First antelope success
01-24-2010, 06:36 AM
#11
Fork Horn
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: New Brighton, MN
Posts: 480
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.
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.
01-25-2010, 07:41 AM
#12
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 1,320
Thats about as vague and generalized as it gets. Unless you knew everyone in the area there is no way to possibly know this.
In my family there are landowners of significant hunting land. I suspect that there is a very very short list of peole who have stopped to ask to hunt that have been turned down.
Its "non-factoids" like this that keep people from asking permission.
Last edited by skb2706; 01-25-2010 at 08:35 AM.
