The deer numbers are way low in all the those areas above. Just trolling? Goose chase? She has the raffle tag why jab her Sitka?
I'd go to klickitat anyways. Hancock isn't very hepful.
As Tom Petty sang....... "You believe what you want to believe."
The Willapa Hills are home to some very nice bucks. Still.
Now, you want to do some comparisons?
Using the Washington game department 2014 harvest reports, I'm going to figure the success rate for 4 and 5 point bucks per hunter in the modern firearm season, since she is after a trophy.
The Kapowsin Tree Farm is in the Mashel Unit (654) and seems to get a lot of votes for a big buck hunt. So we'll use that for the control hunt.
Unit name and number ----- 4 pt bucks ----- 5 pt+ bucks ----- Hunters ----- Hunter success rate on 4 and 5+ pt bucks
Mashel 654 ------------------- 26 ------------------ 4 ------------- 1,181 -------------------- 2.5%
Willapa Hills 506 ------------- 15 ------------------ 6 ------------- 940 --------------------- 2.2%
Bear River 681 --------------- 7 ------------------ 6 ------------- 182 --------------------- 7.1%
Williams Cr. 673 ------------- 7 ------------------ 1 ------------- 555 --------------------- 1.4%
North River 658 ------------- 10 ------------------ 4 ------------- 425 --------------------- 3.3%
W Klickitat 578 ------------- 71 ----------------- 26 ------------ 1,524 --------------------- 6.4%
Lincoln 501 ------------------ 18 ------------------ 10 ------------ 999 --------------------- 2.8%
Skookumchuck 667 -------- 24 ------------------ 11 ------------ 1,543 -------------------- 2.2%
Deschutes 666 -------------- 11 ------------------ 10 ------------ 589 --------------------- 3.6%
Copalis 642 ------------------ 7 ------------------ 3 ------------ 248 ---------------------- 4.0%
Now as far as sheer deer numbers go W Klickitat is king and Mashel and Skookumchuck look pretty good. But when you get down to hunter success rate on big bucks, Only W Klickitat stands out. And that is a 3 pt or better unit with a few benchlegs I'd guess. The king of hunter success on big bucks is little old Bear River at almost 3 times the success rate as Mashel. And as for Williams creek, it is showing the lowest success rate on big old bucks, but the overall success rate is 26.7% with a lot of young bucks as it has been heavily logged the last few years. As those young bucks get older, some brutes will be coming out of there, I have no doubt. For comparison, the overall success rate in Mashel is 14% and W Klickitat is 13.7% And Willapa Hills over all success rate is 24.5%. Willapa Hills and Williams Creek should be getting better as the new logging improves habitat.
Bear River besides being the best % chance for a trophy buck also sports a pretty good 22.5% overall success rate.
As for Copalis, I'm gonna guess some of those big ol' Ocean Shores bucks helps the big buck rate there.