I did not harvest an antelope, nor even shoot at one. However I feel it was a successful hunt. It was our first time to the area. We got camp set up and scouted out several groups of animals a couple days prior to the opener. I decided to set up a ground blind over a water hole and wait out a herd that was regularly in the area. We only had a couple days to hunt, but as each day went by the herd would get closer and closer. The day before we had to leave, the herd was within 100 yards and closing when two guys got out of their car from the road and made their version of a 'stalk' on the same group! Of course the antelope ran off. I went to talk to the hunters and they said they saw my ground blind and knew that I was hunting it, but didnt care! Oh well...what are you gonna do?!? That sucked, but all in all it was a great time. I got to explore a new area, saw alot of animals, met some really nice people, had a great camp set up, and town was close enough you could easily replenish the ice supply as needed. One day we needed to do some laundy (we had been out nearly two weeks on our Sandhill safari fishing and hunting). It was a sunday morning. From inside the laundry mat I opened a door that led to a bar full of people! Only in Crawford, NE have I been able to get a cold beer, some air conditioning (it was mid Aug. and near 100 degrees), and do your laundry all at the same time...on a sunday morning!! In hindsight, I should have gotten out of the blind to attempt stalking, but felt confident enough that eventually they would come to water. Im sure they would have, but just ran out of time. My buddy had some within my bow range, but he shoots traditional only and was just out of his range. Oh well...still had a ton of fun being in antelope country!
