There are good bucks in the entiat every year. A guy i know watches 5 to 6 bucks every year and he thinks they are all 170 and up deer. My uncle has also seen the sheds the guy has gathered from the bucks. My dad went up the entiat one day this year and saw a buck that would go in the 170's, my uncle was up the entiat cutting wood and saw a few bucks that would go from the 160-170 range. My taxidermist also told me yesterday that he was taking a guy up the entiat with an archery tag and saw a couple handfuls of 160-180 deer. The deer are there most people just aren't looking in the right spots.
First of all, I would like to see some pics of all these 170+ deer, yes I know none of these people have a camera but they "think" they are all 170+. Most people see a four pt that is even with the ears and immediately that is a 180, I call BS, what they are looking at is a normal 140-160 buck. I'm sure there are a few bucks in the Entiat that are 180+ but finding them on any given day (
on public land) is not easy. Then the number of bigger bucks has declined substantially in the last 5 years.
