Man, my experience in 1 zero point unit over a couple of years has been vastly different than others. We stayed at an Airbnb in town due to the fact that my 89 year old grandfather was hunting with us. Opening morning my dad and I in my truck, Grandpa and uncle in grandpas truck all drive on same main road through unit, didn’t quite make it to where we wanted to be at first light and watched a buck chase a doe across the road on some state land. Park the trucks get out, found that buck and doe, no shot, they headed down and joined up with another band and we played a cat and mouse game with them for about 1/2 hr to an hour before they end up on a piece of private. Back to the trucks and head on up the road to where we originally planned to hunt. By this time it’s 1 1/2 hrs after first light and there’s a buck and 10 does out there feeding, dad sneaks up to the top of a knoll and knocks down his buck. Turn around and across the road on another piece of BLM another band with a small buck comes over a rise. Dad go take care of your buck, I’ll go try and get a doe. Over the next rise and they’re already gone. Oh well back to help dad, game warden is here now and so are uncle and grandpa. Game warden checks tags, I’m glassing and there’s another group of antelope about 1/2 mile out, uncle and I head out and there’s a nice buck in the group. Uncle has no shot so I knock him down. 2 bucks down on public land on opener. Get both bucks back to the trucks. Dad and Grandpa head one way now and uncle and I head another. Grandpa gets his 1st doe, uncle and I play cat and mouse with some more and he misses a decent buck. It’s about noon so we head back to town. Eat lunch and check out some other areas where we hadn’t seen many antelope in the evening, still none there. Day 2 we are a little behind schedule again in the morning, right at 1st light, nice buck 20 yards off the road on BLM, hurry up let’s get over this rise. There he is 50 yds out, uncle shoots another buck down. Text Dad to let him know, he responds with hurry and come help us get Grandpas buck skinned too. Rest of morning we found 2 more does. Headed back for a nice antelope tenderloin dinner late that afternoon/evening. Day 3 cold windy and miserable, antelope didn’t seem to be moving at all, we were hardly even seeing any on private land driving between tracts of land. Dad and Grandpa manage to find a couple groups of does bedded in secluded spots throughout the day and fill their remaining 3 doe tags, uncle and I play cat and mouse with more but end up empty handed for the day and quickly tire of burning gas going from one section to the next looking for does in miserable weather, tomorrow will be better weather let’s have a nice relaxing afternoon. Day 4, all 4 of us pile into 1 truck. Only 2 doe tags left. Heading out to our usual hunting grounds and come across a doe and buck out on state land. Sneak up to snow drift fence, makes a nice rest. Doe goes down, head out to gut her and another doe comes walking up our way, uncle takes her and we are tagged out by about 8:30 on day 4 with 12 antelope. In total we had 1 stalk buggered by other hunters and probably 2-3 times where animals we were moving on crossed onto private land. All in all a fun hunt and lots of good meat. All 4 bucks were just about clones and mine scored 68” so he’s not going book but he will look good on the wall. So in my opinion, if you want to hunt antelope don’t waste 10-15 years saving points, draw what you can and go hunt. There’s no shortage of animals, the action is usually fast and they taste great.
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