As you know, buying the tag just gets you started. DIY hunts are going to be as expensive as a guided hunt was a few years ago. With diesel at $5-6/gal I spent $2k this past fall just in travel expense on my SD hunt.
At 69 years old I'm in a real quandary as to what I'm going to do. Started buying WY points for antelope, deer & elk 14 years ago for myself & two grandsons. Plan was for us to go on 3 good hunts when they got out of school & settled into adult life. These were going to wind me up on western hunts. Antelope & deer population has been dismal at best the past few years, and had planned on using those hunts to also scout areas for elk. Can't hit the mountains like I use to, as the days of me hoisting a 70# backpack on and heading out for a week or two are long past. Don't know what to do.... Almost to point of throwing hands up and saying screw it, ain't gonna happen.