent 5pts, except two where real neat non-typcials including one with clubs full of spikes on each side. I actually vido taped some of them just to rub it in to my kids.
Well my kids hunted 4 days and were into bulls every day and actually missed a nice 5 and a big 6, due to misreading the rangefinder.
My very long point is that while Idaho may not have a lot of those Utah and Arizona 400 inch monsters, we still have LOTS of elk despite the wolves, you just have to work harder to find them as they don't feed out in the open much anymore. All in all our group of 3 saw over 200 head and 40+ bulls in 4 days.
They where all up in No Tellum Creek, since I know you might ask.