The key is to glass, glass, and glass some more. When I'm out there, it always seems like as soon as I'm ready to quit and move on, I find deer. There have very few times when I've sat down to glass and found a buck right off the bat. Of course I'm used to hunting the Arizona desert and those deer are few and far between.
I like to scan an area and check out the good spots first, the ones that look like good deer areas. Then I go back and pick a hillside apart. I like to make a mental grid of an area and move across it with my bino's. I spend about 5 to 8 minutes per section, and I scan the sections looking for movment. After I'm done with that, I go right back over it again only this time, I'm trying to pick out shapes ie... an ear or antler or rump patch. I take alot more time the second go round. It usually takes me half a day to pick a good area apart. Now mind you, I'm not just picking random areas and plopping down, these are areas I've already scouted and that I know for sure hold deer. Also, If I'm on an early rifle hunt and I start seeing alot of doe's, I either glass higher up the ridge or a different area all together. Bucks don't seem to mingle with doe's early in the season, not big bucks anyway. When I find good bucks, they are either alone or with one or two other bucks.
If you guys are hunting out of state and don't have a chance to scout, don't be affraid to take a day or two and scout a little bit. I know this goes against our grain as hunters, we want to get out there and hunt. But, if you take a little time and get to know your area, you'll be amazed how you'll be able to find areas that hold deer. Then you can really concentrate on those one or two good areas where you found deer and really pick them apart.
One last thing, pack your lunch with you. Don't head back to camp for lunch and a nap. When a deer beds down, he won't lay there all day and not move. He'll get up, strech, poop, eat a bit and move 20 yards and bed again and he'll do it right in the middle of the day. Many a deer have met there maker because a ngood die hard hunter stuck with it and caught him streching.
Donnie