manzanamangler asked, "do they scatter..."
I have not hunted that zone myself but live nearby and do have lots of buds who have. It's about as sure a thing as Calif offers as long as you are not needing to kill a Record Book buck. There are lots of lopes, most groups will have decent bucks and a lot of the groups you may come across will have really nice ones.
One friend has taken two smoker bucks thru the years buy hunting very isolated water holes close to the Nevada border. Those few lopes in there hardly ever got hunted but there were monsters to be had, they were off the map of good places, and he worked hard to get them.
Depends on what you want. You probably can go take a nice respectable antelope in the first few days, few hours maybe, or you can go, work your tail off humping the country, learn the odd places that hold a few lopes but maybe a smoker among them. Then too, sometimes a guy right off the hi-way can drive up to a Book lope and dump him in the first 10 minutes of the hunt but don't bank on that. It's a great hunt, enjoy it!
Joey
"It's all about knowing what your firearms practical limitations are and combining that with your own personal limitations!"