In my experience, opening weekend elk will still be in their herds then after the pressure hits they break up until its get cold and snowy toward later in November. My first bull was in a bachelor group but within a mile of large cow herd, that was an opening weekend hunt. Hope this helps!
Really enjoyed this one. Its something I think about as I've gotten more into archery hunting and heard a lot of stories of arrows flying and elk not recovered. I know of 3 in my friend hunter group in the last 2 years. One we saw the bull on the hoof later and he looked fine, one got bumped...