I prefer to spot and stalk. Sitting in a blind on a water hole is BORING!!!!! Very effective but mind numbing. Antelope have short memories. If they bust you they will have forgot that you exist once out of site. Go right back at them. You can chase the same heard around all day if they stay on the property you are hunting. If they don't want to leave it almost takes an act of God to get them to leave.

Decoying can be effective but you need the right goat in the right mindframe. You will scare them off about 98% of the time with a decoy. A few situations to look for. If you see a small buck trailing a herd try to get between the herd and small guy and stay out of sight. Eventually the herd buck is going to chase off the little guy. When he does try to get between him and the does. As he is coming back to his does pop up the decoy. This is way more effective than just sneaking up on a herd and popping up the decoy.

Follow a herd until they bed down. Once they bed down sneak in as close as you can get and wait. If the does get up and begin milling/feeding the buck will eventually get up and go round them up. When he gets up pop up a doe decoy. This, by far, has been my most successful decoying tactic. Takes a while to get the right situation but when you do it works about every time.

As for the gear, bring a pair of heavy leather gloves and knee pads. The carpenter/contracter knee pads that are hard plastic are what you want. There is going to be prickly pear cactus everywhere and you don't want to have to watch where you are crawling. A camelbak is also handy.