Originally Posted by spaniel

This year was my first for antelope and my lesson was that pretty much all farmers/ranchers HATE antelope. Property owners who won't give you the time of day if you want to hunt deer will give permission to shoot antelope to complete strangers and ask them to bring friends.

The area we went is not known to be particularly friendly to out-of-staters, and we had a guy pull up and ask what we were hunting (I think he was just making sure we weren't going to trespass on his property across the road from state land). Once he found out we were after antelope and not deer we had instant permission on a few thousand acres.