I've never supported virtually anything SFW has ever done nor will I.
Colorado isn't a good example. It also has zero spike hunts! Like was said, they have way more elk and way fewer hunters in the point pool. Utah has 80k something people in the elk points pool, not 280k, but the point was still true.
AZ is a good example of lots of opportunity vs. elk numbers in a more desert environment like we have here. They have 27K elk and 8000 big bull tags with zero spike hunting.
There's nothing good to be said about spike hunting. It f's it up for everyone who's waited 15 - 25 years for their big bull hunt and depletes the resource of 3-5 year old bulls that could be hunted with primitive weapons and way lower success rates.
As I've said for 20 years now on MM here or when ever it got started. Get rid of the spike hunts, the bulk of the rifle hunts in the rut and add 5 - 7 times the number of primitive weapons hunts and we'd all get to hunt big bulls every 5 years in stead of once in a lifetime practically.
Waiting 25 - 30 years for a premium rifle in the rut hunt, great, good for you. Waiting 25 years for an archery hunt like I did is a complete joke. Greatest hunt of my life, but this system blows for all of us but the few sfw wealth hunter types.
Cheers, Pete