Anyone ever find trophy quality game in areas your would never expect it?

[Elite]

So long story short, I have always hiked way down in river valleys and far from any road or quad trails to set cameras and hunt thinking I would find more mature game.

I was driving late at night and noticed a massive moose in the ditch of a major highway. So I decided to shed hunt it in the spring and found a pile of moose sheds and deer sheds not far from the highway and some were large.

So I put some cams up and have got the biggest elk I have ever got on cam and a few mature moose.

I just can’t make sense how that area along a major highway and an area that has atv/dirtbike trails everywhere holds mature game?


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[MuleyFever]

Shhh...

 

[Hnthrdr]

The areas are really busy, but maybe they aren’t busy off trail or there is gnarly terrain or private where the game can seek refuge, who knows? But they may be else where during season which is how they are getting big

 

[Baddog]

Maybe they figured out dirt bikes aren’t trying to kill them and just let them ride on by while napping in the brush…

 

[Steve300xcw]

For a long time now, folks have been killing big shit outta lil pockets that all the real hunters go by as they are on their way to go deep into the brush.

This isnt anything new

 

[Steve300xcw]

Maybe they figured out dirt bikes aren’t trying to kill them and just let them ride on by while napping in the brush…

 

[Elite]

Maybe they figured out dirt bikes aren’t trying to kill them and just let them ride on by while napping in the brush…

I was wondering that also but there is a lot of hunters with quads but I am assuming they quad way deep into the bush and don’t hunt the start of the area maybe


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[KenLee]

I've killed so many deer close in to subdivisions that I abbreviate their first and middle names to ""CC". For example, "Country Club Pete".