Any elk in the Entiat??

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wrangler:
elk? hmmmm thats a long shot, maybe a few strays but id be skeptical till i saw one and if i did id swear it was the ONLY one. however, i have been seeing more and more rat- i mean whitetails..... they're like the plague.

Slider:
Their are hardly any a few in the Chawawa. The Game Dept does not want Elk in the Entiat!!! They are trying to manage it for Trophy Bucks. Hence the any Elk season? Not because they are trying to get more money? Does that make sense? Good Luck

jackelope:
we asked the bio last year...he said in 10 years as the bio, he's never seen any.

wrangler:
uhhhhhh 'the game dept is managing the entiat for trophy mule deer' :o dude, are you high? you obviously havn't watched the permit quotas go through the roof last few years, hell just look at the numbers between this year compared to last. that along with the lack of enforcement on the poachers is enough to have completely flushed this unit down the crapper. the game dept is too busy watching the money from the enitat roll in to relize that it's being (already been) destroyed by poor management practices. you couldn't have picked a worse unit in the state to have refered to as a 'unit managed by the wdfw for trophy bucks'. one day those bucks will stop coming outa the gpw because there won't be any left thanks to the game dept.

shag:
I wonder how many does were shot durning the late season last year? Also with more tags aren't more "culls" possibly being taken. It seems to me that alot of people are drivin the roads just shootin any good buck. As a hunter if you want bigger deer you gotta let the "good"bucks get "great!!! Not all hunters have the trophy mentality. That's why every year they settle for meat or get trigger happy on the last weekend. Unless you are willing to harvest only trophy bucks or does or freak monster 2x2's that are bad for the gene pool than you really aren't doing your part to help create trophy bucks.

Several years in the past have had a better migration going uring the last week of the regular season than the late hunt. Because of mother nature. So I've been told.

Seems to me that that hunter's themselves do more to ruin trophy deer than the game dept. I've had several years in my hunting career where I passed on over 15 buck a season. Including several "good" bucks a season. Why? because I personaly wanta shoot great bucks. Ate tag soup too many times!

Also what about the guys that shoot 3 or so small bucks a year? Do you turn them in? I will. In a heart beat. there are alot of hunters out there givin "us" a black eye and shooting "us" in the foot. They are *censored*'s and I love to spit some beechnut in there eyes!

I plan on shooting only a "great" buck with my late tag. For me a 170 or bigger is my plan. I will try as hard as I can to attain that. If I can't I'll shoot a doe on the last day. This will be hard since I've never shot a mulie. And 160 class bucks can be very tempting.

So unless you don't do your part than you can't really complain about the game dept.? i'd love to see all of washington become a 2 pt min state for whitetail and blacktail. And 3 pt or better for muledeer. people would bitch for a couple years but then when they start killing bigger bucks all will be good.

Like I said I wonder how many late season mulie tag holders end up killing a doe? Thin the heard. less competition for food is always a good thing. IMO

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