Came home today, it was the pits! This was my first time hunting a new unit and it was really bad. I went up Thursday after scouting a lot this summer. Quite a few archery hunters there and no one had anything. On Friday the local hunters started pouring in and it was really a mob scene. I totally changed my game plane and opening am I hunted an area right at timberline(about 10,000"). I got there an hour before daylight and waited to see if I could hear any bugling. Nothing....just silence. Hunted all day, walking quite a few miles. Saw no fresh sign and nothing. Saw several wallows that looked like it had been several weeks since anything was there. It was also very hot, 80"s in the daytime & 30 at night.
Several hunters I talked to were locals and they said it had been this way for a couple of years. Was checked by a Warden and he said he had not checked an animal all day.
I have a fallback plan and will check it out Tuesday am. That's what happens when you hunt a totally new area, you just don't know, even with lots of scouting.
