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I tried to post this earlier but I failed. 270 short's account of the events are very inaccurate and I will not address all of the problems with his 3rd hand version of the events other than to say that 3 very accomplished hunters looked at this buck with me and they would all beg to differ about the score being a mid 70 buck at best, I was indeed out of the vehicle and on a stalk when these events began and I did not shoot an antelope on the hunt. I saw another buck that would probably have scored a little more but this was the buck I chose to pursue because he was the trophy I wanted, my choice, and I did hunt the four days after the incident without ever finding the buck again.

I think it is nice that the game and fish try to explain this behavior by saying it is the only time available, well I was out there in July and August and that seemed to be just as good of a time as any to me, no hunting going on, easier to clasify the does from the fawns and the bucks are easy. I spoke to a field supervisor last night and he informed me that they know the size of their herd and what the sucess rate is going to be so this survey wasn't for that biological reason hhhmmmm. Something you may have missed in my explaination is that just because they were doing a survey doesn't mean that they didn't commit a crime. I witnessed harassment of a hunter and the game, there is no reason to chase and circle for at least 3 miles so they can count to 5; one buck 3 does and a fawn! The survey during the hunt is truly just ignorance and poor decision making on their part and a good excuse to keep the game on edge. If you believe that the antelope didn't run out of the country and they are easy to find anyway, well I think you should try to hunt a true trophy that has been chased around for a while by an aircraft, seen 20 vehicles a day for the last week and gone into the trees for safe keeping and get back to me. The simple truth is I witnessed a crime and I want citations written and the Judge to make the decision on the facts, that is my pursuit, ignorance and politics are not enough reason to let this contionue to happen.

If the counts are done during the rut then the week before and the week after the season would be more accurate. If the Game and Fish counts during the season, then they send out hunter survey cards, how do they know if the antelope was killed before or after the survey was done?

This is a true story that happened to me on September 8, 2010 at 7:15 am in Unit 10 Arizona. I have applied for an Antelope tag in Arizona unit 10 exclusively for the last 35 years, had accumulated 22 bonus points. 2010 was the lucky year, I had finally been drawn. Scouted for 21 days, found what I considered to be the trophy that I wanted on the wall. The season began and I hunted exclusively for this buck for 5 days and had one sighting and no chance yet. On Wednesday morning I found the buck I was looking for, put myself in position to let him feed over the ridge and would have been on him ready for the kill and of all things to happen an airplane flying very low comes right over the top of me and the Antelope took off running as fast as they can. The airplane then circled the running buck and his 4 does, then chased them farther again still at full speed, circled them again, chased them farther and circled again, never to be seen again. I have no idea how far they chased them but I could no longer see the antelope and the plane was so far away I could barely hear it now. Well I am now mad, I went to the top of the ridge where I found that I got cell phone service and called Operation Game Theif. The operator on the line asked me if I could stay on hold for a minute, "sure", when she came back on the line she informed me that there was no problem but that the Arizona Game and Fish Department was doing their annual Antelope Survey and not to worry about it. I told her that I wanted to speak to an officer asap. The officer called me only after I had called back 10 hours later and again requested to speak to an officer, he said "So I heard you got buzzed this morning". Long story even longer, I don't care who it was that flew the airplain or what they were doing it was Hunter Harassment and Harassment of game. I want the appropriate people given a ticket so they can answer to a Judge. Am I wrong in this situation? Why are they doing a survey in the middle of a season? Please share your thoughts and expierences...