I agree with your comments for the most part, is there risk regarding increases in firearm taxation (perhaps separate from PR which I wholly support) based on who's in office? Is there a potential path to increase taxation on firearms to prevent ownership? Seems a great and sneaky way to...
Ok gotcha, you'll be pretty much in the heart of the badlands there near the painted canyon. Such a strange landscape, it's very open with little dense forest or vegetation but a maze of valleys and ripples. Good luck with the hunt, there are a lot of nice bulls out there! Do you have any...
I worked out of Killdeer back in 2014/2015, private access will be an issue but I did see a bachelor group of dandies up in the area north of the Killdeer mountains - pretty much between there and the Little Miss. breaks. Not sure what the boundaries of your hunt are.
Hunting potlatch will be your best bet around there although there is also some good FS and state land interspersed; 10A is a strange unit. I used to fight fire out of Elk River, there are miles and miles of road access which is good and bad. Elk are out there but alot of the land is re-prod...