Here's my guess. Because they are Nov 1-18 and modern elk in those areas will be Nov 7-18. So it's not like there won't be other hunters out there. Also, most are low harvest units to begin with. But, that is kind of a trade off because some of the bucks I've seen in there have been really big bodied and had antlers with a lot of mass--not necessarily lots of points or wide, but still some big bucks.