burntmuch
OK - I even hate to tell you this, but you gotta remember I am old and i live in the west where there is still a lot of public land - so finding a hunting place is not as difficult for some. We do not do the remote hunting camp any longer, I know we are missing a whole lot of BS and some quality smells, but out camp is our own homes.
When people ask me where I hunt, our comment is really never know until we get in the truck and head out and since we go out in the dark and come in - in the dark we really do not no where we were or are at, so don't ask us. It is just my truck has been everywhere around here and it knows how to get there and how to get back on it's own.
Most big time hunters around here leave the area and go to more rugged areas - so the local elk and deer really, especially elk really do not have BIG time pressure on them - course most of them are not trophy size either.
So to make a long story short we drive maybe 30 miles to some great elk hunt areas and drive home... if a whitetail happens to screw up and show up then it is fair game....
This is our hunting camp and pack animal (the one without horns) - and pack is all it does - it is still foot work to get to the animal. Even though the Palouse Ranger district is one of the most roaded districts around...