I think he shot it with a muzzy in a muzzy season, not a rifle season. The rifle tag doesn't open in 45 until the 15th. The unit wide 45 muzzy tag opened on the 1st. Saw a few of the hunters while I was elk hunting in there. Most said they hadn't seen any good bucks yet. I saw easily 5 shooters in my few days in the unit.
Kinda late to make a prediction, but I say this year unit 45 will produce more monster bucks because of the early weather. I had a rifle tag in the unit back in 2004 and it was 90 degrees the whole first 2 weeks of hunt and the deer were not moving at all. Got better towards the end of the hunt when the weather dropped into the 40's and 50's by the end of October.
This year, it is already in the low teens up there and now has a 1/2 foot of snow.