How do you guys find deer?

[Mulie87]

Sot, glass. No deer then move, sit and glass some more. Have patients. Binos and spotting scopes are your friends in open country. In the woods find sign and set up a tree stand or blind. It may take time, but you’ll eventually have success.

[Onewhohikes]

The best way to find deer is go to another state say Idaho, Colorado or Montana. They will literally be right along side the road!!

[nwwanderer]

Bango may have been around the block an extra time or two!!  Come set on my porch any early morning or evening for a simple whitetail and who knows what else lesson.

[lokidog]

Look out my window, drive to the mail shed, mow a lawn (almost got run over by a buck yesterday), drive to the boat ramp, go for a walk....

 

Good luck

[fishnfur]

and kick them off the front porch.  Loki's scouting tactics are a bit different than elsewhere.

A whole bunch of good answers.  Ultimately, it seems to me, finding an area with several or many tree rubs will give you a good location to hunt come late October.  Being able to identify fresh tracks, fresh poo, and recently browsed areas are necessary for hunting earlier in the season - you'll at least be in a currently used area.  Hunters who have been successful over many seasons become much better at just knowing what a good spot looks/feels like as they work through the woods.  Then it's time to slow way down and give the animals a chance to move.  It is very easy to pass right by animals, completely unaware of their presence when you're moving too fast.

[lokidog]

and kick them off the front porch.  Loki's scouting tactics are a bit different than elsewhere.

Could be. 

[sawyer]

This forum aint big enough for the both of us, MilesSawyer

[Blacktail_Slayer]

The best resources for biology and habitat are research papers that can found using Google Scholar and also from the Mule Deer Working Group https://www.wafwa.org/committees___groups/mule_deer_working_group/publications/

Book List that works for any deer hunting:

Blacktail Trophy Tactics 2- By Boyd Iverson

Trophy Blacktails: The Science of the Hunt- By Scott Haugen

Mapping Trophy Bucks- By Brad Herndon

Hunting Open-Country Mule Deer- By Dwight Schuh

Mule Deer: A Handbook for Utah Hunters and Landowners- By Dennis Austin

Mule Deer Strategies: A Handbook of Hunting Techniques- By Walt Prothero

Mature Buck Success- By Design- Jeff Sturgis

All Weather Whitetails- By Jeff Sturgis

Whitetail Success- By Design- By Jeff Sturgis

If you ever decide to hunt desert mule deer.
Deer of the Southwest- By Jim Heffelfinger

Every podcast you have to jump around and find out which episodes are going to help you. Here is my list.

Whitetail Habitat Solutions (Youtube)- Lots of info about and how to hunt deer.

MSU Deer University podcast

Jay Scott Outdoors podcast

Mule Deer Foundation - Talking Mule Deer Podcast

Nine Finger Chronicles Podcast

EHUNTR podcast

Wired To Hunt podcast

[Blacktail_Slayer]

A couple youtube podcasts I did to share with other hunters.

[Bango skank]

I know I need to find where they travel between bedding/food/water and they like cover when doing so.

This is so commonly repeated i think in large part because most whitetail hunting is done in the midwest / east where there is a ton of agriculture broken up by limited amounts of timber / bedding areas, and there is a lot of hard mast too, so the bedding and feeding areas are very clearly defined.  When it comes to whitetail here in the national forest where there is very little agriculture around, "feeding areas" are basically everywhere.  There are big bucks in the mountains that never see agriculture of any sort.  Their entire home range is a feeding area, good browse everywhere, including where they like to bed.  So to think that you can set up between a bedding area and a feeding area with these deer in these mountains is a pipe dream.  Best just to focus on bedding areas and natural travel routes, despite the lack of a well defined feeding destination.  Id suggest checking out dan infalts stuff on whitetail bedding areas, particularly his hill country bedding stuff.  Some good insight there.