Palouse Tag Holders - Too Bad!

[jjhunter]

Definitely property dependent, much of the best is off-limits and not hunted much, if at all.   There have been 170" plus whitetails the last several years in Whitman country, but you won't see them on here.

If you draw a tag and aren't local, you won't get to hunt those bucks.  If you are local, you most likely won't get to hunt those bucks....

[fishunt247]

130" would be very generous for the typical buck with the late Palouse tag.

Very much so. Whitman county gets 5 mentions (of the 393 entries) in the typical rifle category in the lastest WA book, the biggest being a 156" buck from 1999. Granted, there are a lot of people who couldn't give a rip about the WA books and don't enter anything. Just a reference point. I have seen pictures of one legitimate giant whitetail that came out of the general rifle down there in the last couple years. Not doubting that there are giants out there, somewhere...jj is probably right, though those properties aren't anywhere near commonplace.