LAST EDITED ON Oct-19-08 AT 09:46PM (MST)[p]Keep after it, try glassing more and hiking less. Let your eyes do the walking. Find a nice secluded hillside or canyon, preferably one with no road in the bottom or on the tops of the ridges, it should have some good feed like bitterbrush, service berry, snowberry, mountain mahogany,sagebrush, etc. Also there needs to be some cover, maybe some patches of aspens, cedars, or timber. Water can be good two. Sneak in there quietly without skylining yourself, find a good spot to glass and sit it out until you see a buck you can stalk, or until it gets absolutely too dark to see. It sounds like you have covered a lot of country, so you have probably seen a spot or two that look good. Choose one of those spots and try glassing there during primetime, if your evening of glassing is not productive, move on to another spot for the next morning or evening. Remember less walking, more glassing. Let your eyes do the walking. Glass until you are sure there are no deer in the area, then do it all over again, and again, and again until it is too dark to see. The longer you keep after it the better your odds get. Good luck.
Dax