Why do I always get a whif of antelope smell when talking about them? Lol
You’ll probably see a lot more resident hunters than non resident - locals can go out every day after work if the area is within an easy drive, while nonresidents often try to cram travel, scouting and hunting into a calendar week. Guided hunts can be based out of a town or ranch, but they will be sleeping there and driving out early. Old retired guys leave the house at 4 every morning and hunt until dark. Every high school kid in town will hot rod out every afternoon driving everything from a geo metro to f350. College kids have even more time, especially if they like to hunt and can line up all fall classes into Tuesday and Thursday. At one time the first day of hunting seasons were all treated as unofficial holidays. Now, I wouldn’t doubt epidemics of faux Covid strike every fall. Lol
Antelope are often easy to see at great distance from the roads in an area, so if there’s a big buck in flat country a lot of guys will know about it - every local has a spotting scope and window mount permanently within easy reach. It’s not uncommon to see a cluster of vehicles jockeying for position as they run a big buck back and forth over a multi mile patch - true combat hunting. I stay as far away from that mess as possible, and look for country with some ups and downs, few gravel roads, some hidden little drainages not easy to see from even the dirt roads, and few two-tracks on ridge tops. If you haven’t hunted sage country much, it’s full of two-track dirt roads that are your travel routes. Two wheel drive trucks and cars with limited clearance are limited - not a lot of rocks, but deep ruts and sage growing in the middle strip.
You’ll have a great time.
