5b also has the best success rate of the state 2 years in a row muzzy. I dont think you could go wrong with either hunt,but it seems as if weather has more effect of the outcome in the garden , in 5 there is still alot of country that will not get hunted,along with only 5 tags probably cant be a better situation for being in the best bucks of the unit with no one but you to hunt them.soon my wife,brother and I with max pt could hunt that unit 3 years in a row. Is the best buck in the garden better than the best one in 5, do better bucks move in from oregon, or from nevada. there isnt any units up there in any state that is what it used to be and will you shoot a 160+ buck or will you go to the end for a 190+ or tag soup. there is to me quit a difference between a fun hunt and a trophy hunt,to me it matters where I am hunting that makes a choice of what I would pass on or take including the state, my home state of ca. is more of a fun hunt catagory, and being alone in m5 is hard to ignore.