Two of my favorite sayings heard in Idaho:
Save 100 elk...shoot a wolf.
Three legged wolves don't kill no elk.

My personal observation is that the wolves have changed hunting. The elk in our area have changed their behavior. You rarely see lone elk and you don't hear elk very often. We have seen the bulls stick with their herds after the rut. We think it's a safety thing. The elk also move around a lot more than they used to.

I do think there are less elk and hunting them has become more difficult. When the pack comes into one of our drainages the elk immediately leave. They come back a day or two after we stop seeing or hearing wolves.

It doesn't help that a breeding pair of wolves was introduced near our area 10 or so years ago.

On the plus side everyone knows the wolves were introduced in this area and hunting pressure has plummeted.